Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ...
Studying together at Oxford, the author and his partner met C.S. Lewis, who helped them make the momentous step into faith. Lewis later helped the author over his partner's death, showing how it could be seen not as tragedy, but as "a severe mercy".
Gregg College Keyboarding and Document Processing (GDP), Word 2007 Update, 10e by Ober, Johnson, and Zimmerly provides a highly flexible, complete learning system. Building from a strong foundation, this version of GDP focuses on adding flexibility for the instructor, along with updating the program to be compatible with the new Microsoft Word ...
A collection of letters written by the author of the Little House books to her husband, Almanzo, while she was visiting their daughter Rose Wilder Lane in San Francisco.
In the 1950s a New York City book-lover writes to a London bookshop. They reply, and thus is born a warm, witty, and unique correspondence between people who had never met.
The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret marriage, to their eventual separation.
Always anticipating the needs of today's business writers, the ninth edition includes expanded coverage of audience and context, and reflects the impact that e-mail and technology have had on workplace communication. New features of this title include: expanded coverage of the latest types of Web writing and business promotion; a new entry on ...
As might be expected, Jane Austen was a sharp and witty letter-writer. Fortunately, she was also a prolific correspondent. This collection of her letters illuminates the brilliantly clever young woman who wrote some of the world's greatest novels.
This remarkable book is a compilation of letters exchanged between an agnostic father and his believing son in which they alternately raise objections to the Christian faith and responses to them, resulting ultimately in the father's conversion.
Much more than a grammar and punctuation handbook, this renowned guide helps users produce documents that reflect quality writing standards. It offers access to more than 110 topics. The CD-ROM contains more than 30 model documents, including letters, memos, and resumes.
An indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. In this classic handbook, top professionals write about the special demands and skills necessary for particular areas of expertise--mass market, romance, special markets, and more.
One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis after incarceration in Tegel Prison. Acute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human ...
This 3rd revised edition features more model letters on more subjects than ever before with over 70 new categories, almost 1000 letters in all, including - asking favours, turning down requests, getting and giving information, making and answering complaints, job hunting, resignation and many more situations.
Appearing in paperback for the first time with a newly expanded Index comes this collection of personal letters, the only source for Tolkien's own thoughts on the creation and meaning of Middle-earth.
Strategies for Business and Technical Writing teaches effective writing for the world of work, offering advice from reputable sources about the most important issues in business and technical writing. The reading selections, written by seasoned professionals in the business world, teach professional writing, simultaneously illustrating the genre. ...
A comprehensive business communication textbook which focuses on the development of effective written and oral communication skills while emphasizing real-world issues. The text is structured around a strategic model for business communication which integrates the dynamic forces of diversity, technology, legal and ethical constraints, and a team ...
The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the ...
In this intriguing biography, literary biographer Fred Kaplan analyzes Abraham Lincoln's writings, from the great civic anthems of his presidency to love letters, legal briefs, and poems, and finds a first-rate literary talent--a master storyteller with an earthy wit, sharp logic, and an ear for poetic phrasing.
An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated ...
The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated into every major language, and the Nobel Prize awarded to him in 1954 recognized his impact on contemporary writing. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary ...
In The Story of My Life recounts, and reflects on, his more than fifty years as a corporate, labor, and criminal lawyer, including the most celebrated and notorious cases of his day: establishing the legal right of a union to strike in the Woodworkers' Conspiracy Case; exposing, on behalf of the United Mine Workers, the shocking conditions in the ...
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