Topics featured range from discussions on the shortness of life and anger to immortality and death. The Letters are part of the foundation of Stoic thought making Seneca one of the indispensable thinkers from Ancient Roman philosophy.

With this collection of letters, presented for the first time as a Scribner Classic, a new Hemingway emerges.

In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair.

Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred different documents giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabella and Ferdinand. These texts are examined for authenticity and authority, and Columbus's views on the Indians.

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi.

First published in 1973, this collection of Chekhov's correspondence is widely regarded as the best introduction to this great Russian writer.

At the same time, this collection, in Stephen Mitchell’s definitive translation, reveals the thoughts and feelings of one of the greatest poets and most distinctive sensibilities of the twentieth century.

"Richardson's rich and extensive book on Ralph Waldo Emerson is a guide to the fire that burned always at the center of Emerson's life. . . . To read this book is to be touched on the shoulder by a thousand years of poetry and thought. . .

After Green Gables brings to life a distinctly Canadian literary and intellectual association of writers.

Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment.