Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5203 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731792 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668393 A compilation of personal correspondence written over a sixty-year period offers insight into the iconic American authors literary personality, his experiences as a German POW, his struggles with fame, and the inspirations for his famous books. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576392 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658762 Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, having been carted off to the Soviet Union by the Soviet Secret Police at the end of the war. The letters range from gushing love letters ... to letters from teachers, students, priests, businessmen and others expressing gratitude for alleviating poverty or restoring dignity to the German people. There are a few protest letters and the occasional desperate plea to release a loved one from a concentration camp, but the overwhelming majority are positive and even rapturous, shedding fresh light on the nature of the Hitler cult in Nazi Germany.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678474 William Shawcrosss official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success. One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeths insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness. Now, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood before the First World War to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668880 A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of Help!, Come Together, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667739 Published together for the first time, this collection of letters to family, friends, lovers and complete strangers from the beloved Beatle offers an intimate look into the true personality and mind of one of popular musics most prolific and revered artists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538067 The tumultuous life of the Austrian writer best known for The Radetzky March is described through letters that recall his fathers and wifes mental illnesses, numerous mistresses, and travel to Paris. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482105 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222820 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1300576 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1480805 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1486880 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1260833 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1196568 Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julias deepest thoughts and feelings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272606 This work is a collection of Marilyn Monroes written artifacts, notes to herself, letters, even poems, in her own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These bits of text, jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1127571 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1154829 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1023923 Actor Jerry Orbachs widow, Elaine, shares their 25-year love story, including many of his more meaningful poems written to her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009602 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=987426 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053804 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=954166 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1057902 An exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature. the art of letter writing. Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his own insightful commentary on the circumstances and characters of the worlds most intriguing letter writers. Here are Madame de Svigns devastatingly sharp reports from the court of Louis XIV, F. Scott Fitzgeralds tormented advice to his young daughter, the besotted midlife billets-doux of a suddenly rejuvenated Woodrow Wilson, the casually brilliant spiritual musings of Flannery OConnor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, the cries from prison of Sacco and Vanzetti. Along with the confessions and complaints and revelations sent from battlefields, frontier cabins, and luxury liners, a reader will find Mallon considering travel bulletins, suicide notes, fan letters, and hate mail--forms as varied as the human experiences behind them.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945786 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=754647 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=733203 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548296 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=672630 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630560 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=626380 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=597097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=624915 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=661953 Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famous for books like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang as he was infamous for the prickly persona of Cactus Ed. Abbeys postcards and letters, legendary during his lifetime and collected here for the first time, convey the fullness of the man and reveal, along with his wisdom and savage wit, a tender side seldom seen before. Whether spouting on the virtues of anger, roasting hawkish proponents of Vietnam, or lending encouragement to fellow writers such as Cormac McCarthy, here we find the essential spirit of the man, intimate and revolutionary.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=615904 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=566195 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611103 My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding the relationship that developed between these two great world leaders during a time of supreme world crisis. The correspondence, secret at the time, begins with a letter Roosevelt wrote to Stalin offering aid to the Soviet Union following Hitlers surprise attack in 1941. It ends with a message that was an attempt to minimize the differences between the two leaders, approved by Roosevelt only minutes before his death in 1945. The book traces the evolution of their unique relationship, revealing the statesmanship of the two men and their thinking about the grave events of their time. An informative introduction to the volume and generous annotations set the letters in context.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594876 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=513959 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516035 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=442471 Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood offers a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and screen. Providing an entertaining look at celebrated lives, Osgood lets us glimpse Mark Twain squabbling with the gas company, Dwight D. Eisenhower kvetching to Mamie about Patton, and radio personality Fred Allen desperately seeking logic from his insurance carrier. Sprinkled throughout with Osgoods own humorous quips, this is a delightful compendium of clever letter writing at its side-splitting best. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=663766 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539887 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=486469 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=661946 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=519917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=400205 An elegantly designed book is lavishly filled with passionate, sexy, surprising, funny, and historically significant love letters, selected by one of Americas most prestigious autograph dealers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433873 In 1932, Wolfgang Pauli was a world-renowned physicist and had already done the work that would win him the 1945 Nobel Prize. He was also in pain. His mother had poisoned herself after his fathers involvement in an affair. Emerging from a brief marriage with a cabaret performer, Pauli drank heavily, quarreled frequently and sometimes publicly, and was disturbed by powerful dreams. He turned for help to C. G. Jung, setting a standing appointment for Mondays at noon. Thus bloomed an extraordinary intellectual conjunction not just between a physicist and a psychologist but between physics and psychology. Eighty letters, written over twenty-six years, record that friendship.