The World's Best Memoir Writing: The Literature of Life from St. Augustine to Gandhi, and from Pablo Picasso to Nelson Mandela

by Eve Claxton

Book Overview

Eve Claxton has taken the most intriguing portions of the world's most famous memoirs and compiled them in this volume. The reader experiences world history as the authors lived it and gains rare insight into the lives and personalities of some of the world's most important writers, thinkers, athletes and artists. From Charlie Chaplin's childhood walks through Victorian London and Alan Bennett's wartime boyhood in Yorkshire to the day MuhammadAli...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402209754
• ISBN13: 9781402209758
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"