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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fennimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843. The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief.
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Anton Reiser
xv, 456 p. ; 23 cm
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Tagebücher
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable…
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Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
In the last years of his life.
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Alcatraz
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Briefe an Milena
**Letters to Milena** is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923.
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The letters were originally published in German in 1952 as Briefe an Milena, edited by Willy Haas, who decided to delete certain passages which he thought might hurt people who were still alive at the time. The collection was first…
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Immortality
Immortality
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A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity
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The Library of American Biography
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Mr. Nice
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Two Sisters
Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.”
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Autobiography
Autobiography
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography
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Missing Persons
Missing Persons
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Là-bas
Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly…
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En route
The plot of the novel is as simple as it could be. I've taken the principal character of Là-Bas, Durtal, had him converted and sent him to a Trappist monastery. In studying his conversion, I've tried to trace the progress of a soul surprised by the gift of grace, and developing in an ecclesiastical atmosphere, to the accompaniment of mystical literature, liturgy, and plainchant, against a…
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A Reporter's Life
Walter Cronkite gives an account of his personal life as that of a reporter and T.V. newscaster.
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The uncommercial traveller
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
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