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Letters Home

de Sylvia Plath

Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February...

Letters of Ted Hughes

de Ted Hughes & Christopher Reid

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as ‘excellent training for conversation with the world’, and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes...

A Life in Letters

de F. Scott Fitzgerald

A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.

In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through...

The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber

de Harrison Kinney & Rosemary A. Thurber

Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive...

Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters---and One Man's Search to Find Them

de Andrew Carroll

From the editor of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller War Letters comes an even more powerful, more revealing collection of rare and previously-unpublished letters from every major war in American history...

Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

de Bruce Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare

"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."

-William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London)

The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines...

Saul Bellow: Letters

de Saul Bellow & Benjamin Taylor

"I hungrily read the book through in three nights, as though I'd stumbled upon a lost Bellow masterpiece only recently unearthed."

-Philip Roth

A literary milestone in its own right, this selection of correspondence...

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

de Jack Kerouac

"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice.

Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process...

Collected Letters, 1944-1967

de Neal Cassady

“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome....  It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady

Neal Cassady is best remembered today...

Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

de John Steinbeck

"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book ReviewFor John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for...

Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949

de Julia Eichelberger

Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain of...

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: Letters and Early Epistolary Writings

de Philip Barnard, Elizabeth Hewitt & Mark L. Kamrath

The Letters and Early Epistolary Writings of Charles Brockden Brown gathers and presents, for the first time, the complete extant correspondence of a key American author, along with early manuscript fictions...

Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier: Revised and Enlarged Edition

de Christopher Fifield

In 1953, at the age of 41, Kathleen Ferrier, England's greatest lyric contralto, lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. Her huge appeal to a wide audience - in concerts, on records, on the radio and...

Out of Silence: A Pianist's Yearbook

de Susan Tomes

Out of Silence' is a diary of a year in Susan Tomes's life as a performer. Taking as its inspiration Schumann's remark that 'I am affected by everything that goes on in the world, and I think it all over in...

Dear Dorothy: Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow

de Nicolas Slonimsky & Electra Slonimsky Yourke

In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play and conduct music of the American avant-garde. From trips to...

The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin

de Richard Bradford

Kingsley Amis was a mimic, jester, father, husband, atheist, pseudo-socialist and clubland Tory boozer with a limitless taste for adultery; Philip Larkin a glum misanthrope who lived in self-imposed solitude....

German Students' War Letters

de Philipp Witkop, A. F. Wedd & Jay Winter

"I can't describe my frame of mind that afternoon. Not for a moment did I feel any fear of death; one simply abandons oneself to fate."—Karl Aldag, killed at Fromelles, France, age 26

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985

de Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin & Michael Wood

This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide...

Selected Letters of William Styron

de William Styron, Rose Styron & R. Blakeslee Gilpin

In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, William Clark Styron, Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of Duke University. The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness,...

Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet

de Frederic Raphael

This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever transacted via the Internet. Also unusual, at least...