Letter, Diaries

A 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver Winner for Biography Against the backdrop of World War II, Joy Passanante s touching new book, Through a Long Absence: Words from My Father s Wars, is t …

Over the centuries, European debate about the nature and status of images of God and sacred figures has often upset the established order and shaken societies to their core. Out of this debate, an id …

When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day’s events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, …

Delve into a legendary literary love affair’I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I jus …

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 …

'I write about love, I write about friendship, ' remarked Thom Gunn: 'I find that they are absolutely intertwined.' These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, fam …

The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post-Civil War years This third volume of Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence Series exhibits Dou …

The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.   …

This book, first published as two volumes in 1977 and 1978, was published purely for the purpose of showing how Buddhist training was done by the Reverend Jiyu-Kennett in the Far East. The material f …

This book offers a unique firsthand account of the experiences of a teenage officer in America’s Civil War. Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell was only seventeen years old when he received his com …