Títulos em Epistolar

The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs finds Judy Abbott's best friend, Sallie McBride, taking total control over the John Grier Home, the orphanage where Judy grew up. Chronicling her hilarious yet heartfelt day-to-day interactions with the permanent residents of the John Grier Home, Sallie spills her heart out in letter after letter to multiple recipients, including the doctor of the JGH - one Robin MacRae, whom she has deemed her enemy and refers to him as such in her letters.

Sam is, to say the least, bookish. An English major of the highest order, her diet has always been Austen, Dickens, and Shakespeare. The problem is that both her prose and conversation tend to be more Elizabeth Bennet than Samantha Moore. But life for the 23-year-old orphan is about to get stranger than fiction. An anonymous, Dickensian benefactor calling himself Mr. Knightley offers to put Sam through Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism. There is only one catch: Sam must write frequent letters to the mysterious donor, detailing her progress.

This is a fictional series of letters starting in 1861 between brothers from South Mississippi. The oldest brother, Author, is fighting for the South, while James, the youngest, has run away from home and joined the Union army. The letters between the two brothers, and the girl they are both sweet on, Beth, as well as to their Ma and Pa, are full of horrors of war, the unbelievable cruelties put upon the slaves, and some redeeming qualities of humans mixed in.

Candela lo ha perdido todo. Su perfecta vida ha saltado por los aires. Está muerta de miedo. Y de dolor. Está perdida. Candela necesita un cambio de aires y se marcha a un pequeño pueblo del sur de Portugal, desde donde le irá contando a su hermana cómo el mar casi llega hasta el porche de la casa que ha alquilado, cómo el sol se cuela entre las ramas de los naranjos y... cómo su casero está empeñado en convertirse en su amigo, aunque ella no esté dispuesta a permitir que alguien entre en el refugio que ha construido.

Caro lettore (o cara lettrice, ancora meglio), per favore, ho bisogno della tua attenzione. Fidati, ti divertirai. Comincio con una domanda: che cosa accadrebbe se un giorno tu entrassi in una libreria e comprassi un libro scritto apposta per esaudire una richiesta? Te lo chiedo perché è esattamente quello che fa il protagonista della storia che hai fra le mani. La storia di Giovanni e di un libro scritto perché tu, lettore (o lettrice, sempre meglio), possa portarlo a passeggio e farti notare dalla persona a cui è indirizzato. Una donna.

When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter—as well as a gift of saffron—to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she’s never tasted fresh garlic--exotic fare in the Northwest of the sixties.

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop.

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s - a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. What have you done today to deserve your eyes?

Una mujer y su marido que es médico, John, han alquilado una casa antigua para pasar el verano. Deciden en vez de usar la habitación normal de matrimonio instalase en el cuarto de los niños en la planta alta. El marido considera que eso será una forma de tratamiento médico para que su mujer pueda recuperarse de lo que él ha diagnosticado como "una depresión nerviosa temporal con una ligera tendencia histérica", diagnóstico habitual para las mujeres de esa época.

Verónica es una niña española que trata de sobrevivir en un mundo hostil, donde la pobreza, la incultura y la tristeza se adueña de todo. Ella desea ser maestra, adora a los niños. La protagonista cuenta en forma de cartas silenciosas dirigidas a su madre, desaparecida en dramáticas circunstancias, su realidad. Una historia de coraje, supervivencia y esperanza. Jamás la olvidarás.

"Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" è un romanzo di Ugo Foscolo, considerato il primo romanzo epistolare della letteratura italiana, nel quale sono raccolte le 67 lettere che il protagonista, Jacopo Ortis, mandò all'amico Lorenzo Alderani, che dopo il suicidio di Jacopo le avrebbe date alla stampa corredandole di una presentazione e di una conclusione. Vagamente ispirato ad un fatto reale, e al modello letterario de "I dolori del giovane Werther" di Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, l'opera risente molto dell'influsso di Vittorio Alfieri.

El diario de Adán y Eva cuenta el surgimiento de la especie humana. De manera ingeniosa, a través de lo los diarios íntimos escritos en primera persona por Adán y Eva, Mark Twain nos acerca su visión sobre el encuentro entre el primer hombre y la primera mujer, narrando con simpleza, astucia y frescura, las distintas sensibilidades y maneras de ver el mundo.

Figura insoslayable de la literatura inglesa, Jane Austen plasma en este libro una aguda novela epistolar. La obra, más corta y menos conocida de sus novelas clásicas (Mansfield Park, Orgullo y prejuicio) pone como nunca en escena dos temas recurrentes en Austen: el matrimonio por conveniencia y los vínculos de una familia de la burguesía rural.

Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French 18th-century art.

June 1940. While her little sister, Rosie, is sent to the UK to keep her safe from the invading German army, Estelle Le Maistre is left behind on Jersey to help her grandmother run the family farm. When the Germans occupy the island, everything changes and Estelle and the islanders must face the reality of life under Nazi rule.

Zwei Feindinnen in einer Zeit des Krieges. Verbotene Nachrichten, heimlich ausgetauscht auf den verlassenen Schlachtfeldern. Und eine ganz große Liebe, die Raum und Zeit überwindet. Amal El-Mohtar und Max Gladstone verbinden in diesem Kurzroman in wunderbarer, poetischer Sprache eine weltumspannende Zeitreisegeschichte mit einem Liebesroman in Briefform.

Un misto di romanzo epistolare e di diario, un genere indefinibile che Anton Giulio Barrili mette a testo con singolare maestria. Il protagonista, Rinaldo Morelli, appassionato della lirica di Orazio, si trova a trascorrere un'estate nel paese collinare toscano di Corsennaz. Nonostante la sua ritrosia nei confronti della gente di paese, sarà proprio Galatea a riempire i capitoli del suo indimenticabile romanzo.

After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat’s solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter.

Set in middle America during the economic hard times of the Nixon era, this tragicomic, epistolary masterpiece chronicles everything Andrew Whittaker - literary journal editor, negligent landlord, and aspiring novelist - commits to paper over the course of four critical months. From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, we find our hero hounded by tenants and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group, tormented by his ex-wife, and living on a diet of fried Spam, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort.

"Wie geht es Dir?" Als Johanna von Max, ihrem alten philosophischen Lehrer, eine Postkarte mit dieser scheinbar harmlosen Frage erhält, bricht es aus ihr hervor: die Trauer über den Tod ihrer Mutter, die Wut, dass man ihr im Krankenhaus verwehrt hat, die Sterbende zu begleiten. Provoziert durch weitere Postkarten, beginnt Johanna, sich den Dämonen hinter ihrer Verzweiflung zu stellen.