Letter, Diaries

"I loved this book. It’s an inexpensive collection of Walt Whitman poems, letters, and essays that is well worth your time … this book is worth purchasing and perusing due to its historica …

Walter Benjamin – philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist – was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin’s maj …

Educated at Campbell College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin, Bill Jackson retired in 1999 from a career with Oxfam, the Irish public service and the United Nations.That emigration tore Irish fa …

This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and litera …

William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ‘Yage’ which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be ‘the f …

Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee are respectively responsible for some of the great contemporary works of fiction: Auster's The New York Trilogy or Coetzee's Disgrace are only two of these aut …

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson’s descriptions of the customs …

Oscar Wilde’s autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic process De Profundis (Latin for “from the depths”) is Oscar Wilde’s reconciliation from a …

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe’s most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of F …