Selected Letters And Diaries

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780714545608

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Diaries and Selected Letters by Mikhail Bulgakov Pdf

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of The Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diaries were seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his thoughts to letters to his friends and family, as well as to public figures such as Stalin and his fellow Soviet writer Gorky.This ample selection from the diaries and letters of Mikhail Bulgakov, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into the author's world and into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime.

Author : Carl Nielsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8763545969

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Selected Letters and Diaries by Carl Nielsen Pdf

Author : Georges Philias Vanier
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550023435

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Georges Vanier, Soldier by Georges Philias Vanier Pdf

Chronicles the wartime experiences of Georges Vanier, who was Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967 and who served four years in the First World War.

Author : John Dee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108050562

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John Dee's Diary, Catalogue of Manuscripts and Selected Letters by John Dee Pdf

These editions (1842-1920) are fascinating for the immediacy of John Dee's accounts of his life as a Renaissance scholar.

Author : Kathleen Ferrier
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843830124

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Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier by Kathleen Ferrier Pdf

Within a decade this former telephone exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent Garden or before royalty at private parties. She must have been fun to know, and from this collection of letters, just over three hundred of them gathered from sources in Britain, America, Canada and Holland, as well as twelve years of her personal diaries, what emerges provides a sunny picture in the gloomy landscape of post-Second World War days."

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Vintage Classic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Women novelists, English
ISBN : 0099518252

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Selected Diaries by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded he

Author : Nile Clarke Kinnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015024785480

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A Hero Perished by Nile Clarke Kinnick Pdf

"A Hero Perished" tells Nile Kinnick's story. This grandson of an Iowa governor, the son of parents who disciplined him to strive for his measure of greatness, became a Heisman Trophy winner and national celebrity through a combination of talent and circumstance. Following his college successes, Kinnick began legal study to prepare for a political career, but with the approach of war he entered the Navy Air Corps to refashion himself as a fighter pilot. Assigned to the carrier USS "Lexington" on its premier cruise, he took off in a defective planeOCoand his death shocked a nation grown almost used to tragic loss. For the first time, Kinnick tells his own tale through his engaging lettersOCoall but one previously unpublishedOCoand his diary, printed in its entirety for the first time. The result is a human, intimate look at the true person behind the myth, revealing both his foibles and his essential principles. "A Hero Perished" also includes a definitive text of Kinnick's moving Heisman Award acceptance speech and his impassioned commencement supper address, calling on the new Iowa graduates to achieve moral courage in a time of depression and war. An illuminating comment on a time and attitude that have passed, "A Hero Perished" is of and about a football player, but it is not a football bookOCoit is far more. This volume displays KinnickOCowho was, despite his great gifts and achievements, a vulnerable and decent young manOCoin a time of great change and peril when a phase of our culture was passing away."

Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571265923

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Letters from a Life Vol 2: 1939-45 by Benjamin Britten Pdf

In May 1939 Britten and Pears disembarked at Montreal at the start of their American visit, which was to be a period of intense musical activity and new personal relationships. At the same time, the relationship between Britten and Pears deepened into a partnership that was to endure for almost forty years.Their absence from England during the first years of the war led to sharp public comment and controversy, much of it documented here. On their return from America in 1942, hostility to their pacifist convictions and to their homosexuality resurfaced. Prejudice and subterfuge even affected the première of Peter Grimes in 1945, although it could not prevent the opera from being an unprecedented success.The letters in this second volume from the years 1939 to 1945 are among the most fascinating of the correspondence, and - supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation - offer a unique insight into American history, politics and culture during the Second World War.

Author : Margaret Conrad,Toni Laidlaw,Donna Smyth
Publisher : Formac
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015051176645

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No Place Like Home by Margaret Conrad,Toni Laidlaw,Donna Smyth Pdf

These colourful diaries and personal letters provide fascinating insights into the lives of Nova Scotian women in periods of rapid and dramatic historical change. The editors have discovered a wealth of material chronicling the lives of women since the late-eighteenth century, women with rich and varied life-experiences: missionaries, teachers, office workers, farmers, housekeepers and factory workers, both young and old, rural and urban. No Place Like Home offers immediate, intimate reflections on the remarkable range of experiences enjoyed--and suffered--by Nova Scotia women.

