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'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s letter to his parents in May 1939, welcoming them to Cuba where they had just arrived after fleeing from Nazi Germany at the last minute. At the end of 1939 his parents moved again to Florida and then to New York, where they lived from August 1940 until the end of their lives. It is only with Adorno’s move to California at the end of 1941 that his letters to his parents start arriving once more, reporting on work and living conditions as well as on friends, acquaintances and the Hollywood stars of his time. One finds reports of his collaborations with Max Horkheimer, Thomas Mann and Hanns Eisler alongside accounts of parties, clowning around with Charlie Chaplin, and ill-fated love affairs. But the letters also show his constant longing for Europe: Adorno already began to think about his return as soon as the USA entered the war. Adorno’s letters to his parents – surely the most open and direct letters he ever wrote – not only afford the reader a glimpse of the experiences that gave rise to the famous Minima Moralia, but also show Adorno from a previously unknown, very personal side. They end with the first reports from the ravaged Frankfurt to his mother – who remained in New York – and from Amorbach, Adorno’s childhood paradise


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Автор: Марк Твен

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The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.


Models of letters for the use of schools and private students Models of letters for the use of schools and private students

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Models of letters : for the use od schools and private students : being an epitome of the large 8 volume, entitled, Elegant epistles : and containig Select letters from the best English authors : with many translated from the French, which have never appeared in any miscellaneous collection».


Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century : illustrative of the Herbert family ; and of the latter part of king William's and the earlier part of queen Anne's reigns : with notes / edited by Rebecca Warner».


Letters from the late Rev. William Romaine Letters from the late Rev. William Romaine

Автор: William Romaine

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Letters from the late Rev. William Romaine, A.M. tо a friend, on the most important subjects : during a correspondence of 20 years / published from the original manuscripts, by Thomas Wills, A.B.».


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Автор: John Wade

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Junius : Vol. 1 : including letters by the same writer under other signatures : to which are added his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters to Mr. H.S. Woodfall : containing the entier work as originally published, with illustrative notes / by John Wade ; with new evidence as to the authorship, and an analysis by the late Sir Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G.».