Briefe, Tagebücher

"One day you will know that the world is a beautiful place to be and that you are so loved."A 10 year-old holds a letter to the light, trying to read the handwritten scrawl that looks so fa …

A profoundly moving and historical record—letters sent by sixteen fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children during the 1930s–1950s.“They will live as human beings and …

Experience romance and wartime London in the collected letters between two English lovers separated while serving their country during World War II.On July 17, 1939, Eileen Alexander, a recent Cambri …

A selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life. There is only one course of action that can make you happy. . . . rejoice in what is yours. What …

Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one …

*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor’s Pick* ‚Terrific‘ SARAH DUNANT ‚Lively and intriguing … You’ll never look at Renaissance portraits in th …

Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on …

During World War I, Dr. Mary M. Crawford spent nearly a year volunteering at the American Ambulance Hospital in France. Among the first American physicians to join the Allied war effort in 1914, she …

A beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadnessand the transformative power of tears.When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustr …

This fascinating volume reproduces the letters and journal of Lady Susan Ramsay (1837-1898), the elder daughter of the Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. The correspo …