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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882

by Charles Darwin

Published: 1993-09-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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The only complete edition. Charles Darwin's Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin's family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all the passages they considered too personal or controversial. Th...

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The Autobiography Of Eleanor Roosevelt (Quality Paperbacks Series)

by Eleanor Roosevelt

Published: 2000-02

Paperback: 504 pages

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To tie in with the paperback publication of volume II of Blanche Wiesen Cook's acclaimed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt "Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography is above all the portrait of a person. The history it gives is history as she has seen it-not in the round but directly, with her clear a...

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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

by Margaret George

Published: 1998-09-15

Paperback: 960 pages

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Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and ...

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Autobiography of Jonathan Anthony Burkett

by Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Published: 2009-02-03

Paperback: 132 pages

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This autobiography will grip at your heart as the author pours out his very soul, flooding each page with painful echoes of the past that will not die down while kept bottled up. In time, he realizes that his own grief has been passed on to him by his mother, who experienced incredible anguish at the...

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Published: 2001-03

Paperback: 512 pages

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From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience,...

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, Attallah Shabazz

Published: 1992-11

Paperback: 460 pages

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ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIn the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Bl...

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Autobiography of Mark Twain (100th Anniversary Newly Edited and Commented Edition)

by Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain

Published: 2010-11-15

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"I intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published, after my death, and I also intend that it shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method?a form and method whereby the past and the present are consta...

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Perennial Classics)

by Mark Twain

Published: 2000-02-01

Paperback: 560 pages

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"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy."--From the Introduction by Charles NeiderMark Twain was a figure l...

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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

by Mark Twain

Published: 2010-11-15

Hardcover: 736 pages

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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan"...

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Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition (Mark Twain Papers)

by Mark Twain

Published: 2012-03-26

Paperback: 414 pages

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The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of ...