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Life Writing as World Literature

A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by and becomes world literatu…

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Jim Dine
Jim Dine: With Fragile Spirit

These poems address the past and the now. For me, that's about it... - Jim DineFew contemporary artists can demonstrate an œuvre as varied, consistent and influential as that of Jim Dine---incorporating p…

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Michael Wheeler
William Ewart Gladstone

The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's ap…

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Lawrence Buell
Henry David Thoreau

Very Short Introductions

"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..."Henry Da…

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Laurent Ziegler, Manfred Nowak, Sonja Busch,
Laurent Ziegler

"The childhood of my memory" is a story about transformation and healing, the author's very personal journey to his own heart and to a self worthy of love and life. The publication provides an i…

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Brett Winestock
Written for the Drawer

Russian-Jewish writer Leonid Tsypkin (1926--82), a doctor by trade, wrote primarily "for the drawer," fearing professional consequences if he were to publish his fiction. Despite Tsypkin's almos…

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Nora Ephron
I Feel Bad About My Neck

Soak up the wisdom of the inimitable Nora Ephron with this stunning 20th-anniversary special edition, featuring a foreword by Dolly Alderton. The perfect gift for yourself or a friend.**'Ephron has an unc…

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Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Mirrors of Empire

Approaches the history of the Mughal Empire at the level of human experience, through a diverse group of autobiographical narratives.Starting from 1526, the Mughals ruled over much of India for three cent…

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Keiji Nakazawa
Barefoot Gen 1

Barefoot Gen is the powerful, tragic, autobiographical story of the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath, seen through the eyes of the artist as a young boy growing up in Japan. The author survived the …

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Audre Lorde
Coal

Penguin Modern Classics

'I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.'Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coalshowcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplici…

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Jeff Hiller
Actress of a Certain Age

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A humorous collection of autobiographical essays from comedian andEmmy Award--winning actor Jeff Hiller, who shares his journey from growing up "profoundly gay" in 1980s Te…

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Clare Brant
Underwater Lives

Exploring the changing relations between humans, marine beings and oceans as captured in the autobiographical writings of divers, sea-species biographers and underwater photographers over the last hundred…

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Gerard De Nerval,
Little Castles of Bohemia

Fully translated into English for the first time, Nerval's autobiographical anthology encompasses his complete literary career, which influenced such authors as Marcel Proust, André Breton and Antonin Art…

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Hannah Crafts,
The Bondwoman's Narrative

Thought to be the first novel written by a Black female slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story.When her master is betrothed to a woman who c…

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J G Ballard,
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure i…

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Gary Short
The Stars That Fell

The Stars That Fell infuses poetry with a new meaning for modern Nevada and the American West. Using autobiographical details and testimony mixed with Nevada history and folklore, this poetry collection f…

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Taha Hussein,
The Days

Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is difficu…

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Brigitte Giraud,
Live Fast

Winner of the Prix GoncourtA powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable sus…

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Nora Ephron
I Feel Bad About My Neck

Soak up the wisdom of the inimitable Nora Ephron with this stunning 20th-anniversary special edition, featuring a foreword by Dolly Alderton. The perfect gift for yourself or a friend.**'Ephron has an unc…

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Willis Salomon
Jazz, Race, and Writing, 1945-1970

This book widens the context of our understanding of the "modern" American jazz of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s by looking at writing about it by both musicians and commentators.Jazz, Race, and Writi…

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