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Diaries, letters & journals
Brand: Sort of Books
"I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts..." - Letter to Eva Konikova, 1946 Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes,..
18.74£
Brand: Welbeck Publishing
Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg respond to her critics? This carefully curated selec..
33.60£
Brand: Gill Books
As she turns 80, Mary O'Rourke writes a letter to 20 people, past and present, close and distant, living and deceased. To her beloved brother, Paddy … to the Athlone Fianna Fáil Women's Group … to Mo Mowlam … to a young couple embracing on a bridge ..
22.29£
Brand: Canongate Books
In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos. Includes..
10.42£
Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rainer Maria Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse, these ten letters of correspondence between Rilke and a young aspiring poet reveal elements from the inner work..
14.13£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely ..
12.41£
Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
"Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old stud..
5.99£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of a..
6.67£
Brand: Ebury Publishing
'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often under threat, Letters to Change the World sends remind..
17.05£
Franz Kafka met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. Energetic, down-to-earth, and life-affirming, the twenty-five-year-old secretary was everything Kafka was not, and he was instantly smitten. Because he was living in Pr..
27.84£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth..
26.63£
Brand: Random House
Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was trans..
13.76£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best..
21.53£
Brand: Random House
Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the..
18.34£
Brand: OUP Oxford
'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Tyndall, 1874 Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate di..
16.11£
Brand: Chiltern Publishing
Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these ti..
24.86£
Brand: Canongate Books
'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.'Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This colle..
13.31£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational … Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense … This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced ..
14.66£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothb..
12.56£
Brand: Random House
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 just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia ..
13.77£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 A laugh-out-loud true story of the trials and tribulations of being a live-in nanny in 1980s London and inspired a major TV series starring Helena Bonham Carter.*****In 198..
13.44£
Brand: Visual Profile Books
20 March 1983. There are sheep in the field. 'I know what they are,' she says, 'but I don't know what they are called. Thus Wittgenstein is routed by my mother. Alan Bennett's diary for 1983 was the first to be published in the London Review of Book..
16.41£
Brand: Canongate Books
Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorou..
36.13£
Brand: Ryland Peters Small
A guided journal to unlock your own personal brand of magical self-care and discover what works best for you to nourish and celebrate your body, mind and spirit. Self-care belongs to everyone, and it's especially important if you feel stretched thin..
13.66£