Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Letters

In 1639, Marie migrated to the struggling French colony at Quebec to found the first Ursuline convent in the New World. Over the course of the next thirty-one years, the relationship between Marie and Claude would take shape by means of a trans-Atlantic correspondence in which mother and son shared advice and counsel, concerns and anxieties, and joys and...

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...

Ein besonderes Zeugnis der Zeitgeschichte, der Forschung, der Philosophie und der Padagogik in sechs Jahrzehnten stellen die Briefe Eduard Sprangers dar, die bis 1963 reichen und fruh in der Korrepondenz mit Wilhelm Dilthey in Berlin einsetzen. Die Briefe geben in ihrer Gesamtheit ein unmittelbares Bild der Entwicklung im zeitgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang und sind in diesem Band chronologisch angeordnet.

In this final collection of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and journals, we mark Mrs. Lindbergh's progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight, humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding the essential truth in life's experiences through a hard-won spirituality and a passion for literature.
Between the inevitable squalls of life with her beloved but elusive husband, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she shepherded their five children through whooping cough, horned toads, fiances, the Vietnam War, and...