 | Letters of William Gaddis
Publication Date: February 19, 2013Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98), author of The Recognitions and J R,shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection ofhis letters a revelation: an intimate look at one of the great literaryminds of the 20th century.Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and ending in Sept...
 |  | 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...
|  | Ask Graham
Publication Date: May 1, 2011Finally, Graham's many U. S. fans can laugh at—and benefit from—his drily hilarious Daily Telegraph advice columns "Remember that sleeping with friends is lazy and selfish: we don't cook our pets just because we're hungry and they're sitting right by the oven." —Graham on troublesome relationships "Dogs and DIY are where relationships end up, not where they start." —Graham on looking for love "Stay on the moral high ground—it's much easier to swing a baseball bat from there." —Graham on ...
|  | In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America (Early American Studies)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Series: Early American Studies In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.Everyday letter writing demonstrated that the blessings of success in the early modern world could come less...
|  | The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years
Publication Date: April 16, 2013Recently a long-lost journal belonging to Dracula author Bram Stoker was discovered in his great-grandson dusty attic. The text of this stunningfind, written between 1871 and 1878, mostly in his native Dublin, will captivate scholars of Gothic literature and Dracula fans alike.Painstakingly transcribed and researched, the journal offers intriguing new insights into the complex behind Dracula. ...
|  | A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: March 27, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics The letters of one of the world’s greatest composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—seen variously as a child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic artist, and cultural icon—is among the most written-about of all composers. This fascinating set of his letters offers a new understanding of his life story—his marriage, compositions, performances, occasional money worries, opinions of fellow musicians, and complex relationship with his father—and a revealing portrait of both the man and the musician. ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 17, 1998| ISBN-10: 0192839071 | ISBN-13: 978-0192839077| Edition: New edition A. S. L. Farquharson's translation was originally published in 1944, as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work.In this volume, Farquharson's work is brought up to date and supplied with an introduction and notes for the student and general reader.A selection of lively letters from Marcus to his tutor Fronto, most of which date from his earlier years, is also included. ...
|  | Letters to a Spiritual Seeker
Publication Date: November 21, 2005"With quotable lines on every page, this is an important and affecting addition to the Thoreau shelf." —BooklistThe writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature, Thoreau sought to "lead a fresh, simple life with God." In 1848 a seeker named Harrison Blake, yearning for a spiritual life of his own, asked the then-fledgling writer for guidance. The fifty letters that ensued, collected here for the first time in their own volume by Thoreau specialist Bra...
|  | Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blcher, 1936-1968
Publication Date: November 17, 2000Here is the life story of two exceptional people, two Germans who fled their country for different reasons. It is the story of their life in exile in Paris and in New York, their dependence on each other and deepening love, their continued exchange of ideas, Arendt's teaching and writing, her involvement with Jewish life in Europe and in Israel, and Blucher's years at The New School and at Bard College. It is also an important document of the '30s in Germany and France, of World War II, and the post-war life in ravaged European cities. Meanwhile, there is l...
|  | Farewell, Godspeed: The Greatest Eulogies of Our Time
Release Date: December 23, 2003Farewell, Godspeed is a remarkable collection of eulogies for some of the most notable figures of our time, delivered by the people who knew them best. In the words used to eulogize the great and celebrated men and women of the world—sometimes reverential, sometimes funny, always poignant—we come as close as perhaps we ever will to seeing the warm humanity beneath their public personas.Cyrus M. Copeland has gathered some of the greatest of these writings about artists, scientists, authors, public servants, entertainers, and others who have capture...
|  | The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940
Publication Date: December 7, 2001 The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down to us from that notable age of barbarism, the twentieth century. Benjamin and Adorno formed a uniquely powerful pair. Benjamin, riddle-like in his personality and given to tactical evasion, and Adorno, full of his own importance, alternately support and compete with each other throughout the correspondence, until its imminent tragic end becomes apparent to both wri...
|  | Cats of Copenhagen
Release Date: October 16, 2012The Cats of Copenhagen was first written for James Joyce’s most beloved audience, his only grandson, Stephen James Joyce, and sent in a letter dated September 5, 1936. Cats were clearly a common currency between Joyce and his grandson. In early August 1936, Joyce sent Stephen “a little cat filled with sweets”—a kind of Trojan cat meant to outwit grown-ups. A few weeks later, Joyce penned a letter from Copenhagen that begins “Alas! I cannot send you a Copenhagen cat because there are no cats in Copenhagen.” The letter reveals t...
|  | Marching with the Devil: Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion
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|  | War is Not Just for Heroes: World War II Dispatches and Letters of US Marine Corps Combat Correspondent Claude R. "Red" Canup
Publication Date: May 15, 2012Winner of the 2012 Denig Award of the USMC Combat Correspondents AssociationFilling a gap in the history of U.S. Marine Corps aviation history, War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories written by one marine as a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II as shared through his dispatches, letters, diary entries, personal notes, and tapes. At a time when the average recruit was a strapping, healthy eighteen-year-old male fresh out of high school, the U.S. Marine Corps began recruiting experienced reporters who formed the coalitio...
|  | Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts
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|  | In Their Own Words: Letters from Norwegian Immigrants
Publication Date: January 3, 1991Book ...
|  | The Sixties: Diaries 1960-1969
Release Date: December 6, 2011This remarkable second volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. These pages are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time—Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W. Somerset Maugham, Vanessa Redgrave, David O. Selznick, Igor Stravinsky, Gore Vidal, and many others—yet prove most revealing about the author himself. Isherwood moves easily from Beckett to Brando, from ar...
|  | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: Broadview Literary Texts Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, James Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant psychological study of religious fanaticism and the power of evil. Led on by his sinister companion, Gil-Martin, Robert Wringhim commits a series of atrocious crimes. As the novel progresses, however, and the complexity of Wringhim's mind is revealed, the reader begins to doubt whether Gil-Martin even exists. This edition of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner places the work within the context of Calvinism, Scottish polit...
|  | The World's Great Letters
Publication Date: January 1, 1940Letters make the most interesting reading, especiallyother people's. This anthology is the product of many years ofintensive research and collecting on the part of the editor. Eachletter is prefaced with a biographical prelude and a summary of thehistoric background behind the correspondence. Among the over 120letters herein, read as Alexander the Great announces to Darius, Kingof Persia, that he alone has dominion over the earth; Beethoven writesto his Immortal Beloved; Michelangelo negotiates with the Pope overthe Sistine Chapel; Christopher Columbus report...
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