Letter, Diaries

Imagine being able to go back in time through a door opening up in our minds and going through a time travel warp to re live our youth a second time around but this time around doing things different …

This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck’s writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects – textual …

‘You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!’ The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian …

Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of …

Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in …

How an oddly attributed $19, 000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective story In late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a ‘German, …

In two highly anticipated volumes, the correspondence of the twentieth century's eminent man of letters, from youth to early manhood Volume One: 1898–1922 presents some 1, 400 letters …

Z Pallo Jordan has long been the unapologetic moral guardian of the liberation struggle. His writings spanning decades are testament to the power of putting pen to paper and speaking the truth with …

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare …

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these …