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Drawing on a range of examples from classical times to the present, from Cicero to Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig, this Very Short Introduction considers why human beings are drawn to exchanging feelings and ideas via letters and why we continue to be fascinated by them today...

One of The New Statesman's Best Books of the Year One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 One of The New Yorker's 'Best Books We've Read in 2024 So Far' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing...

On its first appearance, The Screwtape Letters was immediately recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology. Now, in it’s 70th Anniversary Year, and having sold over half a million copies, it is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound...

Bloomsbury presents Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill by W. S. Churchill, read by Sean Barrett. Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President...

In Letters to a Young Doctor, Max Bader, an attending surgeon in 1960s New York, corresponds with a third-year medical student. What begins as guidance becomes something riskier: an invitation to face the places medicine would rather look away from. Each letter pairs with a story from his life—moments of rupture and reckoning where mercy isn't an abstraction, but a choice with consequences. A young doctor learns not only how to treat disease, but how to stay human in the process, or risk losing himself.

Letters Laneには、案内人Sophiaのもとへ毎日のように手紙が届きます。 その中からSophiaが選んだ、ある一通の手紙をご紹介。 その手紙から広がる想いや記憶を、Letters Laneの世界観の中で描いた音楽とともにお届けするラジオチャンネル。 嬉しかったこと。 伝えられなかった想い。 忘れられない出来事。 さまざまな想いが綴られた手紙たち。 さあ、今日もSophiaのもとへ一通の手紙が届いています。 どうぞ手紙と音楽が紡ぐ、Letters Laneの世界...

Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Andrew Porter returns to the short story form in this masterful and elegiac new collection. “Porter has quietly become one of the United States’ most reliably great fiction writers.” —NPR Enter the world of San Antonio, Texas. All of these...

A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself. 

Letters of Famous Lives Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of biographies, memoirs, and lives of notable people. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

Letters on Faith Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of Bible stories, sermons, and Christian classics. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

As chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which philosophy is a practical form of self-improvement rather than a matter of argument or wordplay. Seneca's letters to a young friend advise action rather than reflection, addressing the issues that confront every generation: how to achieve a good life; how to avoid corruption and self-indulgence; and how to live without fear of death.

Bloomsbury presents Letters From the Upside by Katya Balen read by Joe Jameson A captivating story about finding friendship and hope … and a place where you can spread your wings. From Carnegie Medal winner Katya Balen. Con has been angry ever since Dad left. He doesn’t want to be. He wants...

A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice...

A fascinating new volume of messages about fatherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads...

In The Kingdom of Everrose, stories are cherished like heirlooms. A land of rose-wrapped palaces, glass bridges, and hidden gardens, where enchanted creatures watch over the skies, the kingdom has always held one story close: the founding legend of Aveline, the first true princess.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC-AD 65), also known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist from the Silver Age of Latin literature. This edition of Seneca's Epistles includes all 124 of the letters in a single volume, with explanatory notes, an appendix, and an index of the names occurring in the text. The letters were written by Seneca during his retirement and sent to his friend Lucilius Junior, a procurator of Sicily.

The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son.

An irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- 'Truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it' Vincenzo Latronico A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said. M...

A splendid new volume of missives about art, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. Vincent Van Gogh curses the stare of the blank canvas. Salvador Dali contemplates mailing a piece of his 'lobster-colored pajamas' to Federico Lorca. Hollis Frampton, to the MoMA, demands...

A powerful new volume of missives about combat by Alexander Hamilton, General Sherman, Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut, and more, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections Defeated Cossacks taunt the pompous sultan of the Ottoman Empire. A black corporal beseeches Abraham...