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In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects letters celebrating weird and wonderful dads.

De Profundis is a 50,000-word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897; he was not allowed to send it, but took it with him upon release. In it he repudiates Lord Alfred for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting."

Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. They are taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there is a mass of Churchill’s correspondence. Several of the letters included have never appeared in book form before.

Letter to My Younger Self is back with another incredible selection of letters from well-known figures. In this edition, interviewer Jane Graham asks one simple question to a wide range of women from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport, literature and business. This collection of 50 of the most moving, inspiring and honest letters includes Fearne Cotton on battling imposter syndrome, Billie Piper on feeling burnt out, Dame Kelly Holmes on not giving up, Nancy Sinatra on marrying young and so much more.

Kennedy steered the nation away from the brink of nuclear war, initiated the first nuclear test ban treaty, created the Peace Corps, and launched American on its mission to the moon and beyond. JFK inspired a nation, particularly the massive generation of baby boomers, injecting hope and revitalizing faith in the American project. 2013 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Kennedy's untimely death, a milestone to be marked by an avalanche of new books on his life and importance.

A brand-new collection from the internationally best-selling author of Letters of Note.

Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask some of the best known, most interesting and most successful figures in entertainment, politics, food, sport and business to give advice, offer hope and share a few jokes with their younger selves. They opened up, in ways they never had, to interviewer Jane Graham, reflecting on their lives and themselves with affection, sympathy and sometimes disbelief.

The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman.

Cartas a un joven poeta, contiene, desde la serenidad y la plenitud de un auténtico iniciado en los misterios de la Poesía, certeras reflexiones sobre el amor, la soledad, el destino, la religiosidad, la muerte y el sexo. Cartas a un joven poeta, más que una serie de consejos relevantes para la escritura de un autor neófito, se convierten en un amuleto contra la angustia y el sinsentido de la existencia. Descubrirlas es entrar en contacto con el rico mundo interior de un autor clásico de la modernidad.

Writer and activist Ben Rawlence first began writing to his eldest daughter before she was born, expressing his fears at what it would mean to raise children in a rapidly changing world where the very concept of the future was in jeopardy. Climate change poses a fundamental challenge to parenting. What knowledge should we pass on? What future are we preparing our children for?

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.

It's hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity; its singular ease; the way it can wax and wane; its ability to cause uncommon pain. This is the territory of novels and letters, poems and graphic novels - which is where The Virago Book of Friendship steps in. Celebratory, but also explanatory and wide in scope - from the Bible to Yellowface, from school friends to the loss of friends in old age - this wonderful book includes Jane Austen, Nora Ephron, Toni Morrison, Vivian Gornick, Helen Garner, LM Montgomery, Dolly Alderton - among nearly one hundred others.

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 from both the North and the South who experienced firsthand the changing course of the Civil War. New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and author Allen C. Guelzo delivers an invaluable and sobering firsthand perspective of the Civil War’s turning point.

À travers ces lettres poétiques émouvantes, envoyées pour la plupart à son Bien-Aimé, une histoire d’Amour se dessine, une histoire qui n’a pas pu se vivre sur Terre mais qui perdure après la mort de l’Aimé. Certaines lettres, mises en chanson, toujours écrites de façon simple et vivante, racontent la joie, la force du désir mais aussi le manque de l’Aimé, le doute, l’incompréhension avec toujours l’Amour en toile de fond.

Das Jahr 1797 ist im Schaffen von Goethe und Schiller nicht nur ein überaus produktives Jahr, sondern auch ein Jahr, in dem zu großen Teilen einige ihrer späterhin bekanntesten und meist gelesenen Texte entstehen. Für beide Dichter ist das Nachdenken über diesen Gegenstand von höchster praktischer Bedeutung. Während Goethe das schnell anwachsende Material seiner Faust-Tragödie dramatisch zu verdichten sucht, arbeitet Schiller an seinem Drama «Wallenstein», das über die Monate hin zu monumentaler Größe anschwillt.

Inspired by a famed correspondence handbook penned by a persnickety Victorian who had strong opinions on how to lick a stamp, cultural critic Rachel Syme has rewritten the staid letter-writing rules of yore for the letter writers of today. Syme insists you must stuff your envelopes with flat frivolities (and includes guides for how to press flowers and make a matchbook-mark), teaches you how to perfume a parcel, and encourages you to cultivate your own ritual around keeping up with your correspondence.

Para los lectores, hay pocas experiencias tan asombrosas e inolvidables como la primera lectura de Kafka. No importa lo que uno haya leído antes: cruzarse con una de sus novelas o cuentos, con un fragmento de sus diarios, es aprender a leer de un modo nuevo. La prosa precisa y de resonancias...

Good Night… Whispers of the Heart is a collection of real love notes covering different themes, all thoughtfully composed for the private listening of a partner. What you find here are examples of love notes that could be found in bedrooms, safety deposit boxes, and even the proverbial 20th-21st century shoe boxes — all lost to time and rich in meaning.

Mary fears she’s losing the two people she most admires—her lover and her father—after she’s lost her reputation. She regains them with the publication of Frankenstein. As Scott is crafting his biography of the Shelleys and Godwins a century later, he fears that he’s losing his audience and his wife. He regains them with the publication of his other “work” he’s authoring at the same—The Great Gatsby. As eternal celebrities of Western culture—the Shelleys, the Godwins, and the Fitzgeralds—their brief victories are dramatically retold in What Light Was as dialogues, verse, and meditations.

The rebellion against British rule began in the mid-19th century and turned into the freedom struggle in 1857. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent movement, armed revolutionaries also fought for independence. Among these brave martyrs, Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s name shines brightly in history. He sacrificed his life for the nation’s freedom. The letters he wrote to his family, friends, and leaders have been collected. These letters are presented by the Publication Department in this audiobook.