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Briefe an Milena Franz Kafka · 1952 · ★ 3.9 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923. Publication history ----------------------- The letters were originally published in German in 1952 as Briefe an Milena, edited by Willy Haas, who decided to delete certain passages which he thought might hurt people who were still alive at the time. The collection was first published in… Shares: Correspondance, German Authors, Correspondence, Authors

Eine Jugend in Deutschland Ernst Toller · 1933 · ★ 5.0 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Eine Jugend in Deutschland ist eine Autobiographie von Ernst Toller, die 1933 erschien. Der Autor erinnert sich seines Lebens bis zum Jahr 1924. (Quelle: Wikipedia) Shares: German Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Letters of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens · 1966 · ★ 4.3 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Moderate Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer… Shares: Poets, Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

C.S. Lewis letters to children C. S. Lewis · 1985 · ★ 4.4 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A collection of letters from the English author of the Narnia books to a variety of children. Shares: Correspondance, Correspondence, Authors

Correspondence Hector Berlioz · 1844 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs is both autobiography and artistic manifesto, gathering the composer's recollections and correspondence into a vivid self-portrait of Romantic genius. Its style is theatrical, ironic, impassioned, and often mordantly comic, moving between intimate confession, aesthetic polemic, travel narrative, and cultural criticism.… Shares: Correspondance, Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

Cowper Goldwin Smith · 1800 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this masterful biography, Goldwin Smith presents the life and works of William Cowper (1731-1800), whom Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “the best modern poet". Tracing Cowper's life—from his beginnings in England to his death—Smith analyzes his major lyrical works and as well as his hymns. Smith also offers an examination of the writer's lasting influence on Romantic poetry. Shares: Poets, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Anton Reiser Karl Philipp Moritz · 1978 · ★ 4.0 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate xv, 456 p. ; 23 cm Shares: German Authors, Biography & Memoir

Vailima letters Robert Louis Stevenson · 1895 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Robert Louis Stevenson, long recognized as a master storyteller and essayist, was also a prolific letter writer. His letters, some 2800 pieces of correspondence, have been published in eight volumes. Volume VII covers the period from September 1890 to January 1893. Shares: Correspondence, Authors, Biography & Memoir

The prelude William Wordsworth · 1850 · ★ 3.9 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth. Shares: Poets, Poetry

Poems Lord Byron · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm Shares: Correspondance, Correspondence, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir belles-lettres by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various… Shares: 20th Century, Correspondence, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Lettres portugaises Gabriel de Guilleragues · 1669 · ★ 3.6 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Note on authorship: These “Lettres portugaises” were originally published as having been written by an unknown author in Portuguese and translated into French, also by an unknown translator. Eventually, they came to be ascribed to Sister Marianna Alcoforado, and countless editions were published throughout the centuries under her name. More recent scholarship, however, has considered more… Shares: Correspondance, Correspondence

A preface to Wordsworth John Arthur Purkis · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to… Shares: Poets, Authors, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Italienische Reise Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1860 · ★ 3.8 · 588p · ≈ 19h · Challenging RE choice of the following extracts has been governed by the wish to provide interesting reading-matter for the class-room. From selections made with such an aim much of what fell within the wide range of Goethe's interest is excluded. His observations on the geological and mineral ogical character of the regions through which he passed, his notes on botany, on the nature of the soil and on meth… Shares: German Authors, Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

Livro do Desassossego Fernando Pessoa · 1982 · ★ 4.4 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull… Shares: Poets, Authors, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Yeats's Autobiography Joseph Ronsley · 1968 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Poets, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Oliver Goldsmith Washington Irving · 1840 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Irving wrote this biographical sketch of the poet Goldsmith from his estate, Sunnyside, near Tarrytown, N.Y. It is a biography of the english author oliver Goldsmith a sad life and he didn't profit from his work. Shares: Poets, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Among my books James Russell Lowell · 1870 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A book of essays by American poet and writer James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). There are six essays: Dryden Witchcraft Shakespeare Once More New England Two Centuries Ago Lessing Rousseau and the Sentimentalists Shares: Poets, Poetry

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