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Edward Gibbon, by Henry Walton, 1773. Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796) is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.
Chapters from My Autobiography are 25 pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark Twain in the North American Review between September 1906 and December 1907. Rather than following the standard form of an autobiography, they comprise a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations.
In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1978 (1980) is the second part of Asimov's autobiography. The title is also taken from the poem. The two volumes are 640,000 words long in total. [7] In Joy Still Felt won the 1981 Locus Award for best science fiction-related nonfiction book.
Here are 50 quotes about life to motivate you. Words can hold a lot of power. They can uplift and inspire. ... Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for ...
The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life: 1848 William Wordsworth: The Prelude: 1850 Leo Tolstoy: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: 1856 Alexandre Dumas: Mes Mémoires: 1856 John Neal: Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography: 1869 Sara Coleridge: Memoir: 1874 Thomas Carlyle: Reminiscences: 1881 ...
Good-Bye to All That is an autobiography by Robert Graves which first appeared in 1929, when the author was 34 years old. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, "where I had recently broken a good many conventions". [ 1 ]
Twain circa 1906. The majority of the Autobiography was composed during this time period.. The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a written collection of reminiscences, the majority of which were dictated during the last few years of the life of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) and left in typescript and manuscript at his death.
The book received mixed reviews. Reviewing the book in The Washington Post, Gerald Early felt, "The best part of this autobiography...is Simone's recollection of her childhood," but said "in the end, [the book] seems sketchy and self-defensive....She tells very little either about the times in which she lived, or about the people who were most instrumental to her growth after her childhood ...