Letter, Diaries

‘It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us … without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry’For several years of his turbulent life, in which he was dogged by ill health, exile …

This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China between the Nationalists …

In looking closely at Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century …

Students and teachers of African American literature will enjoy this one-of-a-kind …

During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby’s Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of …

A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840–1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a …

Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman’s sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year – 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own …

"I couldn’t put it down … like a jilted lover, when I reached the end I wanted more" Danielle Goldstein, Time Out Love Virtually is a funny, fast-paced and utterly absorbing novel, with …

Have you ever just clicked with someone? – the sequel to the international bestseller Love Virtually about a relationship conducted by email.Love Virtually ends as Leo leaves Austria for America. He …

Julian,  also known as Julian the Apostate, was Roman Emperorfrom 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. He was a man of unusually complex character: he was ‘the military …