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'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.One of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-03-03
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There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and at Passchendaele. On the other hand, there are those who view Haig...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-11-05
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'Dear Stranger is an inspiration' Stylist Dear Stranger is a collection of inspirational, honest and heartfelt letters from authors, bloggers and Mind ambassadors to an imagined stranger. Insightful and uplifting, Dear Stranger is a humbling glimpse into different...
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Penguin
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2015-07-02
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'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of great letter-writing, Keats's letters are outstanding. They begin in summer 1816, as he...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-11-27
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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-09-25
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The vivid and exciting accounts written from the front line, taking the story of the British war with Napoleon from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at WaterlooThe Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable battle commander but a remarkably...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-07-03
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'I wanted this to be a letter full of news, but there isn't any yet. It's just a letter full of what I think about you and me...' Dylan Thomas's letters to the women in his life are among the most emotive, lyrical and beautiful ever to have been written. At various...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-05-22
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Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world.Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it is filled with all sorts of heart-warming gems. There are...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-02-13
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A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-02-06
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James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection fromJames's eloquent correspondence allows the writer...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-01-02
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*** WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR** *'I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving, and contains more than one reference to Arsenal FC' Nick Hornby,The Believer'Adrian...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-07
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From the time when he was a little boy, Patrick White wrote letters - brilliant, gossipy, funny, angry, heartfelt letters. When he died in 1990 at the age of 78, between 2, 500 and 3, 000 of them survived, scattered - and often treasured - all over the world. In the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-10-31
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A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.From organising the school summer fete...'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-10-24
Collection :
Thrush Green
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Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-03
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'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.'
Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-12
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'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.'
Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-12
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In the period covered here (1960–75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes US President (and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba; the Six-Day Arab–Israeli war of 1967 creates...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-08-31
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Very early in her career Sylvia Townsend Warner won recognition of a discerning group of writers and readers on both sides of rare imagination and originality increased with each new publication. In addition to publishing some twenty books she wrote thousands of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-07-31
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Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. Burroughs's letters show the development of both the man and the writer, vividly documenting his (often turbulent)...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-09-27
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