Showing results for "Una" in Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence

After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the years that followed, he and Blanche Biggs, a missionary in Papua New Guinea, shared a vibrant correspondence. These conversations encompassed their views on faith, their politics, their humor, the legacy of C. S. Lewis, and their own trials and longings.

Er ist der literarische Magier des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Nobelpreisträger und gefeiertes Genie, Großbürger und Familienvater, mit seiner Frau Katia in jahrzehntelanger Ehe verbunden und zugleich so unglücklich, wie man nur sein kann. Er liebt und darf nicht lieben, die Vorstellungen seiner Zeit stehen ihm im Weg. Was für ein Antrieb zu großer Literatur – und was für ein leidvolles Leben.

I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud’s life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports.

Forty-five episodes from Series 1-8 of the Sony Award-winning BBC Radio comedy show, hosted by Rufus Hound. In this hilarious and revealing show, host Rufus Hound invites his guests to revisit their formative years by dusting off their intimate teenage diaries and reading them out in public for...

Nynne nu med barn og eksmand. En omgangskreds som en ujævn opsamlings-lp. Vand i hovedet af kedsomhed tre kalenderdage om året. Og kronisk stakånde i resten. Énmandsorkesteret Nynne er tilbage med nye dagbogsoptegnelser, eleveret hovedgærde og en døgnrytme som avisbude og sortbrogede køer. Hvis hendes liv blev sendt til syn, ville pladerne blive klippet på stedet. Nynnes dagbog 2 handler om kærlighed, sex, børn, impulskøb i Netto, mænd, veninder, ulovlig import af Red Bull, hurtige ransagninger og tømmermænd - og om den fantastiske mand, hun satser på at møde. Og møder! Børnelæge m.

Da en ung Souha ligger i hospitalssengen mellem sin lille, dødfødte pige og sin mor, vækkes en gnist af vrede i hende. Hele sit liv har hun tilpasset sig andres normer for, hvad en pæn pige er, hvordan man bør gå klædt, hvilken man man skal have, hvilken uddannelse man skal tage, og hvad...

Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combat War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of United States Marine Corps. Written by one marine, Claude R. "Red" Canup, a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II...

Sally Urwin and her husband, Steve, own High House Farm in Northumberland, which they share with Mavis the sheepdog, one very fat pony and many, many sheep. Set in beautiful, wild landscape, and in use for generations, it's the perfect setting for Sally's (sometimes brutally) honest and charming account of farming life. From stock sales to lambing sheds, and out in the fields in snow and on hot summer days, A Farmer's Diary reveals the highs, lows and hard work involved in making a living from the land.

London, 1934. Doreen Bates is working in the same office as E, an older married man. They strike up a passionate affair and Doreen records it all in her diary - secret midnight walks, countryside escapades and stolen moments of intimacy. But Doreen longs for a child with E. Despite all the taboos at the time and against the wishes of E, Doreen gets pregnant and is amazed when twins are born during the war. However, Doreen faces an uncertain future - will E ever leave his wife and join his new family?

Una ricercatrice, ossessionata dalla paura di impazzire, intraprende un’indagine per rompere il silenzio che avvolge la storia della sua bisnonna Elisabeth, detta Betsy — una donna dichiarata schizofrenica e sottoposta a lobotomia negli anni ’50, una delle prime in Francia. Di lei nessuno parla: i figli hanno sempre taciuto, i nipoti ignorano quasi tutto di lei. Attraverso lettere, archivi ospedalieri e interviste ai discendenti, Adèle Yon ricompone l’esistenza di una donna brillante e ribelle, troppo viva per il suo tempo.

Invitado a exponer sus piezas de cerámica en el museo Nissim de Camondo, Edmund de Waal disfrutó del inesperado privilegio de adentrarse en uno de los palacetes más lujosos de París, antigua propiedad de una influyente familia sefardí. Construido por deseo del filántropo y coleccionista de arte Moïse de Camondo en 1912, el edificio acoge desde entonces una extraordinaria colección de arte francés del siglo xviii. Sin embargo, como ocurrió a los antepasados de De Waal, los Ephrussi, también los Camondo se convirtieron pronto en blanco del antisemitismo.

في هذه السيرة المُلهمة ، لم يكن الروائي الكبير "بهاء طاهر" يتوانى عن سرد حكاياته الخاصة بين أبيه و أمّه ، بين "ستيفكا" زوجته و بينه ، أسراره التي عاشها في...

Un colapso ha llevado al hombre que escribe esta correspondencia a un nuevo estado cerebral que no ha dejado en su memoria ni el más mínimo rastro de lo que fue. A lo largo de un año, el que fuera un reconocido lingüista explora su conciencia y, ante la ausencia de recuerdos, recoge una a...