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Terre des hommes Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1936 · ★ 4.1 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A lyrical account of the author’s time as a pilot flying the dangerous mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Many incidents are recounted, including the time he crashed his plane in the Sahara and, along with his navigator, is forced to walk for days without food or water before finding safety. Shares: French Personal narratives, French Authors, World War II, Authors

Meḿoires de guerre Charles de Gaulle · 1940 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Originally published in three separate volumes covering three distinct periods, this single edition encompasses all the personal writings by one of this century's most prominent generals and statesmen from the fall of France in 1940 to the aftermath of World War II in 1946. The first section, "The Call to Honor," recounts the confusion and despair triggered by Hitler's blitzkrieg invasion of… Shares: French Personal narratives, Personal narratives, World War II, Biography & Memoir

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth · 1897 · ★ 3.0 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Dorothy Wordsworth's Scottish tour unfolds as a living journal of weather, landscape, and human kindness, carried from Loch Katrine and Glen Coe to Edinburgh, Melrose, and the borderlands beyond. In rain, mist, and difficult crossings, she records not only mountains, sea-lochs, ferries, and ruined abbeys, but also the warmth of the people who shelter the travelers along the way. At Loch Lomond… Shares: Journal intime, Diaries, Biography & Memoir

Les confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782 · ★ 3.6 · 674p · ≈ 22h · Demanding Je forme une entreprise qui n'eut jamais d'exemple, et dont l'execution n'aura point d'imitateur. Je veux montrer a mes semblables un homme dans toute la verite de la nature; et cet homme, ce sera moi. Moi seul. Je sens mon coeur, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme aucun de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent. Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins… Shares: French Authors, Correspondence, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Vailima letters Robert Louis Stevenson · 1895 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Robert Louis Stevenson, long recognized as a master storyteller and essayist, was also a prolific letter writer. His letters, some 2800 pieces of correspondence, have been published in eight volumes. Volume VII covers the period from September 1890 to January 1893. Shares: Correspondence, Authors, Travel, Biography & Memoir

Poems Lord Byron · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm Shares: Journal intime, Correspondence, Diaries, Biography & Memoir

Quand j'étais vieux Georges Simenon · 1970 · ★ 3.6 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 421 S. 18 cm Shares: French Authors, Correspondence, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Recollections of an old soldier Capt. David Perry (b. 1741) · 1822 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging As they were in those days, the full title of Capt David Perry's book is its own description: Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars, containing many extraordinary occurrences relating to his own private history, and an account of some interesting events in the history of the times in which he lived, no-where else… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History

Sing as we go Gracie Fields · 1960 · ★ 4.2 · 203p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This is Gracie Field's autobiography, published in 1960 in England and 1961 in the United States. She was a major star in England. She made her first stage appearance as a child in 1905, acting in children's repertory theatre groups such as 'Haley's Garden of Girls' and the 'Nine Dainty Dots'. Her two sisters, Edith and Betty and brother, Tommy, all went on to appear on stage, but Gracie was the… Shares: Correspondence, World War II, Biography & Memoir

Une mort tres douce Simone de Beauvoir · 1964 · ★ 4.1 · 123p · ≈ 4h · Moderate La journée du mardi se passa bien. La nuit, maman fit des cauchemars. On me met dans une boîte, disait-elle à ma sœur. Je suis là, mais je suis dans la boîte. Je suis moi, et ce n'est plus moi. Des hommes emportent la boîte! Elle se débattait: Ne les laisse pas m'emporter! Longtemps Poupette a gardé la main posée sur son front: Je te promets. Ils ne te mettront pas dans la boîte. Elle a réclamé… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott · 1889 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts. Shares: Correspondence, Diaries, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Photobiography Akane Kawakami · 2013 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the real, and the nature of the… Shares: French Authors, Biography & Memoir, History

Works (La tregua / Se questo è un uomo) Primo Levi · 1963 · ★ 4.4 · 397p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The author's survival in Auschwitz and his travels through Eastern Europe and Russia are the subjects of this memoir. Shares: Personal narratives, World War II, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Words Jean-Paul Sartre · 1964 · ★ 3.7 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success"[citation needed]. In November of the same year, 1964, he refused the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded for his work, described as "rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

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Ker-bloom! artnoose · 1996 artnoose chronicles their bike trip from Euegene, Oregon to Berkeley, California with their friend Scott. Scott teaches them to stop and take in their surroundings, and artnoose fills the perzine with vivid descriptions of landmarks (such as redwoods and rock formations called 'sea stacks", the pair encountered on their 10 day journey. Lastly, the author reflects on the importance of their… Shares: Personal narratives, Travel

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History

Memoirs of an egoist Stendhal · 1927 · ★ 4.0 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author?s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal?s intended autobiography. Along with Journals of Italy, these volumes comprise what Andr Gide has called one of the truly great autobiographies in any language. Unpublished until fifty years after the Stendhal?s death,… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Homage to Catalonia George Orwell · 1938 · ★ 4.1 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging [Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spanish defend their Republic from General Franco's Fascist forces. Orwell joined the [POUM][3] Militia in the Catalan region of Spain, was injured in the fighting and invalided back to England. After… Shares: Personal narratives, Correspondence, Travel, Biography & Memoir

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