Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the ...

Rousseau's argumentative skills immediately emerge in the opening pages of "La Nouvelle Heloise" and remain the dominant artistic technique throughout his epistolary work of ...

This work focuses on reportorial writers in French eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who wrote in the Addisonian tradition--a tradition that has to do with the ...