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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, Philosophers, Authors, Philosophy

Autobiography John Stuart Mill · 1873 · ★ 4.0 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy Shares: Autobiografie, Philosophers, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir

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 Unpublished until fifty years after the Stendhal?s death,… Shares: French Authors, French, Authors, Biography & Memoir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, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Boy Roald Dahl · 1984 · ★ 4.1 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Boy is an autobiographical book by British writer Roald Dahl. This book describes his life from birth until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career. It ends with his first job, working for Royal Dutch Shell. His autobiography continues in the book Going… Shares: Autobiografie, Authors, 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

Memorabilia Xenophon · 1650 · ★ 4.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Demanding The Memorabilia Xenophon - An essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the compelling tribute of an affectionate student to his teacher, providing a rare firsthand account of Socrates' life and philosophy. The Memorabilia is invaluable both as a work of philosophy in its own right and as a complement to the study of Plato's dialogues. The longest of Xenophon's four… Shares: Philosophers, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir

Unended quest Karl Popper · 1976 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to… Shares: Philosophers, Biography & Memoir

The Story of Philosophy Will Durant · 1926 · ★ 4.2 · 578p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Includes chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, and Nietzsche. Shares: Philosophers, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir

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

Autobiography as philosophy Thomas Mathien · 2006 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Most philosophical writing is impersonal and argumentative, but many important philosophers have nevertheless written accounts of their own lives. Filling a gap in the market for a text focusing on autobiography as philosophy, this collection discusses several such autobiographies in the light of their authors' broader work, and considers whether there are any philosophical tasks for which life… Shares: Philosophers, History and criticism, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir

The journals of André Gide, 1889-1949 André Gide · 1939 · 1280p · ≈ 42h · Challenging "Le Journal d’André Gide peut être considéré comme la pièce maîtresse de l’écrivain. Texte original, transgressif à plus d’un titre par rapport à la morale courante – les tabous de la sexualité, les idées reçues, les lieux communs, les idéologies, la religion – à la fois sérieux et drôle, grave et léger, rapide et lent – il reste d’une ampleur et d’une amplitude insoupçonnées. Cette anthologie,… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Essais Montaigne, Michel de · 1600 · ★ 4.1 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The complete essays of Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592. Shares: Philosophers, History and criticism, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet A. Jacobs · 1861 · ★ 4.2 · 152p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to… Shares: Autobiografie, Biography & Memoir

Narratives of the religious self in early-modern Scotland David George Mullan · 2010 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Drawing on a rich, yet untapped, source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives. Over 80 such personal documents, including diaries and autobiographies, manuscript and published, clerical and lay, feminine and masculine, are examined and placed both within the context of seventeenth-century… Shares: Autobiografie, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

British autobiography in the seventeenth century Paul Delany · 1969 · ★ 3.0 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Few works of a personal or self-revelatory nature were published before 1700. On the other hand, we see in seventeenth century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as Journal of the life of me, Confessions, etc. This present work is a study of nearly two hundred of those, published and unpublished."--Page 2 of cover. Shares: Autobiografie, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Mémoires d'outre-tombe François-René de Chateaubriand · 1840 · ★ 3.9 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging 253 p. : 17 cm Shares: French Authors, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

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 Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

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