Letter collections have existed as a form of literature in most times and places where letter-writing played a prominent part of public life.

He was an incorrigible womaniser, his life was chock full of unrequited love, and he seemed to prefer desire to consummation. A pocket-sized celebration of correspondence that serves to narrate the battles that have shaped our world. It will also be available for download within 48 hours, and you can find it either as a new resource, or under 'Alternative versions' above.

Through a series of letters, Andy Lamberton imagines how a mentor might have encouraged Daniel to stand firm despite the pressures he faced. Pliny the Younger's letters are the oldest extant letter collection in which the letters were collected by the author himself. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. What you get instead is this apparently tweedy, peevish, reactionary figure – but underneath it amazingly perceptive and very funny. This books is a series of imagined letters from an imagined mentor to Daniel as he goes into exile in Babylon.

The compilation of the collection was due to the struggle of the Armenian Church against Chalcedonism.

This small book sample explains how we structure our book layout, the cover and the title page, how we use different font types and sizes, and the different ways in which we (or you) arrange photos on a page. Alma Pöysti’s version of Tove combines intelligence and melacholy as well as humour and flirt in a wonderful way.

It strikes me that the Romantic movement in poetry, or its second generation at least, is very much one of projection of bardic identity. Imagine receiving 10, 20, 50 such letters all at once, penned by your friends and collected in an elegant book. Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. The director of the film is Zaida Bergroth, a highly acclaimed Finnish director for which this will be the fifth feature-length drama.

Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. It’s not a childhood one would have wished on anyone – with an awful mother and sinister hangers-on in court, and the sense that apart from her old uncle William [IV] on the throne, she was the only one of her family left and would be Queen. We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.