Writers' Letters

Reducere. Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin editionAt the start of the twentieth ...

Reducere. DescriptionHumiliation is not, of course, unique to writers. However, the world of letters does seem to offer a near-perfect micro-climate for emba...

DescriptionMany of us want more from God instead of more of God.Matthew 5: 6 says, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for ...

Reducere. Moon City Press's most recent edition features an array of brand-new contemporary literature. Up-and-coming and established writers contribute shor...

Covers correspondence of more than 22 years between two of the 20th century's most amusing and gifted writers, and provides a colourful glimpse int...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Audre LordeAuthor: Pat ParkerEditor: Julie R. EnszerLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQI...

Reducere. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. ...

Reducere. "From the 1950s through the 1980s, John Dann MacDonald was one of the most popular and prolific writers in America. He was a crime writer who manag...

Reducere. For the first time, and against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's emboldened far-right regime, Brazil's legendary and pioneering queer writers appear tog...

Reducere. This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have fro...

Reducere. The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20, 000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British ...

Reducere. Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit an...

Reducere. Shore is one of America's leading Christian writers on the subject of gay people and Christianity. His essays are widely credited with being centra...

Reducere. In They Are Sleeping, Joanna Klink tests the limits of solitude, setting her poems in places where our grip on "self" is loosened and blurred--cave...

In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters...

From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS).In It's Ge...

Reducere. Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 201...

Reducere. James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the...

Reducere. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, " wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon trai...

Reducere. A spiritual anthology drawn from the Greek and Russian traditions, concerned in particular with the most frequently used and best loved of all Orth...

Description'I write to try to see you as you were, or what you have become. You left no forwarding address: that was part of your intention. For wh...

Reducere. Translated and Edited by Sister Dorothea Olga McCants, Daughter of the CrossIn Our People and Our History, originally published in French in 1911 a...

Reducere. Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privilege...

Reducere. Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Ida Faubert (1882--1969) is a 20th-century Haitian-French poet considered a Caribbean--and especially Haitian--literary ...

Reducere. Celtic Lore and Legend includes tales of the heroes and gods from the Great Myth Cycles and tales of witches, ghosts, and fairies--from Sir Walter ...

Reducere. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism: Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy: Rebellious Daughters, 1786-1826 Series Number 98 Convinced that...

Reducere. Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary ...

Reducere. Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark's debut collection take readers on a wild ride The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Ma...

Reducere. "A celebration of the adventure that is other people." --Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston,...

Reducere. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten* One hundred years ago, Bohemian author and editor of the radical Masses magazi...

Reducere. An intimate portrait of one of America's most beloved writers is revealed in this 1889 work from editor Ednah Dow Cheney. Originally published just...

A carefully chosen selection from the correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most gifted and famous historians of his generation and one o...

Reducere. '...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale...

Reducere. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing...

Reducere. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps...

Reducere. An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's ...

Reducere. Few writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhau...

The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a serie...

Reducere. Have you ever wanted to write a letter to an author who was important to you? In her Letters to Men of Letters, Diane Joy Charney writes to the aut...

Reducere. This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway's Lon...

"Stories in this book are as variegated as a stained glass window." Grady Harp, Author of War SongsStained Glass Myths is a collection of twenty-ei...

Reducere. Not What I Expected is a beautifully crafted memoir of adventure and seeking, the world crossing journey of an artist and journalist. It is one of ...

Reducere. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished...

Reducere. Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books...

Reducere. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his v...

Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks...

Reducere. At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on ...

Reducere. "This is poetry worth loving, hating, and fighting over."--The New York Times Book ReviewHere is the definitive collection of poetry from one of Am...

Reducere. The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on...

Reducere. DescriptionIn One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frighte...

Reducere. DescriptionSixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experien...

Reducere. Description" A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understo...

This is the story of the Dyess Colony, created in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal to aid in the nation's economic recove...

Reducere. More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Alex PierceEditor: Mimi MondalLuminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the Science Fiction genre who ...

DescriptionThe Christian faith depends to a great degree on persuasion. In one of his letters to early Christians, the apostle Paul wrote, "Let you...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath...

Reducere. Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone kn...

Writer's Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De BeauvoirPublisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers ...

Reducere. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called -an American virtuoso of the short story form- (Salon) and -on...

Reducere. In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and tro...

Reducere. Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She had intended to study medicine in Chicago or Grand Forks, but when ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Francis PongeTranslator: Lane Dunlop." . . And now, dear reader, for your intellectual toilet, here is a little piece of so...

Reducere. In this new, vivid, nuanced portrait, now in paperback, prize-winning historian Woody Holton uses original sources and letters for the first time i...

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Reducere. In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript ...

Reducere. Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper...

Reducere. Two New York Times fact-checkers spark a multidisciplinary meditation on truth and fictionThis volume connects two seemingly contradictory paradigm...

Reducere. Blaise Pascal, the remarkable seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker, rigorously refutes the belief that to become a C...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...