Letters

A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198704287Author Fanny BurneyFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999775209Author Maida HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Lasse PressPublisher Lasse PressDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 79mm

Dante's epistle to Can Grande de la Scala seemingly provides keys to the Divine Comedy; hence it has posed awkward problems for many students of the poet. On one hand, those who discount "authorial intention" are confronted with Dante's own reading of...

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 literary, educational, cultural, religious, and...

Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the...

2005 - Best Book Translation Prize - New England Council of Latin American Studies Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817910242Author Boris Leonidovich PasternakFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681379050Author Edward GoreyFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

A collection of letters discussing the role of the state in the preservation and promotion of art and culture, by one of India's greatest artists. The seventeen letters in this collection were written by K.G. Subramanyan in response to requests from...

By excerpting from letters she exchanged with five irreverent writers and artists, Margaret Randall constructs conversations that open windows on four pivotal moments in her life and on world events. This correspondence touches on important themes, such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985469776Author Bill HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Pushcart PressPublisher Pushcart Press

At the time of her death in 2004, Lucia Berlin was known as a brilliant writer of short stories, beloved by other writers but never achieving wide readership or acclaim. That changed in 2015 with the publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, a...

For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Brought together by the death of a mutual friend in the late 1970s, they...

An artist and writer whose charming and inventive works are at once modest and ambitious, Joe Brainard was one of the most distinctive figures on New York City's vibrant cultural scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Widely known for his influential experimental...

This first volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1888-1891 contains 171 letters, of which 119 are published for the first time, written from late November 1888 to April 20, 1890. These letters continue to mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to...

'I don't know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty . . . love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain' Since her death...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734735345Author Monsieur Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson's works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her...

Dear Regina offers a remarkable window into the early years of one of America's best-known literary figures. While at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop from 1945 to 1948, Flannery O'Connor wrote to her mother Regina Cline O'Connor (who she...

Gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by a crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the 1950s and 1960s and the Language poets in the 1970s and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645842265Author Behrouz BoochaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Borderstream BooksPublisher Borderstream BooksWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's committee on scholarly editions This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883 includes 178 letters, 98 of which are published for the first time, written from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307391001Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Poet, teacher, and critic, Yvor Winters was a man of letters in more ways than one. This selection of his personal correspondence spans half a century of literary history and a lifetime of intellectual development and growth. As a record of a serious...

Emily Carr (1871-1945) is an iconic figure in Canadian culture, known internationally for her painting and her writing, which depicted the extraordinary British Columbia mountain landscape along with its indigenous inhabitants and their cultural...

This is the inaugural volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century. When completed, the edition's three volumes will include every extant letter written or received by Thoreau--in all, almost...

The mauve life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engrossing to one with an interest in the distinguished correspondents or in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras. An obscure figure...

A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198704263Author Fanny BurneyFormat HardbackPage...

A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198704256Author Fanny BurneyFormat HardbackPage...

In this new volume of letters, readers are invited to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens on her own terms, in her own voice--as complementary partner to her world-famous spouse, Mark Twain, and as enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975432Author Anne WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but wanted to write poetry. Williams was intrigued enough to write back. Their intense epistolary...

Recipient of the "Approved Edition" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This critical and scholarly edition presents the complete letters of Henry James, one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English...

George Grant was one of Canada's foremost political and religious thinkers. In his published writings, Grant was a careful and guarded writer, but in his letters he was frank and spontaneous, expressing ideas and opinions that he hesitated to convey in...

Robert Bechtold Heilman was a great literary figure of the twentieth century. This collection of his correspondence includes over 600 exchanges with more than 100 correspondents, among them Saul Bellow, Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Eberhart,...

This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus' life and in the history of his times. He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann Froben during the crucial phases in the production of...

During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as ""war guests."" This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young Alec Douglas, who wrote from his wartime home in Toronto to...

Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences,...

Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences,...

For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales...