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An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849–1916), a governess and companion to several prominent American families. Among the collection were one hundred thirty-five letters… more

Le début du XXe siècle voit s’étendre la gamme des industries alimentaires, avec, notamment, la confection de plats prêts à consommer sous forme de conserves, de semi-conserves ou de surgelés.L’hôtellerie passe au stade d’industrie. La mult… more

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great poets of the Romantic era. But his intellectual interests ranged well beyond poetry – into philosophy, theology, and history, among other subjects. He was admired as much by contemporaries for hi… more

This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intell… more

The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth’s lonely death in Paris, new e… more

Michael Bloch’s edition of the intimate correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, from the moment they met in 1931 up to their marriage in 1937, also containing Wallis Simpson’s diary of their affair in form of her weekly letters t… more

The Nobel Prize for Literature has drawn unprecedented attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international reputation, some still see Heaney as an earthbou… more

Connaissez vous la Vie d’Ésope ?Savez-vous seulement qui était Ésope ?Vous avez la possibilité de l’apprendre très simplement avec ce petit livre.Saviez-vous que Notre Jean de La Fontaine, avez puisé dans le répertoire d’Ésope, pour bon nom… more

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder “what Royko would have said” about some outrageous piece of news. One th… more

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre’s letters, maintaining that her own letters to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir’s adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangula… more

Little Women’s “Marmee” is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real woman behind the fiction—Louisa May Alcott’s own mother, Abigail—has for more than a century remained shrouded in mystery. Scholars believe… more

Nine years younger than Gandhi, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari or Rajaji was described by him as his “conscience keeper” and, at one time, as his “only possible successor”. As his southern general, Rajaji campaigned for freedom, promoting khad… more

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer … more

The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas TranströmerOne day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the Uni… more

Recently a long-lost journal belonging to Dracula author Bram Stoker was discovered in his great-grandson Noel’s dusty attic. Published now to coincide with the centenary of Stoker’s death, the text of this stunning find, written between 18… more

From the bestselling Letters to Penthouse series comes another spicy collection of letters written to one of the most popular men’s magazines.

Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI of Scotland (1838)

Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, otherwise known as Isaac Asimov, was an American author of science fiction and popular books of science. Isaac, or “Ike” as his friends called him, was a master of hard science fiction, but he also wrote mysteries a… more

Few American writers have revealed their private as well as their public selves so fully as Upton Sinclair, and virtually none over such a long lifetime (1878—1968). Sinclair’s writing, even at its most poignant or electrifying, blurred the… more

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis—the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ—was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and transla… more