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The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her.

‘Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational … Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense … This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced … Splendid’ William Boyd, Guardian...

On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters. But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship...

At the turn of the millennium, American-born Paige Parker and investment guru Jim Rogers spend three years—1,101 days to be exact—driving over six continents in their 'sunburst yellow' coupe and trailer, ultimately setting a Guinness World Record. During the epic journey, Paige's world view...

‘A love story told in exquisitely poetic letters’ DAILY MAIL ‘A powerful and tender tale of love and war.’ SUNDAY MIRROR Torn apart by war, their letters meant everything… ‘My love. I am writing to you without knowing where you are but I will find you after all these long...

As fresh and poignant today as when they were written, these touching letters capture the heart of everyday life during the Civil War. Set both at home in Florida and on the front, the letters were written by two generations of families whose members included radical secessionists, moderates, and even a few Unionists.

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of...

O primeiro lançamento dos diários de Carolina Maria de Jesus registra os meses em que a escritora morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960. Edição ampliada e integral, com conteúdo inédito e introdução de Conceição Evaristo e Vera Eunice de Jesus. Com narração de Zezé Motta. Com edição integral, ampliada com conteúdo inédito e refeita a partir dos manuscritos originais da autora, este primeiro volume de Casa de alvenaria abarca os meses em que Carolina Maria de Jesus morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960, após deixar a favela do Canindé.

Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip.

Winner of the 2015 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is...

Two unforgettable women from opposite poles of power in Maine forge an uplifting bond through good old-fashioned letter writing that helps them navigate the COVID crisis. Both women bring civility, grace, wit, and wisdom to the challenge of protecting those who depend on them—in other words, leadership.

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?

Il diario di una vita divisa in quattro lati, come un quadrato perfetto. Ogni lato influenza gli altri, con cesure inevitabili. Lina, arrivata all’ultimo quarto, racconta i suoi anni con irresistibile ironia: è impicciona, libera, disobbediente anche agli acciacchi della vecchiaia. Il rapporto complicato con la figlia, l’amore per i nipoti che vuole far crescere liberi, la passione per il giornalismo, le nuove tecnologie sempre più complicate, i disastri, le dimenticanze.

From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin and she seeks refuge from the everyday...

O livro, que à primeira vista pode parecer seguir a tradição da prosa moralista, com intenção doutrinária, configurada em um manual de conduta, foi escrito pela autora para sua filha, Livia, e revela-se como um manifesto feminista, que defende a educação e a emancipação feminina em uma época em que a sociedade patriarcal não encontrava oposição. Escrito em formato epistolar, a carta escrita de mãe para filha em tom afetuoso elenca os direitos e virtudes das mulheres no mundo oitocentista, sem deixar de alertar sobre os perigos de relações falsas e a importância das boas escolhas.

Die Corona-Pandemie hat diverse Absonderlichkeiten über uns jebracht und mich anjeregt, meine unsortierten Jedanken uffzuschreiben. Weil nicht mal mehr meine Enkel richtig berlinern, halte ick hier die Erjebnisse meiner Jehirntätigkeit quasi in Lautschrift fest. Schließlich kann ick nich zulassen, dass unser wunderbarer Metrolekt janz inner Versenkung verschwindet. In einem Wahnsinns-Anfall zwischen Tatendrang und Depression erblickte CORINNA mitten im ersten Lockdown uff @vortragskunst das Licht der Welt von Instagram.

Friedrich Schlegel nannte sie eine "politische-erotische Natur", und ihr Wohnhaus wurde zum literarischen Epizentrum der Romantik: Caroline Schlegel-Schelling war einer der faszinierendsten Frauen ihrer Zeit. Sigrid Damm präsentiert eine ausgewählte Sammlung der schönsten Briefe von Caroline Schlegel-Schelling - Ein wunderbarer Essay über ein widerspruchreiches Leben.

"Brief an meine Mutter" ist der berührende Erfahrungsbericht eines dramatischen Generationen-Konflikts und gleichzeitig Waris Diries persönlichstes Werk. Als Waris Dirie erfährt, dass ihre Mutter schwer erkrankt ist, zögert sie nicht, sie aus ihrem Heimatland Somalia für eine Operation in ihre Wahlheimat Wien zu holen. Die medizinische Versorgung in Somalia ist noch immer unzureichend, und in Europa kann geholfen werden.

Natürlich: geliebt wird auch heute noch. Die einschlägigen Beteuerungen hingegen werden zu FreeCall-Tarifen übermittelt, werden "gesimst" oder stranden in den Spam-Filtern der Adressaten. Die große, die klassische Form des Liebesbriefes erscheint dagegen geradezu rührend anachronistisch.