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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 ...

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

by Ernest J. Gaines

Published: 1982-08-01

Paperback: 259 pages

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"This is a novel in the guise of the  tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has  lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a  witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this  woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure,  a woman equipped to stand besi...

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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel

by Melanie Benjamin

Published: 2011-07-26

Hardcover: 448 pages

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In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who beca...

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Autobiography of Red

by Anne Carson

Published: 1998-08-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic t...