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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 ...
It was her last published book before her death on December 23, 2021. The book includes 12 essays, written between 1968 and 2000, and a foreword by critic Hilton Als. Like many of Didion's previous essay collections, the pieces in the book represent a mixture of reporting, memoir and criticism. Let Me Tell You What I Mean was a critical success.
Nimoy later followed up with a second autobiography in 1995, [4] this time entitled I Am Spock, [5] although he also considered the title Maybe I Am Spock. [6] He discussed the response to I Am Not Spock in a feature called "Reflections on Spock", which was included in the Star Trek: The Original Series season one HD DVD set, released in 2007. [7]
One essay defends Angelou's support of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, and another one centers on her friend Oprah Winfrey. Stars was an immediate bestseller, prompting Random House to increase their first printing of 350,000 copies to 375,000, even before Angelou began her national book tour to promote it.
"Such, Such Were the Joys" is a long autobiographical essay by the English writer George Orwell.. In the piece, Orwell describes his experiences between the ages of eight and thirteen, in the years before and during World War I (from September 1911 to December 1916), while a pupil at a preparatory school: St Cyprian's, in the seaside town of Eastbourne, in Sussex.
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos (boxed set in 2 volumes) – edited by William Cronon; Contains The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected Universe, The Invisible Pyramid, The Night Country, essays from The Star Thrower, and uncollected prose (2016) Library of America. Memoirs
Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) Royal Governor of New Jersey.While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, the 65-year-old Franklin begins by describing his parents and grandparents, recounting his childhood, expressing his fondness for reading, and narrating his apprenticeship to his brother James Franklin, a ...
The book was published in 1995, four years after the release of the last Star Trek motion picture starring the entire original cast, and covers the majority of Nimoy's time with Star Trek in general and Mr. Spock in particular. The book's title was a reference to the first volume of his autobiography, I Am Not Spock, which had been published in ...