A Book of One's Own: People and Their DiariesTicknor & Fields, 1984 - 318 pages Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon places journal writers in history, fleshing them out with both background and witty anecdote. |
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Page 9
... reader's sympathies through all the years she spends in the diary . But from the standpoint of reader interest , it must be admitted that her passing in 1717 is something of a blessed event : " God is teaching me a new Lesson : to live ...
... reader's sympathies through all the years she spends in the diary . But from the standpoint of reader interest , it must be admitted that her passing in 1717 is something of a blessed event : " God is teaching me a new Lesson : to live ...
Page 81
... reader ( “ The sun has suddenly come out and there is a bright blue sky — all this happened while I wrote a few words ! " ) even as it allows us to see things unfold over time : her relations with flowers , a parrot , cats . When near ...
... reader ( “ The sun has suddenly come out and there is a bright blue sky — all this happened while I wrote a few words ! " ) even as it allows us to see things unfold over time : her relations with flowers , a parrot , cats . When near ...
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... reader of diaries . When it comes to means and ends , there are those older architects who claim that in recent years their profession has taken a crazily Platonic turn by honoring architects for buildings they manage to conceive but ...
... reader of diaries . When it comes to means and ends , there are those older architects who claim that in recent years their profession has taken a crazily Platonic turn by honoring architects for buildings they manage to conceive but ...
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