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Über einen Zeitraum von mehr als 35 Jahren, beginnend mit der ersten Veröffentlichung des jungen Autors im Suhrkamp Verlag im Jahr 1965, besprachen Peter Handke und sein Verleger Siegfried Unseld das ihnen Wichtigste schriftlich: die Literatur und die Bücher. Ihr Briefwechsel eröffnet völlig neue Einsichten in die Bedingungen des Schreibens und der Verbreitung von Büchern, zeigt beider unablässiges Arbeiten an neuen Ausdrucksformen sowie die entsprechenden materiellen, geographischen, politischen und persönlichen Begleitumstände.

Steve Patterson's The Book of Letters I Didn't Know Where to Send is a collection of - wait for it - letters, written by award-winning stand-up comedian - you guessed it - Steve Patterson. The host of CBC Radio's The Debaters since 2007, Steve Patterson has become a household name, with more than 700,000 listeners tuning in each week. Patterson's letters may not change the world, but frankly, it's too early to tell. In these letters, he pleads, begs, cajoles, grovels, and always makes a compelling argument.

Welcome to our second installment of letters never meant to be heard! If you haven’t listened to Volume 1, don’t worry. They don’t follow a sequence. There are a wide variety of subjects throughout the book. Some letters will make you laugh, some will bring you to tears, and others are bound to get your political blood boiling. There are even a few letters to President Trump. Immerse yourself in these amazing letters and allow your full range of emotions to be experienced. Rediscover the power of the written word in letter form.

The Heart Works is a collection of personal journal entries, spiritual revelations, essays, and travel tales written over the course of several years. They are the product of the author's quest to get alone with herself and God and rediscover her own happiness. The material explores love and loss, forgiveness of self and others, the pursuit of dreams, and much more. The audiobook is divided into four sections: journal entries, hummingbird moments, revelations and musings, and stories and letters.

Von Ehre ohne Ruhm, von Grösse ohne Glanz, von Würde ohne Sold. Die 1936 in einem Schweizer Verlag erschienene Briefsammlung "Deutsche Menschen" ist Walter Benjamins letzte Veröffentlichung zu Lebzeiten. Siebenundzwanzig Briefe von Kant bis Goethe, von Droste-Hülshoff bis Büchner aus den Jahren zwischen 1767 und 1883 hat er zusammengestellt und kommentiert, um seinen Landsleuten das bessere Beispiel eines aufgeklärten und humanistischen Bürgertums vorzuhalten.

"Moskau!", übertitelt die junge Christa Wolf ihren Tagebucheintrag vom 3. Juni 1957 - der gespannte Ausruf einer Reisenden, die endlich angekommen ist. Zwischen 1957 und 1989 reist die Schriftstellerin zehn Mal in die Sowjetunion. Dabei zeugen ihre persönlichen Aufzeichnungen über diese Exkursionen von ihrem scharfen Blick auf die sozialen und politischen Entwicklungen im Land.

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native enlisted when he turned 18, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Home Front to Battlefront is the tale of a foot soldier who finds himself thrust into a world where he and his unit grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home - all in the same day.

Poetry that challenges the imagination, talks through conflict, and dreams of hope.

These carefully-picked inspirational quotes will give you the fuel you need to transform your life.

In the tradition of memoirs such as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Ivan Doig's This House of Sky, these essays bring a storyteller's gifts to life's dramas, large and small. Following his award-winning turn on his hometown of Dodge City, Rebein takes us back to the high plains world where his family has farmed and ranched since the 1920s. It is a world populated by feedlot cowboys, stock-car drivers, and farm kids dreaming of basketball glory.

Sometimes angry, occasionally sad, and often with humorous quotes, the authors of Letters Never Meant to Be Read share their views on life, with the power of the written word. In the today's world of three-second text messaging, emojis, and Facebook, most people don't know how to write a letter that connects with others. Imagine the effect that you could have on the object of your unrequited love, if you could express yourself through letter writing!

Fin 1902, un jeune homme de 20 ans envoie ses essais poétiques à Rainer Maria Rilke et lui demande de les juger. Une correspondance s'établit entre les deux hommes. Dix lettres constituent ce recueil, publié en 1929, après la mort de Rilke. "Vous me demandez si vos vers sont bons... Votre regard est tourné vers le dehors ; c'est cela qu'il ne faut plus faire. Personne ne peut vous apporter conseil ou aide, personne. Il n'est qu'un seul chemin."

"Chère Maître", c'est en ces termes que Gustave Flaubert s'adresse à George Sand. Au fil de la correspondance qu'ils échangèrent, de 1866 à 1876, se révèlent deux conceptions du monde, deux esthétiques, deux tempéraments. La générosité et l'attention aux autres de George Sand et l'esprit torturé et solitaire de Gustave Flaubert. L'amitié forte et durable qui les unira ne sera interrompue que par la mort de George Sand. Cette correspondance, belle d'intelligence, pose sur la société du XIXe siècle, un regard d'une grande pertinence.

Die Erzählung "Arme Leute" schildert die intensive Brieffreundschaft zwischen einem älteren Mann und einer deutlich jüngeren Frau. Man schätzt sich so sehr, dass persönliche Probleme besprochen werden und man sich gegenseitig bei der Lösung der selbigen beisteht. Die Unterstützung füreinander grenzt an Selbstaufopferung. Man ist sich im Laufe der Zeit immer nähergekommen und hofft jeweils auf das Lebensglück des anderen. Aus heiterem Himmel wird der Frau ein Heiratsantrag von einer unbekannten Person unterbreitet.

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman came right through her yard on their march to the sea in 1864, just as they had other plantations. But the widow mistress of Georgia's Burge Plantation was no typical southern belle. She was a Maine-born transplant with 100 slaves. Here, in Dolly Sumner Lunt's own words, is a description of those days as she watched everything she had and believed in being threatened by an army she described as invaders.

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder "what Royko would have said" about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly ever wrote or talked about, though, was his private life, especially the time he shared with his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life, and her premature death at the age of 44 shook him to his soul.

"Lettres à un jeune poète" regroupe les correspondances qu'échangèrent Rainer Maria Rilke et son élève Kappu entre 1903 et 1908. Rilke a alors 27 ans, mais sa démarche est tellement détachée des velléités d'un "jeune poète", qu'on le croirait déjà revenu d'une longue habitude. Aux envies d'honneur, il répond par la nécessité de créer. Il préconise la solitude et l'introspection et pose au jeune Kappu cette question essentielle : "devriez-vous mourir s'il vous était interdit d'écrire ?"

"L'intranquillité" de Fernando Pessoa met en scène les différents hétéronymes que l'auteur avait inventés pour se permettre des styles d'écriture divers, voire opposés. Ces personnages prennent une certaine consistance dans ce journal intime qui mêle réalité vécue et réalité littéraire. Écrit à partir de 1913 et jusqu'à la mort de Pessoa en 1935, ce texte est à la fois préoccupé, libre et poétique.

Never before have the infamous love letters between John and Blanche Bickerson seen the light of day. This amazing testament to the strength of marriage at last shows the true depth of feeling the squabbling couple felt for one another. And no, it wasn't always bickering! Now you can find out who they are, how they met, and what their backgrounds are. And you can experience, for a change, the love shared between a couple that was obviously made for one another.

Mary and Me: A Lasting Link through Ink explores a 30-year friendship between two women: one who had never learned to cultivate female friendships, and the other who had managed to gather and maintain a large group of friends throughout her adult life. The fact that thousands of handwritten letters between them linked these two together is just part of the intriguing story.