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Martha Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn Catherine Mary McLoughlin xvi, 264 pages : 24 cm OL12100497W
The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf,Alison Bechdel After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941… OL1347349W
Letters between Forster and Isherwood on homosexuality and literature Letters between Forster and Isherwood on homosexuality and literature E. M. Forster "The correspondence between E.M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood is a fascinating record of the professional and personal lives of two major British writers from the 1930s to the 1960s. The letters… OL14989447W
The letters of Ernest Hemingway The letters of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway The "first volume encompasses his youth, his experience in World War I, and his arrival in Paris. The letters reveal a more complex person than Hemingway's tough-guy public persona would suggest: dev… OL16666992W
A card from Angela Carter A card from Angela Carter Susannah Clapp This is a unique and dazzling portrait of Angela Carter, who was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century: much studied, copied and adored. When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had… OL16772547W
Here and Now Here and Now Paul Auster,J. M. Coetzee,Paul Auster The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books f… OL16811783W
Under the sun Under the sun Bruce Chatwin This marvelous selection of letters reveals a passionate man and storyteller par excellence. They provide a window into Chatwin's life and strikingly detailed insights regarding his literary ambition… OL17309235W
Wm & H'ry Wm & H'ry J. C. Hallman Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers. Literary types know Henry James; psychologists, philosophers, and religion scholars know William James. In reality, the brothers' min… OL17899530W
Love's civil war Love's civil war Elizabeth Bowen The love affair between writer Elizabeth Bowen & Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed after their first meeting in 1941 & continued over the next 30 years until Bowen's death in 1973. When Rit… OL17999927W
The Mitfords The Mitfords Charlotte Mosley Collects a selection of the more than twelve thousand letters sent between the six Mitford sisters, who were comprised of Jessica, a communist; Debo, the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy, a best-selling … OL18367299W
Guy Davenport and James Laughlin Guy Davenport and James Laughlin James Laughlin,Guy Davenport xxi, 262 pages ; 22 cm OL1945279W
Letters to his neighbor Letters to his neighbor Marcel Proust Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-l… OL19714563W
Letters to Véra Letters to Véra Vladimir Nabokov "A collection of letters between Vladimir Nabokov and his wife, Vera"-- "The letters of the great writer to his wife--gathered here for the first time--chronicle a decades-long love story and docume… OL20012494W
Love, Henri Love, Henri Henri J. M. Nouwen Over the course of his life, Henri Nouwen wrote thousands of letters to friends, acquaintances, parishioners, students, and readers of his work all around the world. He corresponded in English, Dutch… OL20046325W
The letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh The letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh,Nancy Mitford Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, matched wits and exchanged insults in more than five hundred letters, a continuous irreverent dialogue … OL2233717W
The Journals and Letters The Journals and Letters Fanny Burney Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her even… OL2251989W
The Akeing Heart The Akeing Heart Peter Haring Judd Helen Sutherland in the Sylvia Townsend Warner Journal (April 2020) definitely approved of the Handheld Press edition. ‘In reviewing [the original edition of] The Akeing Heart … I identified a number… OL24627915W
C.S. Lewis letters to children C.S. Lewis letters to children C.S. Lewis A collection of letters from the English author of the Narnia books to a variety of children. OL260634W
Water From A Bucket Water From A Bucket Charles Henri Ford "In an unpublished preface to "Les Fleurs du Mal," Baudelaire wrote "Does one show the audience all the rags and cosmetics, the pulleys and chains, the corrections and scribbled proofs - in a word, a… OL4470658W
The Staircase Letters The Staircase Letters Arthur Motyer,Carol Shields,Elma Gerwin Of the magic of everyday life in the shadow of death'chickens must be cooked for dinner parties, and grandson's questions about God must be answered!'The Staircase Letters is a moving and profound st… OL5879042W
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