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=537759 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=404586 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=512013 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313080 The Portable Louisa May Alcott samples the entire spectrum of Alcotts writings: her novels, novellas, childrens stories, sensationalist fiction, gothic tales, memoirs, letters, and journals. Presenting her more daring works, such as Moods and Behind a Mask, alongside the more familiar heroines, and including a selection of personal writing, this singular collection shows the relationship not only between Little Women and Alcotts family life but also between Little Women and the sensation fiction - and how this apparent dichotomy illuminates who Alcott was.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313643 A mix of popular genres from top-selling American authors. Readers will relish themes of love, glamour, politics, perseverance, resilience, innovation and the pioneer spirit from some of the best-loved writers of modern fiction, nonfiction and biography. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=316485 The Last Letters of Thomas More is a new edition of Mores prison correspondence, introduced and fully annotated for contemporary readers by Alvaro de Silva. Based on the critical edition of Mores correspondence, this volume begins with letters penned by More to Cromwell and Henry VIII in the spring of 1534 and ends with Mores last words to Margaret Roper, his daughter, on the eve of his execution, July 6, 1535. More writes on a host of topics - prayer and penance, the right use of riches and power, the joys of heaven, the challenges of maintaining moral virtue, and much more.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292139 Cincinnati native William Haines Lytle volunteered for service in the Mexican War in late 1847. By 1861 the fervent pro-states rights Democrat with strong family ties to Kentucky slaveholders was in personality and temperament more a Southern cavalier than a Yankee. But, like his father and grandfather before him, he believed strongly in the preservation of the Union. Lytles Civil War letters detail the intensity of the battles in the western theater and illuminate the activities of the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland in the early years of the war. Because he liked to participate in society, his writings also offer glimpses of the interaction between Union officers and Southern civilians in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. During the Mexican War, Lytle primarily served garrison duty. Little has been recorded about garrison life during the Mexican War, but it was there Lytle learned to deal with troops and to handle periods of inaction and unpleasant situations. These skills would prove invaluable to him in the Civil War. Lytle became known for his courage under fire and his devotion to his troops. He rose quickly through the ranks, participating in combat at Carnifex Ferry and Perryville. Lytle was killed at Chickamauga while leading a valiant charge to stop Confederate troops storming through an opening in Union lines.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500375 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=445096 A unique and beautiful gift edition of a collection of love letters written by one of the most popular poets of all time, Kahlil Gibran. These letters form a collection of unparalleled significance for Gibran scholars and admirers. They shed an entirely new light on Gibrans innermost feelings, never so frankly expressed as here. Illustrated in two-colors throughout with original pen and ink sketches by Gibran and facsimiles of correspondence, this is a fascinating insight into an elusive yet extremely popular figure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285561 In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last hundred years. Here is Mark Twains hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einsteins letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudds generation gap letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and a letter from young Bill Gates imploring hobbyists not to share software so that innovators can make some money. In these pages our centurys most celebrated figures become everyday people and everyday people become part of history. Here is a veterans wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heartbreaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, and an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on-line server.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290517 For the first time, the acerbic 60 Minutes commentator has collected the funniest, wisest, and most interesting of his letters, spanning several decades and addressing issues both momentous and trivial. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=272195 A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671089 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=456081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=399033 The mystery of Ted L. Nancy grows more and more each day. In this second collection of Nancy letters, Ted continues where he left off, with more ridiculous correspondence. From the bizarre to the outright loony, here are requests, compliments, and inquiries to corporations, government offices, correctional facilities, celebrities, and other assorted folks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=334893 This one-volume selection is at last available in paperback. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of American literature, womens experience in the nineteenth century, and literature in general. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=265450 Who is Ted L. Nancy? He is a supremely off-kilter alter ego who sends patently ridiculous letters and queries to (and receives surprisingly earnest responses back from) corporate honchos, entertainment conglomerates, national publications, politicians, celebrities and heads of state - to everyone, in fact, from the president of the Bon Ami Cleanser Company to U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Letters from a Nut is an insanely inspired, truly madcap collection of Nancy correspondence, a laugh-out-loud-in-public-places aggregation of official - and officially certifiable - requests, complaints, fan mail and questions that would not possibly have been taken seriously...but, amazingly, were. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=570785 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=323779 Accused of conspiring against the emperor Nero, Seneca was commanded to commit suicide, which he did in characteristic Stoic manner. Included in this volume are his dialogues ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE and ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND; also extracts from NATURAL QUESTIONS and the CONSOLATION TO HELVIA. Senecas prose works were admired by the major literary figures of Elizabethan England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=123563 Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever youre in the mood for love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=261001 In the bestselling tradition of The Lazlo Letters comes a howlingly funny exchange of correspondence between a consumer kamikaze extraordinaire and some of Americas biggest companies. National television. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=144567 This one-of-a-kind volume reveals fascinating details about Kahlos romances, friendships, and business affairs in a selection of letters to friends, collectors, doctors, family, politicians, lovers, and, of course, Diego Rivera. Filled with seething fury, ardent desire, and outrageous humor they will delight the many fans of her art, and provide a glimpse into her exuberant and troubled existence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=254450 Drawing upon 30,000 wartime letters, the editors provide an immediate sense of the lives of women in every branch of the armed services during World War II. The first comprehensive account of its kind, this book fills in important pages of history with the words of the women themselves. 