Author : Etty Hillesum
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802839592

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Etty by Etty Hillesum Pdf

In the midst of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty's writings reveal a young Jewish woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Through this splendid translation by Arnold J. Pomerans, commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, readers everywhere will resonate with the spirit of this amazing young woman.

Author : Ignatius of Loyola,Joseph Munitiz
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141907642

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Personal Writings by Ignatius of Loyola,Joseph Munitiz Pdf

One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and unique spiritual thinker and visionary. The works gathered here provide a first-hand, personal introduction to this remarkable character: a man who turned away from the Spanish nobility to create the revolutionary Jesuit Order, inspired by the desire to help people follow Christ. His Reminiscences describe his early life, his religious conversion following near-paralysis in battle, and his spiritual and physical ordeals as he struggled to assist those in need, including plague, persecution and imprisonment. The Spiritual Exercises offer guidelines to those seeking the will of God, and the Spiritual Diary shows Ignatius in daily mystical contact with God during a personal strugg;e. The Letters collected here provide an insight into Ignatius' ceaseless campaign to assist those seeking enlightenment and to direct the young Society of Jesus.

Author : Jan Marsh
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781849945592

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The Illustrated Letters and Diaries of the Pre-Raphaelites by Jan Marsh Pdf

The story of how a group of precocious young artists shook up the British art establishment, told through their works, letters and diaries. An illustrated history of the linked lives and loves of a group of supremely talented artists of late Victorian Britain through their passionate writings. It features the painters, poets, critics and designers: Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Fanny Cornforth, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, William and Janey Morris, Christina, Dante Gabriel, and William Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Bell Scott and Lizzie Siddal. The artistic aspirations and achievements of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood are revealed alongside the interwoven dramas of their personal lives, in letters, diaries and reminiscences, while their genius is displayed in vivid paintings, drawings, designs and poems. The Pre-Raphaelites was a charmed circles of love, friendship and art. Within an ever-changing flow of affections, and intimacies as richly patterned as a tapestry, they worked together as companions, lovers and partners. They shared tragedy as well as happiness, critical hostility as well as success, even the griefs of infidelity and discord. These creative partnerships, which also created the firm William Morris and Co, revitalised Victorian art and design. The new edition publishes in time for the start of the Burne Jones Exhibition at Tate Britain, starting in October 18. It is a vital book in understanding the Pre-Raphaelite art, which remains as popular and moving as ever.

Author : David W. Forbes
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824857868

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In Haste with Aloha by David W. Forbes Pdf

This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonālani. In Haste with Aloha illuminates the last five years of the Queen’s life and makes available an important record of royal social life and customs in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i. Much of her earlier correspondence has been published in two books by the late Alfons L. Korn: The Victorian Visitors: An Account of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1861–1866 and News from Molokai: Letters between Peter Kaeo and Queen Emma, 1873–1876. In her letters, almost all of which were written in English, Queen Emma provides a rare account of ali‘i (royal) perspective, endowing modern readers and researchers with insight far beyond the limited available documentation of public speeches or printed statements. Besides the nuances of correspondence between the Queen and her recipients, there is much to be considered and analyzed in her descriptions of ali‘i, many of them relatives to Emma, including Bernice Pauahi Bishop and Ruth Ke‘elikōlani. With few comparable Hawaiian historical primary resource texts in print, In Haste with Aloha is a welcome addition, making accessible a preserved and treasured collection of documents drawn primarily from the Hawai‘i State Archives, along with diaries in Bishop Museum Library and Archives. Fully transcribed and with annotation by Forbes, editor of the monumental four-volume Hawaiian National Bibliography and annotator of Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani, this text sheds light on the lives of Hawai‘i’s ruling class in the decade leading up to climactic political transition.

Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571265916

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Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39 by Benjamin Britten Pdf

Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends, among them W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This was a time of prodigious musical creativity, a growing awareness of his sexuality, and the dawning of his political convictions. Most importantly, during this period Britten met Peter Pears and established the musical and personal relationship that was to last a lifetime. Volume One comes to a close in May 1939, when Britten, accompanied by Pears, departs for North America.The letters and diaries in this illuminating first volume and its successor are supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation. Together they constitute a comprehensive portrait not only of the composer but of an age.

Author : John Dee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : History
ISBN : ONB:+Z204246702

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The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts, from the Original Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge by John Dee Pdf