The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As a publication, a letter collection is distinct from an archive, which is a repository of original documents. M. Barrie, General Eisenhower, Meghan Markle, Sojourner Truth, Salman Rushdie, Panti Bliss, Nelson Mandela, Robert F. Either by other sovereigns – she also wanted to be number one sovereign in the eyes of the world – or by celebrated personalities. This is definitely the book you should go for if you wish to offer a nicely designed hardcover with an elegant dust jacket.

She hated the clergy generally, although obviously she had to deal with it a lot as head of the Church of England. But as he tried to make sense of the cancer, recording every twist and turn in a searingly honest, hilarious and heart-breaking daily journal, Alison’s funny, touching letters became an important part of his route back to physical and mental health. What you get instead is this apparently tweedy, peevish, reactionary figure – but underneath it amazingly perceptive and very funny. Apart from anything else, he is – and has always been thought to be – one of the great 20th century English stylists. Malala Yousafzai, Tilda Swinton, Albert Einstein, Nick Cave, Queen Elizabeth II, Kermit the Frog, Pablo Picasso, Harvey Milk, J.Letters from Tove) offers readers the privilege of spending time inside an intelligent, creative, curious, generous, funny, unsentimental mind. It will also be available for download within 48 hours, and you can find it either as a new resource, or under 'Alternative versions' above.

After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. A former NSW Chairman of the Australian Small Business Association he has practised as a solicitor and barrister since 1973.This intimate correspondence spanning thirty years covers her final years as an editor at Andre Deutsch, her retirement and immersion in her own writing, her growing fame and encroaching old age, and gives a fascinating insight into a life fully lived. He has been King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge and Professor of Poetry at Harvard.

Funny, tragic, brilliantly incisive, historic, lyrical, romantic and studiedly offensive, this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. Does the book contain anything that teachers would wish to know about before recommending in class (strong language, sensitive topics etc. And the correspondents themselves clearly realised that they were playing with fire, that this was a loose cannon – and as such all the more fascinating. At that table Andy mused about who it might have been who mentored Daniel to prepare him to live out his faith in God in the way he did. A wonderful collection of missives that celebrate, eulogise, and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.

Read it for yourself, but also put multiple copies into the hands of young disciples to help prepare them for Babylon. In the quality of the English, the syntax, the crispness which is such a distinctive aspect of Decline and Fall. This books is a series of imagined letters from an imagined mentor to Daniel as he goes into exile in Babylon. It’s very seldom in her letters that you find what we might (incorrectly) think of as a Victorian narrowness of viewpoint. And all this international experience becomes the prism through which this fascinating correspondence is filtered.