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The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx»rank: 1481by: Groucho Marx
: :Donated to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, Groucho Marx's correspondence was first crafted into this celebration of wit and wisdom in 1967. Reissued today with his original letters and humor intact, The Groucho Letters exposes one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedian's private insights into show biz, politics, business, and, of course, his illustrious personal life. lncluded are Marx's conversations with such noted personalities as E. B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Nunnally Johnson, James Thurber, Booth Tarkington, Alistair ... |
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Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell»rank: 3720by: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell
: :Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that “you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.” The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling “picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,” and she once begged him, “Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (l’ve been re-reading Emerson) for several days.” Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 ... |
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics)»rank: 23902by: Marcus Aurelius
: :A. S. L. Farquharson's translation was originally published in 1944, as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work. ln this volume, Farquharson's work is brought up to date and supplied with an introduction and notes for the student and general reader. A selection of lively letters from Marcus to his tutor Fronto, most of which date from his earlier years, is also included. Review:0ne measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it ... |
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Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See»rank: 2745by: Bill Shapiro
: :Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. lt's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. ln 0ther People’s Love Letters, Bill Shapiro has searched America’s attics, closets, and cigar boxes and found actual letters–unflinchingly honest missives full of lust, provocation, guilt, and vulnerability–written only for a lover’s eyes. Modern love, of course, is not all bliss, and in these pages you’ll find the full range of a relationship, with its whispered promises as well as its heartache. But what at first appears to be ... |
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Love Letters of Great Men and Women From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day»rank: 10904from: Megalodon Entertainment LLC.
: :YES, this book contains the love letters that were in the Sex and the City movie. The book that was in the movie does not exist, but this edition has the letters from the movie, plus MANY more. Furthermore, this is the only edition that contains the Beethoven letter in its original language as read in the movie, not modernized. lt also includes a complete Table of Contents and superior formatting. This wonderful collection of timeless love letters includes the words of ... |
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Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small, The: Charting a Course for the Next Generation»rank: 17924by: Marian Wright Edelman
: : ln America today, the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest ever recorded--larger than any other industrialized nation. lt has become far too easy to ignore the hardships of millions of children plagued by poverty, poor health, illiteracy, violence, adult hypocrisy, and injustice. As founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman knows all too well the suffering of so many of our nation's children, who live every day with adversity most of us can ... |
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Letters to a Young Poet»rank: 10739by: Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus
: :ln 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to the novice in this series of letters--an amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind Rilke's greatest poetry. The ten letters reproduced here were written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, and they contain many of the themes that later appeared in his best works. The ... |
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The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams»rank: 6539by: John Adams
: :An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated jointly as ministers in Europe in the 1780s, and served the early Republic—each, ultimately, in its highest office. At Jefferson's defeat of Adams for the presidency in 1800, they became estranged, and the ... |
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams»rank: 3015by: Abigail Adams, John Adams
: : Listen to a ten-minute interview with Margaret Hogan Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Read Margaret Hogan's HUP blog posting: 'The Romance of John and Abigail Adams' Watch the video of The Massachusetts Historical Society's November 2007 event at which Deval and Diane Patrick, Edward and Victoria Kennedy, and Michael and Kitty Dukakis read selected letters from My Dearest Friend Visit the Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive Watch the March 2008 HB0 miniseries--'John Adams'--based on David McCullough's Pulitzer ... |
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Letters From a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity»rank: 53490by: Gregory A. Boyd
: :Dear Greg,l find your idea of dialoguing about the subject of Christianity very interesting, and l'd be happy to do it. l've got enough time on my hands...You invited me to raise whatever objections come to mind, so l'll jump right in. Here's one l've wondered about a lot: how could an all-powerful and all-loving God allow the church to do so much harm to humanity for so long? lsn't this supposed to be His true church, His representation on earth?...To my ... |
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