The Book of Life
by Eve Claxton (Editor)
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Eve Claxton presents this anthology of the finest memoir writing through the centuries - from the world's greatest writers, artists, poets, scientists, showmen, statesmen, saints, swindlers and superstars.Tags
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Eve Claxton is the co-writer for several works of nonfiction. She is the editor of The Book of Life. She also works as a production consultant at NPR's StoryCorps, the National Oral History Project. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- This compendium of autobiographical and memoir-writing is meant for general reading, as a kind of sampler of some of the great personal prose already in existence. - Introduction
For at that time I knew how to suck, to be satisfied when comfortable and to cry when in pain - nothing beyond. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It is true that much of the far distance is shrouded in cloud and mist, but every here and there the fog thins a little and one can see clearly the advance of mankind.
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