JS Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop The story, subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented", is Hardy's most poignant chronicle of life's ironies and the pain of the human condition.
In The Los Angeles Times, Howard Rosenberg called the documentary "a revealing, achingly poignant chronicle of five beginning teachers in Los Angeles who won't remind you of anyone on 'Boston Public.' " That Fox series deals with a Boston high school that often seems improbable.
Li Weisi's monotone English lyrics, though scarcely intelligible, offer a poignant chronicle of urban alienation in a city steadily losing ground to the Gobi desert.
But their correspondence of hundreds of letters – which finished when Kafka wrote the last letter in 1917 and only came to the world's attention in 1955, when Bauer sold his letters to her – is one of the most poignant chronicles of the human urge to share ourselves, while foregoing the vulnerability that such intimacy creates.
"These photographs are a poignant and powerful chronicle of Ai's artistic vision and emerging political consciousness during his time in New York, Asiaa Society museum Director Melissa Chiu said in a statement.
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Puffin £6.99, pp211 Meg Rosoff's impressive debut blurs the boundary between youth and adult fiction, the result being a compelling exploration of the teenage psyche, in which the backdrop of the Third World War offers a poignant setting for the chronicle of protagonist Daisy's coming of age.
In a poignant tale from "The Martian Chronicles," Ray Bradbury's 1950 collection of science fiction loosely rooted in the history of Southern California, a Martian fulfills the wishes of humans it encounters by taking the form of someone they have lost.
A few years ago, he was chairman of the Cannes jury that gave a prize to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which chronicles, in grim and poignant detail, the efforts of two friends looking for an abortion in Ceausescu's Romania.
Moynahan's sharp text, accompanied by hundreds of poignant, piercing black-and-white photos, chronicles an entire people riven by world wars, the Irish "Troubles" and a rigid class system, yet unified by an indomitable, ineffable Englishness — summed up by a stunning photo of a milkman making his rounds amidst the smoking rubble after the bombing of London.
In a new book, "My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World," he chronicles, in alternately comic and poignant tones, a 10-month period spent testing every pound-shedding strategy imaginable: exercise regimens, 12-step programs, diets, workouts with Richard Simmons.
A world where the only sane response to witnessing mass civilian slaughter by one's own countrymen was to chronicle its grotesque absurdity and the poignant details of all pawns of war with unsparing humour.
