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The brief and tragic life of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) is told through the beautiful and passionate letters written by Charlotte to her best friend Ellen Nussey. Born and brought up in the bleak Haworth parsonage with only her sisters and brother for company, she soon obtains employment as a Governess. Having travelled abroad to study languages in Brussels, she returns to the Yorkshire moors to join her family where she writes her most successful novel, Jane Eyre.

Born at Steventon in 1775, the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, Jane Austen was the youngest of seven children. She lived a quiet life, moving to Bath, Southampton, Chawton and eventually to Winchester where she died unmarried in 1817 at the age of 42. It is to her elder sister Cassandra that most of her surviving letters are written, and through them, we discover the intimate world of the English gentry.

George Gordon Byron was born in 1788, the son of the profligate 'Mad Jack' Byron, and succeeded to the title in 1798 moving to the family seat of Newstead Abbey. He attended Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proved to be a poor scholar, preferring boxing, the low life and poetry, publishing his first volume of poems in 1806. In 1809, at 21, he embarked on a grand tour of Europe and on his return to England he married the humourless Annabella Milbanke, who gave birth to his daughter Augusta in 1815.

Weiterschreiben im Fremdsein – ein einzigartiger Austausch der Kulturen. Wie weiterschreiben nach der Flucht aus Kriegs- und Krisengebieten? Wie veröffentlichen? Gehört werden? "Weiterschreiben - (W)Ortwechseln" ist die vielfach ausgezeichnete Online-Plattform, die Autor:innen die Möglichkeit gibt, weiter zu schreiben und literarisch anzukommen. Bereits seit 2017 schreiben Autor:innen u. a. aus Syrien, dem Irak, Iran, Jemen und Afghanistan Briefe, Erzählungen und Gedichte u.a. über ihre alte Heimat und über ihre neue, über das Weggehen und Ankommen.

In "My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard," Elizabeth Cooper offers the reader a translation of two series of letters by Kwei-li, the wife of a high-rank Chinese official. The first series is addressed to her husband whilst he is on a world tour with Prince Chung in the late 19th century. The second series of letters is from 25 years later and are addressed to her mother-in-law. Political intrigue is raging in China and the country is on the verge of a revolution.

Have you ever read the story of Creation told in the first person and in a diary form? If not "The Diaries of Adam and Eve" would be the best choice for you. You will find out what the Garden of Eden looked like, see how Adam and Eve lived, and what their perceptions of each other was. You will witness how Eve named the animals and the plants, and what Adam thought of it. This is Mark Twain’s most amusing masterpiece. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories.

Monk Ambrosius arrives at a rural monastery and the last thing he expects to happen is to be drawn into sympathy with a young girl. Her name is Benedicta, the local hangman’s daughter. Ambrosius is not allowed to spend time with Benedicta but he opposes his superiors and stands by her side until a young impetuous man confronts him. The battle between mind and heart is fierce. Find out what will prevail in Ambrose Bierce’s story "The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter".

First published as Journal of the Gallery London in 1993 with revised editions in 1998 and 2001, more than 400 entries chronicle the life of the city; a powerfully driven arena of dysfunctional experience. Episodes record incidents and encounters; in the streets, with shoppers and travelers, in the landscape, and in scenes of social and internal life. As the journal develops, fact and fiction blend into a filmic sequence of events.

This day-by-day, factual, and complete account of events throughout the coronavirus pandemic, written as it happened, gives incredible insight into what life was like during this tragic and historic pandemic in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It includes facts and figures, government initiatives, news events, moving individual accounts, and the horrific consequences, as they happened each day. There is also a daily personal slant on what life was like for the author and his family during what threatened to be an apocalyptic event. The diary covers 491 days.

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a...

Vom Leben und anderen Komplikationen – Moderatorin Bettina Tietjen zieht Bilanz. Als Bettina Tietjen im Keller ihre alten Tagebücher wiederfindet, beginnt für sie eine aufwühlende Zeitreise. Sie begegnet ihrem 14-jährigen Ich wieder, das sich leidenschaftlich politisch positioniert, taucht ein in die ersten, manchmal auch nur heiß ersehnten Liebschaften, die Jahre der Abnabelung vom strenggläubigen Elternhaus und die große Suche nach dem Lebensglück.

These letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington's army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Private Wheeler's record covers the Peninsular Campaign, keeping order during the coronation of Louis XVIII (whom he called 'an old bloated poltroon') and his later posting to Corfu.

Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others. Letters to Gwen John is Paul's imagined correspondence with Gwen John, whose life and work have loomed so large in hers. 

John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.

Rahel Levin Varnhagen, geboren vor 250 Jahren in Berlin, war eine ausgesprochene Netzwerkerin. Als Salonnière empfing sie regelmäßig bekannte und unbekannte Gäste verschiedener Stände. Als exzessive Briefeschreiberin reflektierte und kommentierte sie kritisch wie humoristisch ihre persönliche Gegenwart. Dennoch erlebte sie als deutsche Jüdin immer wieder Antisemitismus, was nicht zuletzt Hannah Arendt zu einer Biografie über Varnhagen bewegte.

This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.

Este libro es el primer manual del ser contemporáneo y diario personal escrito por mí. La calma del bienestar, de las invenciones. Los aspectos tridimensionales de los objetos humanos concretos, a forma de investigación del pensamiento individual. Describe mis experiencias, fantasiosamente las memorias del bien en la tierra de los malos. El periodo de las dieciocho cartas incluidas va desde agosto del 2005 a marzo del 2007.

Carta al padre es el nombre dado comunmente a la carta que Franz Kafka escribió a su padre Hermann en noviembre de 1919, criticándolo por su conducta emocionalmente abusiva e hipócrita hacia él. Estas cartas revelan aspectos desconocidos del autor.

"Cuadernos de un viajador". Donde confluyen el viajero y el trabajador, volumen 2, prosigue la colección de crónicas escritas por Saravia durante su paso por distintas naciones con historias agitadas a principios del siglo XXI. Hay un repaso de su recorrido por países sudamericanos como Uruguay, Chile y Paraguay, también un viaje intenso a la Sudáfrica que lleva todavía las marcas del apartheid. Al recuerdo del levantamiento del gueto mientras visita Varsovia le sigue el panorama de la vida actual de los palestinos en Ramallah, Belén y Jerusalén.

After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters. This heartbreakingly funny book about the impact of discovering lost letters is a celebration of correspondence; those lost acts of penned love, the vivid snapshots in time scattered back through a life.