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This anthology provides rare access to key original documents illuminating Mormon history, theology, and culture in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. Brief introductions describe the theological significance of each text and its reflection of the practices, issues, and challenges that have defined and continue to define the Mormon community. These documents balance mainstream and peripheral thought and religious experience, institutional and personal perspective, and theoretical and practical interpretation, representing pivotal moments in LDS history and correcting decades of misinformation and stereotype. The authors of these documents, male and female, not only celebrate but speak critically and question mainline LDS teachings on sexuality, politics, gender, race, polygamy, and other issues. Selections largely focus on the Salt Lake-based LDS tradition, with a section on the post-Joseph Smith splintering and its creation of a variety of similar yet different Mormon groups. The documents are arranged chronologically within specific categories to capture both the historical and doctrinal development of Mormonism in the United States.

A collection of letters between Beat Generation authors Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg that highlight their unique friendship and the influence they had on one another's work.

Collects the letters of Charles Darwin, in chronological order, which he sent and received during his trip aboard the "Beagle," chronicling his landing on his first tropical island, observation of an earthquake's destruction, and arrival at the Galapagos Islands, where he collected many specimens which led to the development of his theories.

Contains a collection of translations of the writings of twentieth-century German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, and provides a distillation of his various philosophies and world views.

Presents more than three hundred poems and approximately one hundred letters by nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson.

Recounts life in Stalin's Gulag prison in the late 1940's through the hundreds of love letters between Lev Mishchenko, falsely accused of treason, and his fianc?e, Sveta.

Collects the letters, proposals, and poems--including extant works and variants--of eighteenth-century African-American writer Phillis Wheatley, who, a teenage female slave, became the first internationally well-known Black poet in the English language. Also includes writings by her contemporaries, and an introduction to her life and career.

Presents a collection of writings by nineteenth-century author Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.

Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the first to write programs for, and predict the impact of, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843.