 | Letters of Ayn Rand
Release Date: February 1, 1997The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century. For there is no separation between Ayn Rand the vibrant, creative woman and Ayn Rand the intellectual dynamo, the rational thinker, who was also a passionately committed champion of individual freedom.These remarkable letters begin in 1926, with a note from the twenty-year-old Ayn Rand, newly arrived in Chicago ...
 |  | DIARY AND LETTERS OF A WORLD WAR I FIGHTER PILOT, THE
Publication Date: November 2008This is a first-hand account of the author's grandfather, Guy Mainwaring Knocker and his experiences as a pilot in the R.F.C. in the First World War written as a series of letters and diary entries.He wrote letters virtually every day to his family, while he trained in England and was in service in France, and often illustrated them with little sketches.Guy was a gifted artist, particularly pencil and pen and ink, and also an excellent photographer.He flew with No 65 (Fighter) Squadron that was formed in June, 1916 as a fighter squadron, and flew to France in M...
|  | On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage
Publication Date: December 1, 2012Life on board the world's most famous ship, in the words of the passengers themselvesUtilizing many documents not seen since 1912, here Titanic's passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of the disaster entirely in their own words via the texts of letters, postcards, diary entries, and memoirs that were written before, during, and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the presailing documents were written by people who later lost their lives in the sinking, and represent the last communications these people ever had with their fri...
|  | The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
Publication Date: September 29, 2012| ISBN-10: 0199558221 | ISBN-13: 978-0199558223Sir Philip Sidney is one of the most important authors of the Elizabethan era.He died at the age of 31 and in that time wrote the first great English novel, the Arcadia; the first major Petrarchan sonnet-sequence in English, the Astrophil and Stella; and the first important English critical text, the Defence of Poesy. His short life was extraordinarily eventful.He was the son of the Viceroy of Ireland and the nephew and heir of the Queen's favourite, the Earl of Leicester.At 17 he began a three-year tour o...
|  | Kids' Letters to President Obama
Release Date: April 14, 2009Barack Obama has inspired millions of people around the world–and an unwavering chorus of those admirers are children. This delightfully charming collection includes more than two hundred letters that kids have written to President Obama. Some of these messages are humorous, some are heartwarming, all of them are sincere–making this volume the perfect gift for any occasion.The children ask questions: “Why did you want to be president?” “Do you think you could pass a law making chocolate a vegetable in our country?” They gi...
|  | First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson
Release Date: September 2, 2008“Brings together not only an extraordinary set of documents by and about the postbaseball Robinson but, through these letters, an extraordinary account of the times.” —Gerald Early, BookForumJackie Robinson’s courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the civil rights struggle, but he was a fighter off the field as well. In First Class Citizenship, Michael G. Long unearths a remarkable trove of Robinson’s correspondence with such towering political figures as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Ly...
|  | Cicero: Select Letters (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Publication Date: July 31, 1980| ISBN-10: 0521295246 | ISBN-13: 978-0521295246Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero's letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and in the upper forms at schools, and offers them a representative introduction to one of the most varied and most important literary correspondences in any language. In choosing letters for inclusion the editor concentrates on Cicero as a man and writer and on his relat...
|  | Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: February 27, 1999| ISBN-10: 1551111756 | ISBN-13: 978-1551111759| Edition: 1 In Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Elizabeth Hamilton engages directly with the major issues of her day, from colonialism and the "New Philosophy" to the present state of literature and female education. Satirizing British society and incorporating material from a wide range of the orientalists' new translations of Indian writing, Hamilton's book is a key document in the debates which raged in England over the British role in India. It remains one of the most interesting p...
|  | Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956
Release Date: March 1, 1996It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose style that became his trademark.The letters in this volume, written between 1940, when Kerouac was a freshman at college, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, his friendships with Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and William S. Burroughs, his travels, love affairs, and literary appre...
|  | The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876: Volume 3
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James (Book 3) The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a gap in literary studies today by presenting in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters and addressing a remarkably wide range of topics, this edition is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of James, the European novel and modern literature, and of American and English literature, culture, and criticism.Written betwee...
|  | The Correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777
Publication Date: June 20, 1992In this historically significant volume, America's ranking botany biographers present all 602 letters known to exist that were written to or from John Bartram, one of the most important scientific figures of the eighteenth century. ...
|  | Letter to a Hostage
Publication Date: January 1, 1999The acclaimed aviator and adventurer wrote Letter to a Hostage for his friend Léon Werth while waiting in Portugal for a passage to the United States, having just escaped the terrors of war-torn France. Saint-Exupéry's observations on the aimless existence of his fellow exiles in Lisbon filled with parties, gambling and spies leads him to examine the nature of existence itself. ...
|  | Words That Changed A Nation: The Most Celebrated and Influential Speeches of Barack Obama
Publication Date: February 5, 2012“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy—tonight is your answer.” Barack Obama Words That Changed a Nation is a concise collection of the eleven most significant speeches of Barack Obama—the words that defined his campaign, the words that made history, the words that inspired a nation. ...
|  | Poems and Letters (Michelangelo) (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 18, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics A new translation of poetry and letters from one of the most influential artists in history The iconic Renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti was also a prolific and gifted poet. This groundbreaking collection presents verses, intense and passionate, that capture Michelangelo's eroticism and spirituality, alongside letters that provide fascinating insight into his family relations and day-to-day life as a working artist. The result is a revealing portrait of a towering figure of the Renaissance. ...
|  | The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876: Volume 2
Publication Date: November 1, 2009| Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James (Book 2) The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of topics—from James’s own life and literary projects to broader questions about art, literature, and criticism—this edition is an indispensable resource for students of James and of American and ...
|  | The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914 (Civil War America)
Release Date: December 9, 2003| Series: Civil War America Best known as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg and the commanding officer of the troops who accepted the Confederates' surrender at Appomattox, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) has become one of the most famous and most studied figures of Civil War history. After the war, he went on to serve as governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. The first collection of his postwar letters, this book offers important insights for understanding Chamberlain's later years and his place in chronicling the war.The letters i...
|  | The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
Release Date: October 28, 2008 The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, they counted among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy. The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged siblings through their own unabashed correspondence. Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitfords constitute a superb social and historical chronicle and an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring r...
|  | The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1: Travels, 1850 Version
Release Date: June 1, 2009David Thompson's Travels is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. A distinguished literary work, the tale spans the years from 1784 to 1897 and extends from the Great Lakes to the Rockies, from Athabasca to the Missouri. This is the first volume of an ambitious project to bring together all of Thompson's writings for a new generation of readers. ...
|  | William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
Publication Date: February 15, 2010| Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book An important figure in early American science and letters, William Bartram (1739-1823) has been known almost exclusively for his classic book, Travels. William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design presents new material in the form of art, letters, and unpublished manuscripts. These documents expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic.Part One, the correspondence, includes letters to and from Bartram's family, friends, and peers, establishing his d...
|  | The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
Release Date: November 30, 1999"I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in The Greatest Generation about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have today--the people I called the Greatest Generation--it was my way of saying thank you. I felt that this tribute was long overdue, but I was not prepared for the avalanche of letter...
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