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Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1954
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
123 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access to the astounding findings of contemporary theoretical physics and makes tangible the contours of space and time--those very real curves along which apples fall and planets orbit.
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters-to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged-written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
Author
Series
Publisher
Collier-Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants--both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career--both his successes and his failures--and his motivations for becoming a biologist....
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 620 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the future...
Author
Series
Fear and loathing letters volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This first volume of the Fear and Loathing Letters begins with a high school essay written in 1955 - when Hunter S. Thompson was a wise (perhaps too wise) teenager in Louisville - and takes us through 1967, when the publication of Hell's Angels made the author an international celebrity (and nearly resulted in his death). In the intervening years, Thompson's prolific and often profound correspondence gives us an unforgettable vista of the America...
16) Letters
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his intimate thoughts on life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family and scientists over the decades A prolific correspondent, Dr. Oliver Sacks--who describes himself variously in these pages as "a philosophical physician," "an astronomer of the inward," a "neuropathological Talmudist," and "a consummate...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt"--
Author
Publisher
Red Barn Books of VT
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 185 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1968, under the threat of the draft, Loring M. Bailey Jr. enlisted in the Army with the option for Officers Candidate School. From his induction in June 1968 and basic training in Fort Knox Kentucky, he began a series of letters to his family and friends. With an Infantry assignment, he entered nine weeks of Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk Louisiana, followed by nine months of combat infantry in Vietnam. Writing stations...
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