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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947 (The Diaries of Anaïs Nin #4)
by Anaïs NinThe fourth volume of &“one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&” (Los Angeles Times). The renowned diarist continues her record of her personal, professional, and artistic life, recounting her experiences in Greenwich Village for several years in the late 1940s, where she defends young writers against the Establishment—and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. &“[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century.&” —The New York Times Book Review Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955: 1947–1955 (The Diaries of Anaïs Nin #5)
by Anaïs NinThe fifth volume of &“one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&” (Los Angeles Times). Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author&’s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with LSD. &“Through her own struggling and dazzling courage [Nin has] shown women . . . groping with and growing with the world.&” —Minneapolis Tribune Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966 (The Diaries of Anaïs Nin #6)
by Anaïs NinThe sixth volume of the diary of &“one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century&” (The New York Times Book Review). Anaïs Nin continues &“one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&” with this volume covering more than a decade of her midcentury life (Los Angeles Times). She debates the use of drugs versus the artist&’s imagination; portrays many famous people in the arts; and recounts her visits to Sweden, the Brussels World&’s Fair, Paris, and Venice. &“[Nin] looks at life, love, and art with a blend of gentility and acuity that is rare in contemporary writing.&” —John Barkham Reviews Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966–1974: 1966–1974 (The Diaries of Anaïs Nin #7)
by Anaïs NinThe seventh and final volume of the author&’s &“remarkable&” diary is filled with the reflections of an older woman as she journeys through the world (Los Angeles Times). &“One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&” ends as the author wished: not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous moment on a trip to Bali (Los Angeles Times). As she ages, Anaïs Nin reflects on how the deeply personal and introspective nature of her writings intertwines with her public life and her connections with other people, including her devoted readers. &“One of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century.&” —The New York Times Book Review Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1 (1931-1934) (The Diaries of Anaïs Nin #1)
by Anaïs Ninnais Nin's novels' and stories, acclaimed at first only by the literary community, have gained a steadily growing audience over the years. Today, her works, which baffled readers by their unique subtlety and dreamlike precision, are translated into eight languages and are acclaimed throughout the world. But her true life work, rumor had it, was contained in the enormous diary Miss Nin has kept since her childhood. And those who had seen glimpses of the diary reported that it would be one of the outstanding literary and biographical documents of our time. Its publication has been long awaited. Here now is the first volume of this diary. It is as clear, as direct, as beautifully honest and simple as writing may be. It covers Miss Nin's life in Paris during the early 1930's. It provides full-length portraits of the then unknown Henry Miller, of the extraordinary surrealist poet and man of the theater Antonin Artaud, of the famous psychiatrist Dr. Otto Rank, and of many others. And it offers a fascinating record of Miss Nin's struggles to discover her own self, to come to grips with her past and her future. The intensity, the clarity, the sensitive vision that inform these pages make them extraordinary, accessible and stimulating.
The Diary of Anne Clifford 1616-1619: A Critical Edition (Routledge Revivals)
by Katherine O. AchesonOriginally published in 1995, this book contains a full version of The Diary of Anne Clifford, alongisde an introduction and textual notes. Anne Clifford left one of the most extensive autobiographical records of the seventeenth century and, it was first published, this edition was the first critical edition of any of her works.
Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944–1945: 1944-1945
by Hanna Lévy-HassA resistance fighter&’s &“remarkable&” memoir of her imprisonment at the infamous Nazi concentration camp (The New Yorker). Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment during World War II, and she stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps—doing so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen. In this volume, her insightful diary is accompanied by an introduction from her daughter, Amira Hass, an Israeli journalist renowned for her reporting from the West Bank and Gaza. &“A poignant testimonial . . . Hanna Lévy-Hass was clearly a quite extraordinary woman.&”—Tony Judt, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks From the Lodz Ghetto
by Dawid Sierakowiak"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us. " This is Dawid Sierakowiak's final diary entry. Soon after writing it, the young author died of tuberculosis, exhaustion, and starvation--the Holocaust syndrome known as "ghetto disease. " After the liberation of the Lodz Ghetto, his notebooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe. The diary comprises a remarkable legacy left to humanity by its teenage author. It is one of the most fastidiously detailed accounts ever rendered of modern life in human bondage.
