Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence

The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son....

James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal instincts and the importance of upright ethical ideals and virtuous living....

If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head....

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century....

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....

At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself....

Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century....

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen at her witty, observant, intelligent, and sympathetic best, in this collection of her letters written to family and friends....

At long last, millions of Dune fans can now hear the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah....

Eminent historian C. Vann Woodward's Mary Chesnut’s Civil War presents a full and reliable edition of the incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut's journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.

A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s....

Here is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists - Hunter S.Thompson....

Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death's place in our lives....

Over the next ten years, we watch through Michael's eyes as the world reels from the successive shocks of September 11, the 7/7 bombings and the global financial crash.

Written in History: Letters that Changed the World celebrates the great letters of world history, and cultural and personal life. Bestselling, prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects letters that have changed the course of global events or touched a timeless emotion....

Powerful, haunting, and unforgettable, this remarkable gathering of original documents, including never-before-published letters and papers, creates a day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians.

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over 22 years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters....

Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon is a fascinating glimpse of the private Bruce Lee behind the public image—a man with the patience and concern to dedicate as much effort to crafting a thoughtful personal answer to the letter of a young fan as to those from his old friends and associates.

Puto cáncer, en palabras de la autora, se trata del diario íntimo de una paciente oncológica...

Here is the astonishing and eloquent diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, the Union soldier featured in Ken Burns' highly acclaimed PBS television documentary The Civil War....

Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors....

The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks....

Selected from his many books and papers, the Andrew Murray Collection on Prayer serves as a manual for Christians who long to rediscover the joy of a life devoted to serving with Christ to bring love to a hurting world....

The View from the Cheap Seats brings together, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of Neil Gaiman's outstanding nonfiction on topics and people close to his heart....

The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in fifty glittering pieces of gold.

Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon is a fascinating glimpse of the private Bruce Lee behind the public image—a man with the patience and concern to dedicate as much effort to crafting a thoughtful personal answer to the letter of a young fan as to those from his old friends and associates; an extremely active man never too busy to make time for an old family friend in need of simple companionship; a man who never wrote without careful thought, and never thought from the head alone, but always from the head and heart together.

📖 La Hoja en Blanco Una novela corta de realismo mágico sobre dos escritores conectados por cartas que desafían el tiempo y el silencio, y unidos por un destino que desconocían. Una tormenta inesperada. Un taxi compartido. Y una hoja en blanco que no tardará en llenarse con palabras imposibles de ignorar. Abril y Tomás son dos escritores en momentos distintos, pero igualmente inciertos. Lo que comienza como una simple correspondencia pronto se transforma en un intercambio que pone en movimiento recuerdos, silencios, intuiciones… y algo más. 🌬️ A veces, las palabras que más ...

The Blank Page A short novel of magical realism about two writers connected by letters that defy time and silence, and united by a destiny they never expected. An unexpected storm. A shared taxi. And a blank page that won’t stay empty for long. Abril and Tomás are two writers at different—yet equally uncertain—moments in their lives. What begins as a simple exchange of letters quickly transforms into a correspondence that sets memories, silences, intuitions… and something more into motion. 🌬️ Sometimes, the words we most need don’t come from within us. Sometimes, it’s the ...

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK O confesiune magistrală aflată la granița dintre intimitatea unui jurnal și densitatea unei autobiografii, Crezul lui Fuentes ne poartă pe urmele artei și istoriei până la cele mai importante evenimente care i-au conturat lumea și pasiunile. O carte multifațetată, în care autorul mexican construiește o hartă trasată din gânduri și amintiri, alternând teme precum iubirea și prietenia cu pasaje despre Buñuel, Faulkner și Wittgenstein.