Autobiography: literary books

A witty, unflinching, and provocative memoir about one woman’s journey into the fact, fiction, and fraud of the...  Read More >>

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"A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s,...  Read More >>

Includes reading group guide (pages 357-360).  Read More >>

The True Story of My Life from Hans Christian Andersen. Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales...  Read More >>

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Victor Hugo's classic work.  Read More >>

Into the life of the author, a novel appears, as if by chance, and changes everything. As a child in a music class...  Read More >>

Within these pages, I offer an account of a once strong herd of wild horses that ran fast, and ran free, until various...  Read More >>

Within these pages, I offer an account of a once strong herd of wild horses that ran fast, and ran free, until various...  Read More >>

This is the second volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half...  Read More >>

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First published in Great Britain by viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK --Copyright page.  Read More >>

Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature In A...  Read More >>

First published in Great Britain by viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK --Copyright page.  Read More >>

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Victor Hugo's classic work.  Read More >>

The Memoirs of Victor Hugoby Victor HugoThis is not a diary of events arranged in chronological order, nor is it...  Read More >>

"""Anonymous memoir of a daughter's abuse by, and attachment to, her father""--"  Read More >>

Originally published in 1959, this is a collection of Mailer's stories, essays, polemic, meditations and interviews....  Read More >>

The warm and witty paperback reinvention of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller This is Dawn French's fabulously...  Read More >>

The wry and amusing journals of royal biographer and Sunday Telegraph journalist Kenneth Rose, one of the most astute...  Read More >>

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From 1915 until her death in 1941 Virginia Woolf kept a diary. This volume consists of extracts, selected by her...  Read More >>

The first of a two-volume memoir, Between Two Millstones, Book 1 explores Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s exile from the...  Read More >>

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, Xiaolu Guo's memoir documents her trajectory from a small...  Read More >>

This comparative critical study of Willa Cather and Marguerite Duras reveals the blurring of fiction and autobiography...  Read More >>