Letter, Diaries

I am no good at letters. John Mc Gahern, 1963John Mc Gahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, prof …

During the late 1980s, a collection of sixteenth-century merchant letters appeared for sale. Over four sales at Christie’s, the letters, all addressed to the Corsini firm of London merchants, were sc …

‘;An officer’s diary hidden away for 40 years reveals the horrors of World War One in harrowing detail.’ The Sun Some Desperate Glory charts the progress of an enthusiastic and patriotic young office …

Telegraph letter writers, that most astute body of political commentators, are probably not alone in thinking that politics has taken some strange turns in recent years. The first coalition governmen …

INCLUDES NEW MATERIALWRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters …

Charles Brockden Brown (17711810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of …

Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known first and foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual …