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A Letter to a Friend (written 1656; published posthumously in 1690), by Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th century philosopher and physician, is a medical treatise of case-histories and witty speculations upon the human condition.
The letter was addressed to his close friend and fellow writer Masao Kume. [1] Akutagawa begins the note by stating his reason for his decision. He mentions that the author Régnier wrote in one of his short stories that no one who commits suicide fully knows why they do. [2] "A vague sense of anxiety about my own future" is the reason ...
Letters, especially those with a signature and/or on an organization's own notepaper, are more difficult to falsify than is an email, and thus provide much better evidence of the contents of the communication. A letter in the sender's own handwriting is more personal than an e-mail and shows that the sender has taken the effort to write it.
"Manners of Dying" (short story) 1993 Letter The book is presented as a set of different variants of an official letter that a warden writes to a mother of an executed prisoner named Kevin Barlow. In each letter both the exact details of Kevin's execution and the warden's reaction vary slightly Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas: 2004
Life's too short to abandon friendships In your recent opinion column, "Why 60% of people polled say friendships with Trump voters now impossible or iffy," your question was, "What do you think ...
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters is a collection of letters written by American author Kurt Vonnegut, edited by his friend and fellow writer Dan Wakefield.Published by Delacorte Press on October 30, 2012, the book compiles a wide range of Vonnegut's correspondence spanning his entire life, offering insight into his personal thoughts, relationships, and the development of his literary career.
Frog and Toad Are Friends is an American children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1970. [1] It inaugurated the Frog and Toad series, whose four books each comprise five easy-to-read short stories.
"A Gentleman Friend" (‹See Tfd› Russian: Знакомый мужчина, romanized: Znakomyi muzhchina) is a short story by Anton Chekhov originally published on 20 April (o.s. 3 May) 1886 in Oskolki (Issue No. 18), titled "A Little Bit of Pain" (Немножко боли) and signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте).