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Cicero:  Selected Letters

Cicero: Selected Letters

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Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you...
Life Among the Savages

Life Among the Savages

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From the queen of domestic horror, this is a masterpiece of domestic comedy. Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
The Diary of Lady Murasaki

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

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Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...
My Autobiography

My Autobiography

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Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I hope I will be...
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Author: Azar Nafisi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'That room, for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was!' Every Thursday morning...
One-Way Street and Other Writings

One-Way Street and Other Writings

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Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

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Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography,...
Out of Africa

Out of Africa

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Author: Isak Dinesen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the...
An Autobiography

An Autobiography

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Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...
Autobiography

Autobiography

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Author: Morrissey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has...
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

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Author: Jan Karski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish...
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
Henry and June

Henry and June

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Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...
My Life

My Life

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Author: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...
Lives of the Artists

Lives of the Artists

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Author: Giorgio Vasari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny

The Letters of the Younger Pliny

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Author: The Younger Pliny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c....
The Yage Letters: Redux

The Yage Letters: Redux

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Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he...