Van Gogh's letters lay bare his deepest feelings, as well as his everyday concerns and his views of the world of art.

    Written at the onset of the First World War, My Own Story brings attention to Pankhurst's cause while defending her decision to cease activism until the end of the war. Notable for its descriptions of the British prison system, My Own Story is an invaluable document of a life dedicated to others, of a historical moment in which an oppressed group rose up to advocate for the simplest of demands: equality.Born in a politically active household, Emmeline Pankhurst was introduced to the women's suffrage movement at a young age. In 1903, she founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organization dedicated to the suffragette movement. As their speeches, rallies, and petitions failed to make headway, they turned to militant protest, and in 1908 Emmeline was arrested for attempting to enter Parliament to deliver a document to Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. Imprisoned for six weeks, she observed the horrifying conditions of prison life, including solitary confinement. This experience changed her outlook on the struggle for women's suffrage, and she increasingly saw imprisonment as a means of radical publicity. Over the next several years, she would be arrested seven times for rioting, destroying property, and assaulting police officers, and while in prison staged hunger strikes in order to gain the attention of the press and political establishment. My Own Story is a record of one woman's tireless advocacy for the sake of countless others.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Emmeline Pankhurst's My Own Story is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

    In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold Pomerans in Penguin Classics.Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's, and this selection, spanning his artistic career, sheds light on every facet of the life and work of this complex and tortured man. Engaging candidly and movingly with his religious struggles, his ill-fated search for love, his attacks of mental illness and his relation with his brother Theo, the letters contradict the popular myth of van Gogh as an anti-social madman and a martyr to art, showing instead a man of great emotional and spiritual depths. Above all, they stand as an intense personal narrative of artistic development and a unique account of the process of creation.The letters are linked by explanatory biographical passages, revealing van Gogh's inner journey as well as the outer facts of his life. This edition also includes the drawings that originally illustrated the letters.Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was born in Holland. In 1885 he painted his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters, a haunting scene of domestic poverty. A year later he began studying in Paris, where he met Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat, who became very important influences on his work. In 1888 he left Paris for the Provencal landscape at Arles, the subject of many of his best works, including Sunflowers.If you enjoyed The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, you might also like 100 Artists Manifestos, available in Penguin Modern Classics.'If there was ever any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent new edition dispels it'The Times

    "One of the most valuable and interesting books of travel that has been written on Siberia." Bulletin, 1915 "The name of the author is a guarantee that the book is worth reading." American Geographical Society, 1915 "His power as a graphic writer and unusually equipped observer finds full expression in his remarkably interesting book." The Bookseller, 1914 "One is amazed at the scope of his book and the mass of interesting matter it contains." Geographical Journal, 1915 Nansen's book "Through Siberia" is an exciting account of the author's eventful journey by sea, river and rail from Norway, via the Kara Sea, to eastern Siberia. Published in 1914 as "Gjennem Sibirien," an English translation by Arthur Grosvenor Chater (1866-1951) was published in 1914. In August 1913, the steamer Correct left Norway loaded with goods for Siberia to make an attempt to open up a regular trade connection with the Yenisei River. August 27, the vessel safely reached the mouth of the Yenisei, discharged her cargo into river boats and returned to Norway without at any time being obstructed by the ice. Fridtjof Nansen (1861 –1930), who was a guest of the Siberian Company continued the journey up the Yenisei to Krasnoyarsk, and from there, as a guest of the chief engineer of the Imperial Russian railways, continued the trip over the Siberian Railroad to Vladivostok. From Vladivostok the journey homeward was via the new line of railroad being constructed along the Amur River, using steamboat and motor car where the railroad is in construction, and railway hand car over the completed sections, to the main Siberian line and thence to Europe. We are fortunate in having his account of that journey by water and land from Norway to Vladivostok. In wealth of information "Through Siberia" is premier among works on Siberia, while it possesses all the charm of description of those earlier books, "First Crossing of Greenland" and "Farthest North". As a lifelong student of out-of-door Nature Nansen sees what he looks at and makes scientific inferences from what he sees; his inferences reach into deep waters and beneath tundra and mountain; they connect the present with a prehistoric past. Needless to say, there is not a dull page or superfluous paragraph in the volume, and Nansen has lost none of his descriptive power. The author sees and describes the native Samoyedes, the Russian traders, political exiles, and the Siberian peasant, as well as ethnological and geological questions, industrial, social and political conditions, and the China-Russian problems created by the Japanese war. Regarding the Chinese, Nansen writes: "When it comes to fleecing natives, no European is a match for the Chinese. They poison them with their pernicious Chinese spirit, khanshin, and they also give them opium; they coax their sables and other valuable furs out of them at a ridiculous price, and charge heavily for their own goods which they supply in return; they contrive to get the natives so deeply into their debt that they can never be free, but must always procure them furs. They use their power over the natives to make them fear the Russians as their enemies and see in the Chinese their friends and saviours." Nansen notes that "Russia is unwilling to have her territory populated by Chinese and she has passed severe legislation against their immigration; but she is utterly unable without their labor to develop the resources of her eastern country. One of the results of her attitude is the growth of a strong feeling of hostility on the part of the Chinese.

    These last do not appear in the text, but are given on a separate page in the back part of the volume. In spite of these omissions, it is hoped that this compilation may have some value as a concise reference book for the general reader or for schools. With a View toward simplicity, the writer has given no exact figures such as would be necessary in an advanced textbook, but has stated all numerical values in the closest approximate terms.There has been added - what the compiler has never happened to see before - a tabulated chronology of the main events in the history of Astronomy, and also a chapter very briefly de scribing the various instruments now used in the great observatories.In the bibliography at the end of the volume, are listed the titles of all the books used for reference in checking the descriptions, figures, and statements given. To the authors of all of these books, the writer is much indebted. Following each title is a short note, endeavoring to present an idea of the scope of that volume. If, upon reaching this bibliography, the reader is enough interested in the greatest and most ancient of sciences to turn to some of these real books upon the subject, the main purpose of these pages will have been accomplished.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.