Letters

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307961464Author Willa CatherFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 166mm...

Selected letters of occult author Gareth Knight, written over a period of forty years and to over seventy different people. These include learned discourse with academics, exchanges of strange experiences with esoteric colleagues, and advice to seekers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525435136Author Carolina De RobertisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916896918Author Hazel KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Unknown Road PressPublisher Unknown Road Press

"If only I do not die here." After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, which were spent in rented rooms in a house opposite Wahnfried, the home of his daughter Cosima and his...

Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527-1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison...

Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982579Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 730g

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Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644398982Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509844Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027331857Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 36mm

The name Cliff Slade will be instantly recognised as a frequent and indefatigable correspondent to the Letters to the Editor columns. This book is written in the first person, as being most appropriate for someone who is speaking directly to his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941129890Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Vigeo PressPublisher Vigeo PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm

Fabulous letters from the vagabond Beat poet to his friendsamong them Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never held down a regular job. He rarely stayed very long...

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599100029Author Francesco PetrarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091559Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

William Empson was the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century. He was a man of huge energy and curiosity, and a genuine eccentric who remained imperturbable in the face of all the extraordinary circumstances in which he found himself...

After a lifetime as a professional musician, Marvin B. Naylor took his talents to the streets of Winchester, playing his fingerstyle guitar pieces to a sometimes adoring public. His vivid daily account of life as a street musician in the weird and...

Within this fascinating new book, Barbara Morrill analyses the journal writings of Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman in the 1940s, as she began analysis with a Jungian oriented practitioner in 1941.While Anne Frank is an inspirational figure, little is...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437155Author Suor Maria CelesteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780385685672Author Tom WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House...

On tissue-thin paper in a tiny, often undecipherable hand, Alice Toklas described her daily life in Paris in absorbing detail, like a latter-day Madame de Sevigne. Here are shrewd, witty observations on some of the most interesting artists, musicians,...

Occasional Views brings together a diverse collection of essays by, and interviews with, one of literature's most iconic voices. Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His works have fundamentally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939675286Author Katherine RiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Sundress PublicationsPublisher Sundress PublicationsWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140157963Author Mitchell A. LeaskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724798Author Peter JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

During the 1950s and '60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were written from one or the other while they were traveling,...

_______________ 'An absorbing volume' - The Spectator _______________ First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship is a collection of letters following Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs. 'London guests staying hate it. Keeps them awake all...

Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597313063Author George William RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Coracle PressPublisher Coracle PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German...

Contributors include Lee K. Abbott, Charles Baxter, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Shelby Foote, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, and Flannery O'Connor, among others.About the AuthorFrederick Busch (1941-2006) was the recipient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805505Author Kate InglisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838248932Author Michael Richard HintonFormat PaperbackImprint orrydianPublisher orrydian

On a hot July afternoon in 1953, George F. Kennan descended the steps of the State Department building as a newly retired man. His career had been tumultuous: early postings in eastern Europe followed by Berlin in 1940-41 and Moscow in the last year of...