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Alfred Wainwright, the legendary fell walker and author of the incomparable and unique Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells was also a fluent, eloquent and diligent correspondent. Writing to old friends and to the many new ones gained through his books, and to his love, and later second wife, Betty, his letters display a much warmer, more sensitive and emotional character than his gruff popular image would suggest. Hunter Davies, Wainwright's biographer,...
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Though completely unappreciated during his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most recognizable names in the art world today. Though it would make sense that Van Gogh's life would be greatly undocumented, this is not the case. "The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh" is a collection of the correspondences between Van Gogh and his brother, Theo, that gives an incredibly enthralling look into the life of this genius. Tormented by loss of...
63) Letters from Nan
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Have you ever seen someone running pell-mell into disaster? You want to stop them, but you can't get there in time. Nan saw this begin to happen to her precious granddaughter, so she started writing her letters. She has made a multitude of mistakes-from ignorance or willfulness. Her heart's desire is for others to hear her stories and make choices according to God's plan for their lives.
The gist of this book is shared experiences from lessons Nan...
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The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters, which have been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands...
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Get the Summary of Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christina Sharpe's "Ordinary Notes" delves into the complexities of Black life, memory, and resistance. She draws parallels between historical and contemporary forms of racism, from the forced labor and rape in a Georgia prison labor camp in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" to the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg, where memorials...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald vivió 44 años. Una vida de excesos, de subida a los cielos y descenso a los infiernos. Con tan solo 23 años se vuelve rico y famoso de la noche a la mañana, y tan adepto al despilfarro como a la belleza, tan adicto al alcohol como a la literatura.
Este libro de cartas, muchas de ellas inéditas en castellano, abarcan el período desde el momento en que se convierte en un escritor reconocido hasta sus últimos días en Hollywood,...
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Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813), a French-American writer, was responsible for the first American novel deemed successful throughout Europe. With "Letters From an American Farmer", Crèvecoeur depicted the newly settled America as a country, and not just a system of colonies. This epistolary novel gave America an identity, expounding on the concept of The American Dream, with its themes of equal opportunity and self-determination, while...
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"Schwester Teresa macht sich Sorgen um die Sorgen. Zum Glück. Die meisten Menschen sorgen sich viel zu viel. … Höchste Zeit, sich mit dem leidigen Phänomen des Sorgens mal ein bisschen intensiver zu beschäftigen. Und da ist Schwester Teresa genau die Richtige. Eine fromme Tausendsassa, die mit beiden Beinen auf dem Boden steht und dabei den Blick immer fest in den Himmel gerichtet hält. Vor allem aber schafft sie es auf eindrückliche Weise,...
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The third book in the bestselling and hilarious series of 'Am I Alone…?' books From bin Laden to Pippa Middleton's bottom, and from riots to Rebekah Wade, Telegraph readers offer their maverick and hilarious take on the year's events, in the letters the paper didn't publish, because they were just too off-the-wall, too outrageous, or too waggish for an august Letters page. The first two volumes of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I...
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These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to those who are not. Written with power, style, and conviction these letters will guide and inspire anyone who reads them.
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Meanderings of the Pen, a collection of short stories told in first person by the author as she brings us into the lives of many different characters. The tales are heartwarming, nostalgic, and surprisingly entertaining. Whether they be 'beauty or beast' you will enjoy a camaraderie with them. Walk with her as she locates attention to some of the less obvious in our surroundings. Things you may have overlooked as you travelled through life. Savor...
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Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh's complete surviving correspondence presents a formidable challenge to those who wish to read and analyze the whole text as a literary work. Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh's letters and a distillation...
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Este Epistolario íntimo reúne una selección de las cartas que escribió el poeta a lo largo de su obra. El volumen puede leerse como la carta de navegación del signo Vallejo. Es en las epístolas enviadas a compañeros de ruta como Juan Larrea, Gerardo Diego o Mariátegui donde Vallejo devela de forma más prístina las reflexiones que motivan su escritura. A través de ellas también se puede reconstruir el itinerario vital que operó como motor...
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La vinculación entre Gabriela Mistral y seis presidentes de la República es materia central de estas páginas. Ella mantuvo correspondencia frecuente con dos de ellos –Pedro Aguirre Cerda y Eduardo Frei Montalva–, cuya lectura permite ahora un interesante acercamiento al fuero interno de la Nobel de Literatura 1945.
En esas cartas se revela mucho de su carácter, sus sentires y expectativas vitales, sus modos de expresar afectos e incluso algunas...
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El autor es pediatra y Capitán de Yate. En este libro nos relata la larga travesía que en 2018 emprendió con su velero, el Corto Maltés, para dar la vuelta a Francia.
Saliendo de Santander ascendió la costa atlántica hasta Bretaña, a continuación el Canal de la Mancha hasta cerca de la frontera con Bélgica, y finalmente el descenso por los ríos y canales del interior de Francia hasta el Mediterráneo.
Sorprendentemente los mares gruesos...
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In the summer of 2011, a mysterious gentleman sidled up to the reception of a London publishing house, deposited a memory stick on the desk then melted away. The stick was a revelation; it contained hundreds of letters, all seemingly written by Prince Charles. Dating back to his boyhood and addressed to a far wider range of recipients than hitherto suspected – including the Pope, Celine Dion and a recurring correspondence with former deputy prime...
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Pierre Vadeboncoeur et Pierre Elliott Trudeau ont été d'inséparables copains de l'école primaire jusqu'à l'université, pour ensuite devenir collaborateurs à la revue Cité libre et camarades de luttes contre le duplessisme. Cette bonne entente a duré jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'affrontent dans les années 1960 sur l'avenir de la nation québécoise. L'un étant souverainiste et socialiste, l'autre, le fédéraliste que l'on connaît. Pourtant, l'affection...
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Las cartas que aquí se presentan constituyen un valioso material de archivo que contribuirá, sin duda, a reconstruir la historia del Perú posbélico y a repensar las estrategias discursivas que Clorinda Matto de Turner utilizó para tejer redes a distancia con Ricardo Palma y otras figuras clave de la cultura latinoamericana de su tiempo.
Este epistolario editado y anotado ofrece la oportunidad de cartografiar el campo intelectual peruano en los...
79) Living On Luck
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Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center.
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Notas de diarios, cartas, pensamientos, descripciones sirven al joven Justo Sierra para contarnos la vida de Antonio, un joven músico que abandona su lugar de origen en la costa para trasladarse a la Ciudad de México y terminar su formación musical para dedicarse a la composición.
En ese empeño, el protagonista avanza en su arte y se adentra al núcelo de la vida social y cultural del México de mediados del siglo XIX. Inteligencia, agudeza...