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 ...
For many people, the name of Archbishop Rembert Weakland brings to mind only connotations of scandal the titillating tale of a prominent priest disgraced. But that whiff of dishonor barely begins to tell the whole story. / In these pages Archbishop Weakland recounts his life from his childhood in rural Pennsylvania to his retirement from the ...
Inspired by the book of love letters Carrie reads aloud to Mr. Big in the blockbuster film "Sex and the City," this gorgeous keepsake volume collects some of the most romantic letters in history, from the private papers of such great men as Beethoven, Mozart, Lord Byron, Mark Twain, Robert Browning, and Oscar Wilde.
The best-selling enfant terrible of the Reagan revolution offers advice to today's budding conservatives--the very people he sees as the true "radicals" of tomorrow. Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s. He ...
Hitchens writes in the long and distinguished tradition of contrarianism and invective. In this work, he presents an overview of contrarian modes of discourse, and illustrates how the maverick stance--as dissident, curmudgeon, or just plain crank--may be essential to preserving standards of truth and democratic ideals.
"When Mom wrote, she always saved the best for last, " says Jack Brown, who collected bits of love, wisdom, inspiration, and humor rom three decades of his mother's letters.
Divided into sections by category, this book contains over 200 letters written by American presidents, slaves, soldiers, explorers, artists, religious leaders, and more. Examples include General Sherman addressing U.S. citizens before the destruction of Atlanta, Elvis Presley encouraging President Nixon to prevent drug abuse, and President Truman ...
This collection constitutes an autobiography of sorts of the 41st President of the United States. Bush includes fascinating letters (and some diary entries) from his life and career that reveal the public and private man in an interesting (and unghosted) manner. Many of the letters to family members deal with moving personal matters. Bush was a ...
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence - and reveal ...
An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students. Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant Lois Ames have judiciously chosen from among thousands of letters and provided ...
An elegantly designed book is lavishly filled with passionate, sexy, surprising, funny, and historically significant love letters, selected by one of America's most prestigious autograph dealers.
The definitive collection of letters of the incomparable Coward reveals a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and age--from the Blitz to the Ritz. Profoundly savvy, witty, and often surprisingly moving, this collection presents the artist at his crackling best. Illustrations throughout.
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 ...
This book contains a collection of the great est love letters of all time from 200 of the world''s most ar ticulate lovers. They include Napoleon, Elinor Wylie, Byron, James Joyce, Zelda Fitzgerald and many others. '
William Maxwell championed the work of Sylvia Townsend Warner at The New Yorker when he was an editor there and she was a beginning writer. They seldom met, but this volume of their fascinating, instructive, and very literate correspondence begins at the start of their friendship in 1938 and ends with her death 40 years later. A New York Times ...
Joyce Carol Oates's personal favorites among Emily Dickinson's poems, including both the much-anthologized and the more obscure. In her introduction, Oates states, "Dickinson is one of very few poets whose work repays countless readings, through a lifetime."
Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." This collection spans letters from their first meeting in 1947, when both were young, newly launched poets, until Lowell's death in 1977.
Donated to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, Groucho Marx's correspondence was first crafted into this celebration of wit and wisdom in 1967. Reissued today with his original letters and humor intact, "The Groucho Letters" exposes one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedian's private insights into show biz, politics, business, and ...
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was a maverick among physicists, renowned for not only his achievements in the field of quantum electrodynamics (for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1965) but for his iconoclastic views and unorthodox leanings. No one ever doubted that his science was sound, and that he was a gifted communicator, as both writer and ...
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings, culled in a large part from the authoritative "Papers of Jefferson Davis, " a multi volume edition of his letters and speeches.
Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted.
Denise M. Ackermann's upbringing as a relatively privileged white South African, her studies in Europe, her South African college education, and her work as a theologian all inform the six haunting letters in AFTER THE LOCUSTS. Written to family members and friends (some living, some dead, and some too young at the time of writing to read them), ...
Using her unique perspective on Kurt Vonnegut's life and how it shaped his famous works, Rackstraw, his longtime friend, portrays a deeply humane man who sought out the humor and absurdity in the world in order to survive. 20 b&w illustrations.
This correspondence between Hemingway and Scribner editor Max Perkins began in 1925 and continued until the late 1940s. It is a remarkable record of a powerful professional alliance and friendship and provides a fascinating lens with which to view the development of Hemingway's art and his rise to fame.
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