Genre
Biography & Memoir.
From the confessions of St. Augustine to the contemporary queer kinship of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, this collection holds lives lived out loud. Intimate memoirs, historic autobiographies, and personal letters trace the complexities of identity, freedom, and faith across centuries. Each book offers a portal into another mind—a record of what it means, and costs, to be alive.
Biography & Memoir
Emily Brontë
A biography of Emily Brontë, the fiercely private author of Wuthering Heights, seeking the life and inner world behind one of English literature's most singular and enigmatic imagi
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Rizal's own story of his life
The life of José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, drawn largely from his own words: the memories, reflections and testimony of the writer and patriot whose ideas helped awake
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.
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A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them
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Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812: For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical
The private letters of Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine trace one of history's most famous relationships from passionate ardor to estrangement, offering an intimate view of the empe
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Biography & Memoir
Jesus the Christ
A substantial devotional study of the life and mission of Jesus, drawing on scripture to present his ministry, teaching and significance.
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
Suetonius's gossipy, unforgettable portraits of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors, packed with scandal, omen and telling detail from the heart of imperial Rome.
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Biography & Memoir
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself
One of the first slave narratives written by a formerly enslaved African, Equiano's 1789 memoir carried a captive from West Africa across the Atlantic to freedom, print, and the fi
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Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Austin Bidwell's own account of the great Bank of England forgery and the fifteen years of imprisonment that followed.
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The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
The intimate letters of the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to her American lover Gilbert Imlay.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass's electrifying account of his life in bondage and his fight to be free.
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's classic account of his own life, from humble beginnings to fame as a printer, inventor, and statesman.
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain's rich memoir of learning the great river as a steamboat pilot, then returning years later to find both the Mississippi and America transformed.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo turns his life into a prayer, tracing a restless soul from youthful appetite to faith.
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Biography & Memoir
Charles Bradlaugh
The life of one of the most fearless reformers of his age, a champion of free thought and free speech who fought his way into public life.
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Biography & Memoir
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde's groundbreaking memoir, which she called a biomythography, weaves memory and myth to tell the story of a Black lesbian poet coming into herself in mid-century America.
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Biography & Memoir
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson's genre-crossing memoir braids queer love, pregnancy and gender transition with sharp philosophical inquiry, making a fierce, tender case for a life that refuses easy
$15.95