Titres dans Mémoires, journaux et correspondance

The violent racism of the American South drove Wayne Flynt away from his home state of Alabama, but the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's classic novel about courage, community, and equality, inspired him to return in the early 1960s and craft a career documenting and teaching Alabama history. His writing resonated with many Alabamians, in particular three sisters: Louise, Alice, and Nelle Harper Lee. Beginning with their first meeting in 1983, a mutual respect and affection for the state's history and literature matured into a deep friendship.

Ein Porträt der Familie Mann in Briefen. Zärtlich umgarnend, frech zugespitzt und maßlos übertrieben, Tratsch und lebenswichtige Ereignisse mitteilend: Die Vielfalt der Tonlage in den Briefen von Katia und Thomas Mann mit ihren sechs Kindern ist grenzenlos. Tilmann Lahme legt hier zusammen mit Holger Pils und Kerstin Klein eine Sammlung von Briefen vor, die einen ganz unverstellten, intimen und oft überraschenden Einblick in den Familienbetrieb bietet.

Napoléon Ier, empereur des Français, ne peut laisser personne indifférent. Enfant, on est fasciné par l'épopée de ses conquêtes européennes, relayées par de beaux romans d'aventures. Adulte, on s'essaie à évaluer sa profonde transformation de la société française. On croit ainsi avoir tout lu ou tout appris sur lui grâce aux milliers d'ouvrages qui abordent le moindre aspect de sa vie et de destinée incroyable.

George Sand et Victor Hugo étaient exactement contemporains et pourtant ils ne se sont jamais rencontrés. Il faudra même attendre l'année 1856 pour qu'ils entament une relation épistolaire. On connaissait depuis longtemps la magnifique correspondance entre Sand et Flaubert.

The men and women honored in Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation speak in this collection of letters from and about the Depression and World War II.

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.

A born storyteller, Charlie May's vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches to life for a 21st-century audience. A journalist before the war and a born storyteller, May's diaries give a vivid picture of battalion life in and behind the trenches during the build-up to the greatest battle fought by a British army and are filled with the friendships and tensions, the home-sickness, frustrations, the fog of ignorance, the combination of boredom and terror to which every man that has ever fought could testify.

The official companion to ITV's hotly anticipated new drama, The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England's greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV's Victoria follows the early years of the young Queen's reign, based closely on Victoria's own letters and journals.

As fresh and poignant today as when they were written, these touching letters capture the heart of everyday life during the Civil War. Set both at home in Florida and on the front, the letters were written by two generations of families whose members included radical secessionists, moderates, and even a few Unionists.

Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, "The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor." The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about grades, looks, boys, and popularity. After reading the confessions of her past self, writes Julavits, "I want to good-naturedly laugh at this person. I want to but I can't."

A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. The book collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his listeners, with his habitual greeting: "Hey, out there".

Victory and defeat, love and loss are the prevalent realities of Letters from the Greatest Generation, a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas. Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each minute, and their voices ring loud and clear. "It's all part of the game. But it's bloody and rough," wrote one soldier to his wife. "Wearing two stripes now and proud as an old cat with five kittens," marked another.

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting selection of weekly 'pen-pal' letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Pier Approach Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower, living on Long Island, New York. Frances Woodsford and Commodore Paul Bigelow never met, and there was no romance - she was in her forties when he died aged ninety-seven - yet their epistolary friendship was her lifeline.

La Correspondance de Marcel Proust avec sa mère constitue à la fois une véritable biographie de l'écrivain, mais aussi et surtout une porte ouverte sur tous les éléments d'une vie sublimée par l'œuvre à la "Recherche du temps perdu", où on retrouve le narrateur sous un aspect parfois drôle, et souvent provocateur. La sélection de lettres que proposent les Éditions Thélème dresse le portrait vif d'un auteur pour qui "la littérature, c'est la vie".

For three years Andrew Carroll traveled throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during US wars.

> Little Women's "Marmee" is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real woman behind the fiction - Louisa May Alcott's own mother, Abigail - has for more than a century remained shrouded in mystery. Scholars believed that her papers were burned by her daughter and husband, as they claimed, and that little additional information survived. Until now.

Auteurs classiques utilisant leur plume pour vivre, personnages historiques entrés dans la légende, tous sont des hommes et femmes qui se sont un jour laissés éprendre... Derrière leur vie sociale, publique et parfois mondaine se cachent des êtres qui ont correspondu avec amour et passion avec l'élue de leur cœur. Retrouvez ici les mots que s'échangèrent les amants passionnées que furent Alfred de Musset et Georges Sand, Victor Hugo et Juliette Drouet puis Mlle Foucher, Henri IV et Gabrielle d'Estrée, Benjamin Constant et Mme de Staël, Denis Diderot et Mlle Volant.

"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.

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."

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.