Author | : Isaac Mamaysky |
Publisher | : Carolina Academic Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781531011031 |
Author | : Isaac Mamaysky |
Publisher | : Carolina Academic Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781531011031 |
Author | : Franz Kafka |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0804150788 |
More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
Author | : Abigail Adams |
Publisher | : Belknap Press |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674057058 |
“A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life.” —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to “Miss Adorable,” the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history. As a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. Constitution. Separated more often than they were together during this founding era, John and Abigail shared their lives through letters that each addressed to “My Dearest Friend,” debating ideas and commenting on current events while attending to the concerns of raising their children (including a future president). Full of keen observations and articulate commentary on world events, these letters are also remarkably intimate. This new collection—including some letters never before published—invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partnership of two strong individuals, in their own words. This is history at its most authentic and most engaging.
Author | : Gian Franco Svidercoschi |
Publisher | : Crossroad Publishing |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780824514822 |
This is the tale of two boys, one a Christian and one a Jew, in a Polish town during the twenties and thirties. Jurek's and Lolek's lives were to be changed by the anti-Semitism and then by the Nazis, the war, and deportations. But the bond between them was to prove stronger than all other forces and, almost half a century later brought together the Polish Pope and his Jewish friend.
Author | : Lea Redmond |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781452159430 |
Write Now. Read Later. Treasure Forever. Letters to My Friend will inspire you to show your friend how much you care by filling this book of prompted letters with memories, appreciation, and plans for the future. Each letter is printed with a unique prompt like: I knew we would be friends when... From you, I learned the importance of... The best adventure we've had together was... Included are 12 letters that invite the writer to celebrate a cherished friendship, capturing favorite memories and sharing how much that special bond means. Each letter has a space to write when it was sealed and when it should be opened (will it be tomorrow or in 20 years?). Seal letters with the included stickers before giving this time capsule to a dear friend!
Author | : |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2024-02-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you! Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie’s principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age. Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.
Author | : Gina L. Mulligan |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1452163499 |
A beautiful collection of handwritten letters that offer strength and comfort to women living with breast cancer. Written by compassionate strangers—many of whom have gone through their own health battles—these heartfelt letters contain empathy, inspiration, and humor to help you overcome difficult moments. They were gathered by Girls Love Mail, an organization that provides support to people diagnosed with breast cancer. Also including beautiful illustrations, this is a book that can bring light to dark moments and make readers feel less alone during stressful and hard times.
Author | : Rachel Carson |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 857 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1504073886 |
These letters between the pioneering environmentalist and her beloved friend reveal “a vibrant, caring woman behind the scientist” (Los Angeles Times). “Rachel Carson, author of The Silent Spring, has been celebrated as the pioneer of the modern environmental movement. Although she wrote no autobiography, she did leave letters, and those she exchanged—sometimes daily—with Dorothy Freeman, some 750 of which are collected here, are perhaps more satisfying than an account of her own life. In 1953, Carson became Freeman's summer neighbor on Southport Island, ME. The two discovered a shared love for the natural world—their descriptions of the arrival of spring or the song of a hermit thrush are lyrical—but their friendship quickly blossomed, as each realized she had found in the other a kindred spirit. To read this collection is like eavesdropping on an extended conversation that mixes the mundane events of the two women's family lives with details of Carson’s research and writing and, later, her breast cancer. . . . Few who read these letters will forget these remarkable women and their even more remarkable bond.” —Publishers Weekly “Darting, fresh, sensuous, pleasingly elliptical at times, these letters also serve to tether the increasingly deified Carson firmly to earth—just where she’d want to be.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “It is not often that a collection of letters reveals character, emotional depth, personality, indeed intellect and talent, as well as a full biography might; these letters do all that.” —The New York Times Book Review “Provides insight into the creative process and a look into the daily lives of two intelligent, perceptive women whose family responsibilities were, at times, almost crushing.” —Library Journal “Dotted with vivid observations of the natural world and perceptive commentary on friendship, family, fame, and life itself, Always, Rachel will appeal to readers interested in biography and women’s studies as well as those drawn to nature writing and the history of the environmental movement.” —Booklist Online
Author | : Yiyun Li |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0399589112 |
In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. “A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead “What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?” Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Praise for Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life “Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating—and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.”—The Washington Post “Li’s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.’”—The New York Times Book Review “An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.”—The Boston Globe “Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.”—Financial Times “Every writer is a reader first, and Dear Friend is Li’s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.”—Entertainment Weekly “Yiyun Li’s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.”—San Francisco Chronicle