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker
by Elaine Forman CraneThe journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marriage to the night before her last illness. The extraordinary span and sustained quality of the journal make it a rewarding document for a multitude of historical purposes. One of the most prolific early American diarists--her journal runs to thirty-six manuscript volumes--Elizabeth Drinker saw English colonies evolve into the American nation while Drinker herself changed from a young unmarried woman into a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her journal entries touch on every contemporary subject political, personal, and familial.Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder. There is little that escaped Elizabeth Drinker's quill, and her diary is a delight not only for the information it contains but also for the way in which she conveys her world across the centuries.
The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949
by Georgi Dimitrov Ivo BanacDimitrov (1882-1949) was a Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the Communist movement and a member of Stalin's inner circle. During the years between 1933 and his death in 1949, Dimitrov kept a diary. This important document, edited and introduced by renowned historian Ivo Banac, is now available for the first time in English.
The Diary of H. L. Mencken
by Charles A. FecherA Historical Treasure: the never-before, published diary of the most outspoken, iconoclastic, ferociously articulate of American social critics -- the sui generis newspaperman, columnist for the Baltimore Sun, editor of The American Mercury, and author of The American Language, who was admired, feared, and famous for his merciless puncturing of smugness, his genius for deflating pomposity and pretense, his polemical brilliance. Walter Lippmann called him, in 1926, "the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated Americans." H. L. Mencken's diary was, at his own request, kept sealed in the vaults of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library for a quarter of a century after his death. The diary covers the years 1930 -- 1948, and provides a vivid, unvarnished, sometimes shocking picture of Mencken himself, his world, and his friends and antagonists, from Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and William Faulkner to Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom Mencken nourished a hatred that resulted in spectacular and celebrated feats of invective. From the more than 2,000 pages of typescript that have now come to light, the Mencken scholar Charles A. Fecher has made a generous selection of entries carefully chosen to preserve the whole range, color, and impact of the diary. Here, full scale, is Mencken the unique observer and disturber of American society. And here too is Mencken the human being of wildly contradictory impulses: the skeptic who was prey to small superstitions, the dare-all warrior who was a hopeless hypochondriac, the loving husband and generous friend who was, alas, a bigot. Mencken emerges from these pages unretouched -- in all the often outrageous gadfly vitality that made him, at his brilliant best, so important to the intellectual fabric of American life.
The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Shikibu MurasakiDerived from the journals of an empress's tutor and companion, this unique book offers rare glimpses of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Lady Murasaki recounts episodes of drama and intrigue among courtiers as well as the elaborate rituals related to the birth of a prince. Her observations, expressed with great subtlety, offer penetrating and timeless insights into human nature. Murasaki Shikibu (circa AD 973–1025) served among the gifted poets and writers of the imperial court during the Heian period. She and other women of the era were instrumental in developing Japanese as a written language, and her masterpiece, The Tale of Genji, is regarded as the world's first novel. Lady Murasaki's diary reveals the role of books in her society, including the laborious copying of texts and their high status as treasured gifts. This translation is accompanied by a Foreword from American poet and Japanophile Amy Lowell.
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
by Murasaki ShikibuThe Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting and drunken courtiers, and telling remarks about the timid Empress and her powerful father, Michinaga. The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology - her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.
Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior High
by Latoya HunterLively, poignant, and utterly winning, The Diary of Latoya Hunter is a timely portrait of adolescence--about the universal challenges of youth and about the ways it is shaped by the inner city. It is also a lively introduction to a delightful girl whose humor and idealism are inspirational.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II (Transatlantic Perspectives #7)
by Charlotte A. LergIn 1945 Melvin J. Lasky, serving in one of the first American divisions that entered Germany after the country’s surrender, began documenting the everyday life of a defeated nation. Travelling widely across both Germany and post-war Europe, Lasky’s diary provides a captivating eye-witness account colored by ongoing socio-political debates and his personal background studying Trotskyism. The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces the diary’s vivid language as Lasky describes the ideological tensions between the East and West, as well as including critical essays on subjects ranging from Lasky’s life as a transatlantic intellectual, the role of war historians, and the diary as a literary genre.
