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  • Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of the REV. Francis Kilvert

    by William Plomer ...
    SINCE its first appearance in three volumes (1938–40) Kilvert’s Diary has become established as a minor classic. Its recognized place among the very best of English diaries has been gained by special qualities. It is the work of a man with a watchful eye and a clear style: Kilvert has the uncommon gift of making one see vividly what he describes. His detailed picture of life in the English ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

    A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition

    by Anne Frank ...
    Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Earthly Signs

    Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922

    by Marina Tsvetaeva ...
    Translated by Jamey Gambrell ...
    A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution.Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life buffeted by political upheaval. The essays collected in this volume are based on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Home Front Diary 1914-1918

    by Lillie Scales ...
    'One of the saddest and yet most thrilling sights to me was to see parties of those young fellows who had just volunteered being marched from the recruiting office - perhaps 30, 50 or 100 of them - in all sorts of dress - top hats, caps, soft hats, morning coats, jackets - shabby men and 'nuts', labourers, clerks, partners in great city businesses, hooligans - all mixed up, marching side by side, ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • Mencken

    A Life

    by Fred Hobson ...
    Ever in control, H. L. Mencken contrived that future generations would see his life as he desired them to. He even wrote Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and other books to fit the pictures he wanted: first, the carefree Baltimore boy; then, the delighted, exuberant critic of American life.But he only told part of the truth. Over the past twenty-five years, vital collections of the writer's papers have ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Killdeer

    And Other Stories From the Farming Life

    by Michael Cotter ...
    “Even after dark, if you are quiet and attentive, you can hear a Killdeer far off. Sandbars, mud flats and grazed fields are where you find them. They are commonplace. So much so, that you might miss them if not for the unique sound they make as they fly overhead, or dart back and forth on the ground, as if wondering which way to go next. So it is with Michael Cotter’s stories. They are like a ... Read more

    $10.29 USD