Buy this book on-line CLAXTON, EVE - Edited by: : THE BOOK OF LIFE: A COMPENDIUM OF THE BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND MEMOIR WRITING.LONDON.EBURY PRESS,2005. ISBN 0091900336.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-10.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,glossy laminated,photographic illustrated dw/dj,with brown+b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though lightly aged/ toned,bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unead? Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards,with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain dark maroon endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ixpp-xxixpp+33-496pp [paginated] includes an editor's intro,4 sections (Beginnings,Youth,Mid-life and Old Age) sections/chapters,biographies,credits+ sources,and an index of contributors (163). Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, autobiographical prose extracts with acknowledgements to verso,and a contents list/table.
'THE BOOK OF LIFE' is an intensely captivating,diverse collection of the best memoir and autobiographical writing through the ages.Organised into four parts,this unusually enriching book begins in childhood and takes the reader on a thought -provoking journey spanning the length of an entire life.
From Charlie Chaplin's dandily dressed childhood walks through Victorian London and Alan Bennett's wartime boyhood in Yorkshire to the day Muhammad Ali discovered boxing and Mahatma Gandhi experimented with cigarettes: from Primo Levi's capture by Fascist militia at 21 and Katharine Hepburn's first acting job at the same age to Vladimir Nabokov on becoming a late father,Charles Darwin on his lifelong love - his work - and Nelson Mandela on being released from prison at 71.
With insights that encompass professions, generations and continents this is a uniquely enjoyable immersion in some of the world's best.and most personal,writing.
Beginning at childhood and progressing through adulthood,if not necessarily maturity,'THE BOOK OF LIFE' offers the literary journey of a lifetime,in the company of the world's greatest writers, artists,poets,scientists,showmen,statesmen,saints and superstars. . .
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