If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they love I shall be always with you in the brightest day and the darkest night amidst your happiest sceans and gloomiest hours always always and when the soft breeze fans your cheek it shall be my breath or the cool air your throbbing temple it shall be my spirit passing by. One of the letters, imprinted into a clay tablet, dates all the way back to the 14th century BC; the most recent is just a few years old. A desire for justice blazes from many of the finest letters, eloquently expressing the most incandescent emotions, from rage to love.

gone to meet the spirits of my poor, outraged and murdered people, in a world where Liberty and Justice are MASTERS. What an array of choices from a letter engraved on bark dating to 1350 to the hilarious retort to the Dept. I understand why they were married a second time as I’d have forgiven him for anything after his letter); to philosophical (Hunter S Thompson’s astute life advice given to a friend), and so much more and everything in between.A fascinating new volume of messages about fatherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. Letters from around the world, different times, the famous and not so famous, all have one thing in common, they are fascinating! while I don’t agree or care for what you are saying, I do support your right to say it, for herein lies true freedom’.

Usher provides the text separately so reading the content isn't an issue - I'd just love to see more of the letters themselves so I can treasure them even more. It is full of really interesting letters and is also nicely edited with copies of the letters and images. This book is a collection of over One Hundred of the World's Most Entertaining, Inspiring and unusual letters.

Foi o cabo dos trabalhos para conseguir o ebook, e não é, de certeza a melhor opção para este género de trabalho. Zelda Fitzgerald, Iggy Pop, Fidel Castro, Leonardo da Vinci, Bill Hicks, Anaïs Nin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Amelia Earhart, Charles Darwin, Roald Dahl, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Dorothy Parker, John F. I am a member of what feels like a very limited group of people who still favor “snail mail” and the written word.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend,” wrote Emily Dickinson. Melissa Rivers lovingly chides her mother, Joan, for treating her house like a hotel and taking her thirteen-year-old son to see Last Tango in Paris. I adore this because there’s such pleasure in knowing one of the greatest authors of all time wrote just as deeply and from the heart in his own correspondence with family as he did in the books that made him a legend. Letters of Note” is in no way a jumbled mess and instead creates a spark of excitement, encouraging page-turning.Limited edition Letters of Note print designed by Stanley Chow, featuring a quote from an Ernest Hemingway letter to F. com – so I was thrilled when he pitched the idea for a Letters of Note book to the crowd-sourced publisher, unbound. This took me quite a while to read because I read a letter here and a letter there, and then forgot that I had it in my Kindle app for a period! There were other worthwhile letters, like the one from the guy who foresaw the Challenger disaster, and the pissed-off guy who wrote to an environmental agency about a dam.

Ono što bi se možda moglo zameriti ovoj knjizi pre svega je etičke prirode i tiče se pitanja - da li je u redu objaviti pisma koja su intimne prirode i koja nisu pisana da ih svi čitaju? Eighty percent of the letters were found by Usher by browsing through internet archives or visiting museums and archives, the remaining twenty percent are submitted by the public. Letters of Note – Briefe, die die Welt bedeuten“ herausgegeben von Shaun Usher ist eine wie ich finde ganz ganz besondere Sammlung der verschiedensten Briefe!Galileo’s 1610 letter to Doge of Venice describing Jupiter’s four largest moons is written on parchment. However, despite their many flavours, I am hopeful that all will captivate you as they have me and whisk you to a point in time far more effectively than the average history book – indeed, I can think of no better way to learn about the past than through the often candid correspondence of those who lived it. I rarely listen to audio books, as my mind wanders and I lose thread of what is said, but the audio book version of this book was excellent as the letters were narrated by some of my favorite actors and actresses such as Olivia Colman, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gillian Anderson and others.