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A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature, growing all manner of plants. While some perished beneath wind and sea-spray, others flourished, creating brilliant, unexpected beauty in the wilderness. Modern Nature is both a diary of the garden and a meditation by Jarman on his own life.

Every day, President Obama received 10,000 letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read 10 of them before going to bed. This is the story of how they shaped his presidency. Together they reveal the diary of a nation. They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, with anger, fear and respect. To Obama is an intimate look at one man's relationship with the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.

No one could have predicted even two years ago that an African American would take the oath of office as president of the United States in January of 2009. For many, the occasion marks the climax to the civil rights movement and the fulfillment of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream that Americans could be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin. This collection, with about 400 letters from Americans of all walks of life, is being created to stand as a symbol of this exciting moment in history.

Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over 70 years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the beating heart of the national elite for decades. He was capable of writing substantial history, such as his priceless material on the abdication crisis from conversations with both the Duke of Windsor and the Queen Mother.

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled Black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.

On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold". And he did write golden words: 14 best-selling James Bond books and an equally energetic flow of letters to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress....

In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the Democratic National Committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977—his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen’s best-selling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse—and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. A wise and unsettling book, Prison Writings is both memoir and manifesto, chronicling Peltier’s life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.

Le vicende raccontate da Isabel Allende in "Paula" hanno suscitato un'attenzione che è andata ben oltre i confini del successo editoriale e di stampa. Dall'uscita del libro in poi Isabel Allende ha cominciato a ricevere lettere che, con modalità e forme diverse, testimoniavano una partecipazione profonda, una intensità di lettura straordinaria. In questo audiolibro potrete acoltarne una selezione: arrivano da tutto il mondo e, per lo più, chi le scrive ha un dramma simile da raccontare, piccoli episodi di sofferenza quotidiana da comunicare, una timidezza da spezzare.

Dal Taccuino dell’aiuto-regista impaginato da Bruno Munari a Parliamo d’altro, passando per L’uovo alla kok, straordinario capolavoro di letteratura gastronomica, per la prima volta sono qui raccolte in un unico volume tutte le opere di Aldo Buzzi (1910-2009), "maestro nascosto" della nostra letteratura. Eclettico, (auto)ironico, imprevedibile, in oltre sessant’anni di scrittura Buzzi conduce il lettore dalla Roma del cinema di Fellini e Lattuada alla New York dell’amico Saul Steinberg, alla Russia di Cechov.

Though Moynihan never wrote an autobiography, he was a gifted author and voluminous correspondent, and in this selection from his letters Steven Weisman has compiled a vivid portrait of Moynihan’s life, in the senator’s own words. Before his four terms as Senator from New York, Moynihan served in key positions under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. His letters offer an extraordinary window into particular moments in history.

Il Camilleri dell'epistolario è un infervorato studente fuorisede. Vive a Roma. È un borsista dell'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. Ha due insigni maestri, Silvio d'Amico e Orazio Costa. Fa subito amicizia con Vittorio Gassman, giovane attore del teatro di posa. Lui studia regia teatrale. È un moderno Robinson Crusoe, che di continuo deve inventarsi un alloggio sempre provvisorio, le suppellettili necessarie, tutti i gesti della giornata tra il lavaggio della biancheria e la ricerca di un ristorantino alla portata delle sue tasche semivuote. Camilleri è giovane, giovanissimo.

This is the Marathi translation of The Diary of a Young Girl - a compilation of diary writings of Anne Frank, a girl who had to resort to hiding along with her family because of the Nazi occupation. This book has received widespread publicity and is one of the most famous literatures of the Nazi era. This book has been translated in more than 60 languages and has received critical acclamation. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp and her diary was successfully retrieved by Miep Gies, who handed it to Anne’s father, the lone survivor from the family.

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.

Convidat a exposar les seves peces de ceràmica al museu Nissim de Camondo, Edmund de Waal va gaudir del sobtat privilegi d’endinsar-se en un dels palauets mes luxosos de París, antiga propietat d’una influent família sefardita. Construt per desig del prestigiós filantrop i col·leccionista d’art Mose de Camondo l’any 1912, l’edifici acull des d’aleshores una extraordinària col·lecció d’art frances del segle xviii. Ben aviat, pero, els Camondo van esdevenir objecte de l’antisemitisme, tal com havia passat als Ephrussi, antecessors de De Waal.

Yeva Skalietska lebt ein normales Schülerinnen-Leben im ukrainischen Charkiw, als der Angriff der russischen Armee am 24. Februar 2022 ihrer Kindheit ein brutales Ende setzt. Denn fortan bestimmen Kriegsgeschehnisse ihren Alltag. Die Heimatstadt wird zerstört, Treffen mit Freundinnen sind nicht möglich, ein normaler Alltag existiert nicht mehr. Yeva ist zutiefst verstört und hält ihre Eindrücke seit Beginn des Krieges in ihrem Tagebuch fest.

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.

Le lettere sono un altro spazio in cui trovare Cesare Pavese. Insieme alle traduzioni, alle poesie, ai romanzi e ai racconti, l’epistolario di Cesare Pavese rappresenta un ulteriore specchio in cui scoprire riflessa l’immagine dell’uomo, di quella costruzione di sé che ha caratterizzato tutto il percorso intellettuale dello scrittore. Uomo e scrittore.

Essayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California’s best-known icon. A literary naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club and Yosemite National Park, Muir left his legacy on the landscape and on paper. But the celebrity of John Muir does not tell the whole story. In Essential Muir, for the first time, Muir's selected writings include those that show his ecological vision without ignoring his racism, providing a more complete portrait of the man.

Zwölf Mädchen. Sie alle schreiben 1968 in das Poesiealbum von Pascale Hugues. Die Adjektive, mit denen sie dichten, lauten klein, süß, bescheiden. Niemals stolz, mutig, ehrgeizig. Diese Eigenschaften sind nur für Männer vorgesehen. 50 Jahre später macht sich Pascale Hugues auf die Suche nach diesen Mädchen, erzählt von ihren Leben als Frauen.