What has been missing from biographical accounts of Iris Murdoch has been her life in her own words. Living on Paper gives, for the first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years.

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 flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the rest of Europe reach a crescendo. When war is declared,...

From coast to coast more people are keeping their television sets on much later, more nights because of Cliff Arquette. A regular on NBC's Jack Paar Show Cliff's meteoric rise to fame among late evening watchers is the result of his portrayal of a likable old codger Charley Weaver, who hails from Mount Idy, and who reads side-splitting letters from his Mamma. These letters are a complete report on the doin's in the old home town. Through the magic...

Contains a collection of letters written by the author to a former employer in Denver over the course of several years, in which she describes her frontier life homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming.

'This is a book of personal letters that continue to tell the story of my life …' Letters tell stories, too. Written words can move hearts. From the multi-awarded Asian-American writer comes a new collection of personal letters that captured long-lasting memories. Just like its predecessor Letters: Book 1, this companion is a non-fiction that continues the life story of Bienvenido N. Santos. Follow the exhilarating undertakings of the pioneering...

La más bella carta de amor. "Acabas de cumplir ochenta y dos años. Has encogido seis centímetros, no pesas más de cuarenta y cinco kilos y sigues siendo bella, elegante y deseable". Así comienza la bella carta que el filósofo y periodista André Gorz escribió a su esposa, Dorine, pocos meses antes de que los dos apareciesen muertos en su casa. Gorz fue fundador de Le Nouvel Observateur y compañero de viaje de Sartre. Sin embargo, no es la...

Un barroco de trinchera es el fiel y amoroso testimonio de una amistad proyectada entre los extremos norte y sur del continente americano. Estas veintiocho cartas reponen el humor y la ternura de Perlongher, sus primeras inquietudes literarias, su vida sentimental y académica, su juego constante con el lenguaje y la belleza de una potencia poética sin par. Pero este libro es además el reflejo de los vaivenes políticos de los años setenta y ochenta...

If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of print for decades, and even when it was in print it appeared in scholarly volumes of Melville's complete correspondence, aimed at the academy. The Divine...

Regarded as a series of pictures of the society of the time, the Diary is unsurpassed for vivid Coloring and truthful delineation. As such alone it would possess a strong claim upon our attention, but how largely is our interest increased, when we find that the figures which fill the most prominent positions in the foreground of these pictures, are those of the most noble, most gifted, and Most distinguished men of the day! To mention but a few.

Regarded as a series of pictures of the society of the time, the Diary is unsurpassed for vivid Coloring and truthful delineation. As such alone it would possess a strong claim upon our attention, but how largely is our interest increased, when we find that the figures which fill the most prominent positions in the foreground of these pictures, are those of the most noble, most gifted, and Most distinguished men of the day! To mention but a few.