Elegant, gorgeous memoirs

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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
The list author says:
  "Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov, perhaps the most elegant memoir ever written"
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Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art
2.  Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art by Anita Mathias
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  "Wandering between Two Worlds by Anita Mathias, an elegant and diverse memoir of a rebellious Indian childhood, culminating in a conversion, and entering Mother Teresa's convent as a nun."
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Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood (Vintage Classics)
3.  Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood (Vintage Classics) by Mary McCarthy
The list author says:
  "Memories of a Catholic childhood, Mary McCarthy, Creatively written, as gripping a read as the best fiction"
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The Seven Storey Mountain
4.  The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
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  "Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton. What a life! And how well told!"
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Meatless Days (Cloth)
5.  Meatless Days (Cloth) by Suleri
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  "Meatless Days, Sara Suleri, Rich highly-charged Shakespearean rhetoric"
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Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics)
6.  Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics) by Karen Blixen
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  "Out of Africa by Isak Dinesan. Her prose has that particular twist of second language writers. Both prose and book are gorgeous."
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4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

My Grandmothers and I
7.  My Grandmothers and I by Diana Holman-Hunt
The list author says:
  "My Grandmothers and I, Diana Holman-Hunt. This sprightly, totally hilarious memoir reads like a novel. Well-written, sensitive, funny and delightful."
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This Boy's Life (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)
8.  This Boy's Life (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) by Tobias Wolff
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  "This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff. A searing and artistic memoir"
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4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Surprised by Joy
9.  Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
The list author says:
  "Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis. Honest, elegant. One can be a Christian, and a rigourously honest thinker at the same time-- of course!"
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3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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My Life: A Guided Tour : the Autobiography of Kenneth N. Taylor
10.  My Life: A Guided Tour : the Autobiography of Kenneth N. Taylor by Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor
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  "My LIfe: A Guided Tour. The translator of the Living Bible, and brilliant Christian businessman's very honest memoir"
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The Confessions of St.Augustine
11.  The Confessions of St.Augustine by Saint Augustine
The list author says:
  "Confessions, St. Augustine, One of the earliest memoirs, reads as lucidly and rapidly as a detective novel"
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Praeterita (Everyman's Library Classics)
12.  Praeterita (Everyman's Library Classics) by John Ruskin
The list author says:
  "Praeterita, Weird, wild, wonderful, and TRUE. A life lived with intensity and passion. Ruskin redefines the word genius!"
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5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Frost In May (Virago Modern Classics)
13.  Frost In May (Virago Modern Classics) by Antonia White
The list author says:
  "Frost in May, Antonia White. Another novel which reads like a memoir, and prob. is autobiographical. Beautifully written."
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
14.  Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman
The list author says:
  "Out of Eygypt, Andre Aciman. Aciman's startling arresting style makes this story memorable"
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ALL THE STRANGE HOURS
15.  ALL THE STRANGE HOURS by Loren Eiseley
The list author says:
  "All the Strange Hours, An Excation of a Life, Loren Eisely. A fascinating, unusual, elegaic mournful and beautiful memoir. One of my favs."
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Baker Russell : Good Times (Plume)
16.  Baker Russell : Good Times (Plume) by Russell Baker
The list author says:
  "The Good Tinmes, Russell Baker. A memorable account of tortuous family relationships, as well as the American dream fleshed our and fully realized."
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Messages from My Father
17.  Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin
The list author says:
  "Messages from my Father, Calvin Trillin. His elegant lucid style gives another version of a Jewish boy acheiving the American dream--or a writerly version of it."
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4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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A Walker in the City
18.  A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin
The list author says:
  "Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin. A sensuous, detailed packed memoir of the achievement of literary ambition by a Jewish boy from Brooklyn."
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Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography
19.  Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
The list author says:
  "Autobiography. Janet Frame. Searingly honest, with no masks, and rising to poetry in not infrequent patches. The life of a woman whose writing was her only joy and salvation."
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Cab at the Door: AND Midnight Oil (Modern Library)
20.  Cab at the Door: AND Midnight Oil (Modern Library) by V. S. Pritchett
The list author says:
  "A very vivid and memorable memoir. He describes the marriage of his self-indulgent, bigamist father, who had a secret mistress & 2nd fly & long-suffering mother, as the marriage of the rich and poor."
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Father and Son (Oxford World's Classics)
21.  Father and Son (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Gosse
The list author says:
  "Father and Son, Edmund Gosse. The father's scientist head thrilled at Darwin, but he followed his heart, and refuted him, to his loyal, loving artist son's disappointment"
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An Autobiography:  The Story of My Experiments with Truth
22.  An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
The list author says:
  "The Story of my Experiments with Truth. An honest life of a sensitive, iron-willed, gentle lovely soul. A brilliant person and a non-Christian "Christian" anima naturalatis Christianitas."
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An American Childhood (Picador Books)
23.  An American Childhood (Picador Books) by Annie Dillard
The list author says:
  "An American Childhood. Annie Dillard. I love this book. Simple structure. A rich life lived in books, unpretentiously described."
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Romantic Education
24.  Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl
The list author says:
  "A Romantic Education, Patricia Hampl. Her gift of describing the ordinary makes you want to write. A book one must pay homage too."
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Road From Coorain
25.  Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
The list author says:
  "The Road from Coorain, An account of a flinty determination to reinvent oneself. An account of ambition satisfied"
£8.09   Used & New from: £0.01
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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