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II (Transatlantic Perspectives #7)
by Charlotte A. Lerg"'The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky' offers not only a panoramic view of a country poised between devastation and an uncertain future but a gripping self-portrait of a man poised between unresolved youthful bewilderment and a mature clarity of conviction." • Wall Street Journal In 1945 Melvin J. Lasky, serving in one of the first American divisions that entered Germany after the country’s surrender, began documenting the everyday life of a defeated nation. Travelling widely across both Germany and post-war Europe, Lasky’s diary provides a captivating eye-witness account colored by ongoing socio-political debates and his personal background studying Trotskyism. The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces the diary’s vivid language as Lasky describes the ideological tensions between the East and West, as well as including critical essays on subjects ranging from Lasky’s life as a transatlantic intellectual, the role of war historians, and the diary as a literary genre.
The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942
by Petr Ginz&“Recalling the diaries of . . . Anne Frank, Ginz&’s diaries reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis.&” —International Herald Tribune Not since Anne Frank&’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully kept a diary that captured the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. His stunningly mature paintings, drawings, and writings reflect his insatiable appetite for learning and experience and openly display his growing artistic and literary genius. Petr was killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. His diaries—recently discovered in a Prague attic under extraordinary circumstances—are an invaluable historical document and a testament to one remarkable child&’s insuppressible hunger for life. &“Given his unprecedented situation, his words were unprecedented. He was creating new language. He was creating life . . . The diary in your hands did not save Petr. But it did save us.&” —Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Everything Is Illuminated
The Diary of Prisoner 17326: A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp (World War Ii: The Global, Human, And Ethical Dimension Ser. #20 B/w Illustrations)
by John K. StutterheimA moving memoir of childhood in Dutch colonial Java, coming of age in wartime, and the trauma of life in WWII Labor Camps run by the Japanese. As a boy growing up the Dutch island colony of Java, John K. Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. It was a fairly typical life for a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies, but their colonial idyll ended when the Japanese invaded in 1942, when John was fourteen. With the surrender of Java, John&’s father was taken prisoner. Soon thereafter, John, his younger brother, and his mother were imprisoned. A year later he and his brother were moved to a forced labor camp for boys, where disease, starvation, and the constant threat of imminent death took their toll. Throughout all of these travails, John kept a secret diary hidden in his mattress. His memories now offer a unique perspective on an often-overlooked episode of World War II. What emerges is a compelling story of a young man caught up in the machinations of a global war—struggling to survive while caring for his gravely ill brother.
The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
by Maria Faustina KowalskaThe actual diary of Saint Faustina, who died in Poland right before the start of World War II at the age of 33 and was canonized in 2000. Saint Faustina's writings sparked the Divine Mercy movement, one of the fastest growing movements in the Catholic Church. The Diary chronicles Saint Fausina's great experience of Divine Mercy in her soul and her mission to share that mercy with the world. This amazing narrative will stir readers' hearts and souls as it shares the experience of a simple Polish nun in the years leading up to World War II.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson Richard Le Gallienne Samuel PepysThe diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. Originally written in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's diary provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues and naval, church, and cultural affairs, as well as a quotidian journal of daily life in London during the Restoration.In 1825, when Pepys's memoirs were first published, Francis Jeffrey of The Edinburgh Review declared, "We can scarcely say that we wish it a page shorter... it is very entertaining thus to be transported into the very heart of a time so long gone by; and to be admitted into the domestic intimacy, as well as the public councils of a man of great activity and circulation in the reign of Charles II." Edited and abridged by literary critic and author Richard Le Gallienne, this edition features an Introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson.