25 black-and-white photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=142806 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=262318 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=115610 This collection of extracts forms a vivid and poignant history of the experience of modern warfare. Divided into two parts, on the First and Second World Wars, the letters have been drawn together to provide a continuous narrative of events from the fresh perspective of those who were intimately caught up in them. In addition, these letters, a large number of which come from ordinary soldiers and civilians, chronicle a nations response to war. Common emotions and attitudes are revealed, both towards the personal experience of war and the wider question of the morality of war in general. Its a bloody thing, half the youth of Europe blown through pain to nothingness, wrote Rupert Brooke in 1914; The world has gone truly mad, wrote a private to his mother expressing the same incomprehension nearly thirty years later. Recurring themes include the spirit of camaraderie and selflessness, whether in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War or in the London suburbs during the Blitz of 1940-1: comradeship, as one private wrote from his squalid trench, was the only clean thing borne of this life of cruelty and filth. It grows in purity from the very obscenity of its surroundings. Humour and a determination to carry on life as normal is also prevalent: a civilian caught in his bath during an air raid in Liverpool relates, I arose, put on my tin hat, and returned to my bath, a sweet sight, but one must wash. Letters From Two World Wars has been compiled from private as well as published sources, providing a new and illuminating first-hand account of conflict in the twentieth century.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33612 Since 1962 Editors on Editing has been an indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. Written by Americas most distinguished editors, these thirty-eight essays, over thirty written for this edition, will teach, inform, explain, and inspire anyone interested in the world of editing. Top professionals write with insight and candor about the special demands of and skills necessary for their particular areas of expertise, from mass market books to books for special markets, romance novels to reference books, religious books to childrens books, science-fiction books to self-help books, and virtually every type of print publishing in between. Covering both the practical and the theoretical aspects of publishing, Editors on Editing includes essays on the evolution of the American editor; the ethical and moral dimensions of editing; how books are chosen; what an editor looks for in a query letter, proposal, and manuscript; line editing; copy editing; the free-lance editor; the question of political correctness; making the most of writers conferences; plus numerous other pieces that provide a fascinating, provocative, and sometimes controversial look into the complete editorial process. An annotated bibliography helps make this completely revised edition essential for anyone interested in the art and craft of this all too often misunderstood profession.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234815 Still writing and growing in her early eighties, May Sarton long ago established a unique niche for herself in twentieth-century American literature: in numerous volumes of poetry, fiction, and personal journals she has created a body of work that is both artistically beautiful and comforting, while always testifying to the importance of courage and love in the survival of the perceptive individual. May Sarton: Among the Usual Days is a treasure trove of her unpublished writing, carefully selected by longtime friend Susan Sherman from almost seventy years of correspondence and journals stored in the New York Public Librarys Berg Collection, in May Sartons own files, and in other archives. Thematically arranged, these passages reflect the seasons of her flowering as writer, teacher, daughter, lover, friend, and fiercely independent thinker. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished photos of Sarton and her closest companions from her infancy to the present, in May Sarton: Among the Usual Days all of the great abiding themes of her craft recur and expand: her respect for poetic form, hunger for love, appreciation for the centrality of solitude, commitment to enduring friendship, unabashed relish for the natural world in all its aspects, and zeal in pursuit of honesty above all, no matter what the cost. Her canny eye and ear bring alive her encounters with such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, Eva Le Gallienne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bowen, Andre Malraux, Rebecca West, and Julian and Juliette Huxley. May Sarton: Among the Usual Days is finally a celebration, a cornucopia of earned wisdom and ardent candor that reveals over and again, in Shermans words, the distinguished writer May Sartons own sacramentalization of the ordinary.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=243785 Of the many easterners who went west at the close of the nineteenth century, Tasker L. Oddie was one of the most purposeful. The twenty-seven-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada, in 1898 as secretary of the Nevada Company, which had mining interests in central Nevada. There he uncovered for his employers, the Stokes family, a fraud committed by the firms general manager. In the aftermath of the scandal, Oddie struck out on his own in search of valuable mining prospects. He started small, worked hard, and eventually became wealthy through his involvement with silver claims in the fabulous strike at Tonopah, so much so that he could do what he liked second-best to mining: raise blooded cattle. He climbed the political ladder from Nye County district attorney to governor of Nevada to U.S. senator. Oddie tells his own story in his letters to family members back home, particularly his mother, who, when his father died, was left in straitened circumstances. Oddie, who was well educated and loved music, continually assured his mother that success in mining took time and patience but would pay off handsomely in the end and that all would be well with her and his sisters. He was right. He retired all his debts and brought his mother and sisters to Nevada to live with him. Perhaps the most enjoyable facet of the letters, however, is Oddies evolution from the traditional executive at his desk to an outdoorsman who thoroughly enjoyed hardship, deprivation, hard physical labor, and the occasional high adventure afforded by Americas rapidly vanishing frontier. The story of maturation in a sometimes harsh environment and against heavy odds comes through in his letters. History knows Tasker L. Oddie the public servant well. This book presents Oddie the man.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=164181 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=475124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=215786 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=246049 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=83968 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28761 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=262551 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=24381 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=133262 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=226475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=304142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=225831 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=89988 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=118694 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459638 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=216655