Edited and Introduced by WEK Anderson. ‘I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal]. I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some curious information by not carrying this resolution into effect.’ Sunday, 20 November 1825 With these words Scott began what many regard as his greatest work, a diary which was to turn into an extraordinary da ...
'A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go' For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient beings, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our being. Cats see into us; they are on to something. An illuminating portrait of one very special writer and a lifelong relationship with the animals he considered his ...
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert thro ...
Журнал «Проблемы развития территории» основан в 1997 году. Издатель – Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт социально-экономического развития территорий Российской академии наук (ИСЭРТ РАН). В журнале публикуются статьи, посвящённые вопросам регулирования территориального развития, инновационного потенциала развития территорий, организации финансового хозяйства и бюджета региона, его муниципальных образований, публикую ...
Журнал «Проблемы развития территории» основан в 1997 году. Издатель – Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт социально-экономического развития территорий Российской академии наук (ИСЭРТ РАН). В журнале публикуются статьи, посвящённые вопросам регулирования территориального развития, инновационного потенциала развития территорий, организации финансового хозяйства и бюджета региона, его муниципальных образований, публикую ...
Morris Graves is a major American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest. Morris Graves: Selected Letters draws on a vast cache of the his unpublished correspondence, dating from his teenage years until his death in 2001. Few visual artists of any era have left such a rich and wide-ranging collections of letters, which makes this body of work an unusual and valuable document in American art.The Graves correspondence is remarkable for its sc ...
J.M. Synge was a tireless traveller who, while celebrating the beauties of the Irish landscape, never flinched from describing the harsh, unromantic reality of rural life. <br><br>Capturing the embers of a dying culture, the great playwright walks, drinks and talks with a rich assortment of country people, offering unforgettable descriptions of the Puck Fair at Killorglin and horse-racing on the strand near Dingle, of remote ...
Anais Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the full details of Nin’s fascinating life and the emotional and literary high-wire acts she committed both in documenting it and in defying the mores of 1950s America. Trapeze begins where the previ ...
