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Union General William Tecumseh Sherman came right through her yard on their march to the sea in 1864, just as they had other plantations. But the widow mistress of Georgia's Burge Plantation was no typical southern belle. She was a Maine-born transplant with 100 slaves. Here, in Dolly Sumner Lunt's own words, is a description of those days as she watched everything she had and believed in being threatened by an army she described as invaders.

If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of print for decades, and even when it was in print it appeared in scholarly volumes of Melville's complete correspondence, aimed at the academy.

With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate her classic texts.

In the aftermath of the War and against the backdrop of the evolving American civil rights movement and feminism, Chaim squirms against his manipulative mother and rabbity father and a malevolent East Coast mob boss, to get what he wants: to leave the East for California and become a doctor.

Pose Prose and Poems: My Thoughts Exactly was the first compilation of poetry and prose by Janna Hill and was copyrighted in 1998. The verses reflect the hopes, dreams, hurt, and disappointments found in the human condition.

Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell University in 1933, but unable to find work, Charles M. Wiltse joined his parents on the small farm they had recently purchased in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living selling eggs, corn, and other farm goods at prices that were barely enough to keep the farm intact.

This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of the groundbreaking Against Interpretation in 1966.

Der seinerzeit sehr populäre Schriftsteller Heinrich Seidel ("Leberecht Hühnchen") schildert hier seinen Lebensweg...

"Tonio, Sie sind hart wie Stein, wenn Sie treffen wollen." Agnes E. Meyer. Sie war seine Gönnerin, er war ihr Briefpartner von 1937 an bis zu seinem Tod 1955. Obwohl Thomas Mann von der nahezu grenzenlosen Bewunderung erheblich profitierte, die ihm Agnes E. Meyer entgegenbrachte, sah er ihre Hilfe bisweilen als störende Einmischung in sein Leben. Im Gegenzug erwartete Agnes E. Meyer ein gewisses Maß an Aufmerksamkeit und nahm für sich das Recht in Anspruch, ihn zu kritisieren und ihm Ratschläge zu erteilen.

Von Müttern in der Heimat und Vätern an der Front, vom 15-jährigen Mädchen bis zum Greis, vom jungen Idealisten bis zum fanatischen Militaristen - jedes dieser Tagebücher hält den Blick auf das umwälzende Zeitgeschehen fest. Von der Mobilmachung bis zur Niederlage entsteht so ein Echolot jener Tage: Trennungsschmerz und patriotisches Hoch, Todesangst und Heldenmut, Freudengesänge und das nackte Grauen stehen unmittelbar nebeneinander.

Hitze, Mücken, Fledermäuse, Zypressen und Wein...So stellt man sich einen ganz besonderen Fleck Italiens vor - die Toscana...

Fernando Pessoa est né en 1888 à Lisbonne. Considéré avant tout comme un poète, Pessoa est une forme littéraire à lui tout seul. Lorsqu’il invente ses différents hétéronymes, il dit découvrir en lui de nouvelles écritures, presque contradictoires les unes avec les autres. Cet...

Intimate and illuminating, this is the story of American icon Ernest Hemingway's life, compiled by the steward of the Hemingway estate and featuring contributions by his son and grandson. For many people, Ernest Hemingway remains more a compilation of myths than a person: soldier, sportsman...

This audiobook features self-talk messages that can help you to: strengthen confidence and self-esteem, support self-growth and professional development, succeed with relationships (romance, friendships, career, etc.), and more. Use these self-communicating messages within and guide yourself to be the best ideal "YOU" that you have been yearning to be! Reprogram your inner dialogue with Edward F. T. Charfauros' proven self-communication audiobook that assists him in taking control of his life and his destiny.

In April 1915 Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend, Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Treport in Northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a diary. 'Who knows how long we shall really be out here? Seems a good chance from all reports of the campaigns being ended before winter, but all is uncertain.'

Ein Porträt der Familie Mann in Briefen. Zärtlich umgarnend, frech zugespitzt und maßlos übertrieben, Tratsch und lebenswichtige Ereignisse mitteilend: Die Vielfalt der Tonlage in den Briefen von Katia und Thomas Mann mit ihren sechs Kindern ist grenzenlos. Tilmann Lahme legt hier zusammen mit Holger Pils und Kerstin Klein eine Sammlung von Briefen vor, die einen ganz unverstellten, intimen und oft überraschenden Einblick in den Familienbetrieb bietet.

Winner of the 2015 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is...

When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to share their own memories.A prolific letter writer herself, Jennifer always corresponded and this book includes some fascinating letters she received.

Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore the culture and landscape as well as the racing while the ‘Lionel of Flanders’, complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium.

Imagine a year without spending - or even touching - money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is his extraordinary story. Going back to basics and following his own strict rules, Mark learned ingenious ways to eliminate his bills and discovered that good friends are all the riches you need.