« Le 2 septembre 1893, le paquebot La Champagne jetait l'ancre dans la baie de New York. » Ainsi commence le journal tenu par Amédée Girard, un émigré « ordinaire » et anonyme comme des millions d'autres exilés en Amérique à la fin du xixe siècle. De New York à Montréal, o il se fixe dès son arrivée, l'auteur note les observations et les impressions que lui inspire son nouveau lieu de vie. Villageois jurassien contraint à un voyage...

An American writer joins her husband, a contractor/consultant working in Iraq, to live in Amman, Jordan, and keeps a diary of day-to-day events. Out of this emerge so many stories of the pain and frustration of a forgotten world dating from a half-century earlier-the Palestinians who fled Israel in the '48 and '67 wars. In both cases - whether the Iraqi war or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - she finds herself squarely within the enemy camp and...

Best remembered as the author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift was a Dublin native whose political pamphleteering led to a London-based position as editor of a conservative periodical. This journal, written between 1710–1713, consists of 65 letters to his friend and protégée, Esther "Stella" Johnson, and her companion, Rebecca Dingley. The letters sparkle with the satirist's renowned wit and offer an intimate account of the personalities,...

Welcome to April's fantasy. This is a replica of the anonymous journal that captured April's heart in the feature film, April Flowers. A romantic quest across New York City, April Flowers tells the story of one woman's adventure as she seeks to return an anonymous journal left upon the subway. Captivated by the personal ramblings within, April builds a fantasy that complicates her real-life relationships. This is a collection of those writings....

In November 1949, Davidson Don Tengo (D.D.T.) Jabavu, the South African politician, Methodist lay preacher and retired professor of African languages and Latin at Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. The conference brought together delegates from over thirty countries to reflect on how Mahatma Gandhi's life and teachings could inform pacifist work in the post-World War...

Paul Wenz was born in France in 1869, lived in Australia, and wrote stories dealing mainly with his Australian experiences for the French. He wrote ten books from 'Nanima', his homestead in Forbes, New South Wales, including two collections of short stories and four Australian novels. He also translated Jack London and Joseph Conrad, both who came to visit him in Australia. Diary of a New Chum and Other Lost Stories contains many stories never before...

Que signifie prendre racine, s'insérer dans un espace, le faire ntre, le transformer à notre image et, en retour, devenir autre sous son influence? En somme, que signifie devenir « abitant»? Le terme a longtemps été péjoratif chez nous: quasi-synonyme de personne inculte, rustre, ours mal dégrossi , le péquenaud des Français. À tort. C'est toute une aventure que celle de devenir habitant, aventure que nos aïeux ont menée à bien,...

Le phare est seul comme le génie. Le phare possède l'harmonie d'une architecture parfaite et la rigueur d'un chiffre. Le phare dissipe l'équivoque mortelle des nuits en mer : il est l'étincelle d'intelligence précise qui brille dans le désordre de la nature. Le phare est donc devenu symbole. Mais quoique la clarté n'engendre pas le mystère, le phare sue toujours le mystère, parce qu'il est le témoin muet de la tempête et de la mort,...

Carefully selected passages from 55 years of journal entries: thoughts, religious sentiments, impressions of books, authors, contemporaries, much more. Splendid, revealing record of Emerson's personal beliefs, as well as a social and historical record of his age.

The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau's voluminous Journal.