Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Letters

Seit der Mitte der sechziger Jahre des 17. Jahrhunderts wuchs, vor allem durch die Iniative des Konigsbergers Martin Kempe, ein Kreis jungerer Literaten aus verschiedenen, zum Teil jenseits der Reichsgrenzen gelegenen Orten des Ostseeraums zusammen, die allesamt mit dem Nurnberger Dichter Sigmund von Birken in Briefverkehr traten und von ihm beraten und gefordert wurden. Der Band teilt alle Bestandteile dieser Korrespondenzen, die erhalten sind, mit, die meisten erstmals, und kommentiert sie ausfuhrlich. Er ermoglicht tiefe Einblicke in die Schwierigkeiten literarischer Produktion auerhalb...

Hand was also renowned as a superb writer. Now, in Reason and Imagination, Constance Jordan offers a unique sampling of the correspondence between Hand and a stellar...

Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities.

Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as inspiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred family letters, edited by the daughter of Ann Petry, is an engaging portrait of black family life from the 1890s...

The mauve life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engrossing to one with an interest in the distinguished correspondents or in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras.

An obscure figure today to all but literary connoisseurs, Gosse was, in his day, a near giant in both England and the United States. Max Beerbohm, that discriminating man, in a mural of prominent figures who were also his friends, sketched Edmund Gosse large among George Bernard Shaw, John Masefield, G. K. Chesterton, John Galsworthy, and Lytton...

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), outstanding among the dedicated fighters for the abolition of slavery, was also an activist in other movements such as women's and civil rights and religious reform. Never tiring in battle, he was "irrepressible, uncompromising, and inflammatory." He antagonized many, including some of his fellow reformers. There were also many who loved and respected him. But he was never overlooked.

His letters, a source of the first magnitude, begin in 1822, when Garrison was seventeen, and end in 1879, the year of his death. They offer an insight into the mind...