Private address as an unusually direct literary form. Faith, political witness, friendship, longing, and daily judgment appear before they have been polished into retrospective narrative.
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Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
About the bookThis volume presents a collection of personal letters, diaries, and notes by Mother Teresa, edited by Brian Kolodiejchuk. While the world often remembers her for her public ministry amo…
8/10About a Person : LettersRilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
About the bookThis volume presents the extensive correspondence between the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the psychoanalyst and writer Lou Andreas-Salomé, spanning their relationship from the 1890s thr…
7/10About a Person : LettersLetters from Burma
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| Jane Austen's Letters | Jane Austen | 2011 | 6 | Read | → |
| Letters from Burma | Aung San Suu Kyi | 1997 | 7 | Read | → |
| Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumes 1–3 | Thomas Jefferson | 1829 | 6 | Read | → |
| Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light | Mother Teresa, Brian Kolodiejchuk | 2007 | 9 | Read | → |
| Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters | Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé | 2006 | 8 | Read | → |
