Letter, Diaries

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 …

A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville’s later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United …

‘It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.’ John Tyndall, 1874Although we are used to …

A compilation of the subversive, important and entertaining writer of Hunter S. Thompson – renowned American writer of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’It would not do to be found in the desert under …

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, T. S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. The demands of his professional life as writer and editor became more complex and …

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah’s …

As a classroom text, this book relates nicely to contemporary discussions of racism, nationalism, patriotism, human rights, and …

I first met Irene one Enchanted Evening at the Kursaal dance rooms, Southend on sea. It was New Year’s Eve 1952 and South Pacific was showing at the local Cinema. I saw Irene ‘across a crowded room’ …

The story of two Wayne State University students who were separated by World War II, told through the letters that they exchanged.Robert E. Quirk and his future wife, Marianne, were both Wayne State …

As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from sixteenth-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find …