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David Copperfield David Copperfield Charles Dickens David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke… OL10322056W
Kensington gardens Kensington gardens Rodrigo Fresán "A children's writer unreels a shocking confession in Rodrigo Fresan's English-language debut. Known to millions by his pen name, Peter Hook, Fresan's hero has survived the death of his rock-star par… OL11640666W
The jardin des plantes The jardin des plantes Claude Simon "While Simon admits that there are defining moments in life - eight days of battle during World War II were Simon's unforgettable experience - The Jardin des Plantes rings with his refusal to be defi… OL1387937W
Le Vin de solitude Le Vin de solitude Irène Némirovsky Introspective, intense and poignant, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical of all Irène Némirovsky's novels, now available in English for the first time. Imbued with melancholy, and regre… OL16592392W
A Scarcity of Love A Scarcity of Love Anna Kavan The author of this extraordinary novel was a heroin addict who died by her own hand in December of 1968 [Note: this is not proven - J.H.]. Out of her terrifying experience with mental illness she cre… OL1740045W
Novels 2001-2007 (Dying Animal / Exit Ghost / Plot Against America) Novels 2001-2007 (Dying Animal / Exit Ghost / Plot Against America) Philip A. Roth Contains: - Dying Animal - Exit Ghost - [Plot Against America](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74664W) OL17478841W
Ernest Hemingway / Knut Hamsun / Hermann Hesse Ernest Hemingway / Knut Hamsun / Hermann Hesse Ernest Hemingway,Knut Hamsun,Hermann Hesse Ernest Hemingway: Presentation addresses Acceptance speech A clean, well-lighted place The old man and the sea (excerpt) The sun also rises (excerpt) A farewell to arms (excerpt) The l… OL17970062W
How to write an autobiographical novel How to write an autobiographical novel Alexander Chee From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art. OL19738261W
Posledniĭ kaban iz lesov Pontevedra Posledniĭ kaban iz lesov Pontevedra Dina Rubina 286 pages ; 21 cm OL19738734W
Hyena Hyena Jude Angelini "Hyena is a collection of autobiographical stories by Jude Angelini, which takes the reader on his journey of heartbreak, depravity, and hilarity, deftly moving between his adult life and his childho… OL19988068W
The girl who wrote loneliness The girl who wrote loneliness Kyŏng-suk Sin Taking a sweatshop job in Seoul to support her family, a teenaged girl endures a life of extreme exploitation that contributes to Korea's economic rise in the 1970s. OL20008036W
The way of all flesh The way of all flesh Samuel Butler I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the mi… OL22372W
Agnes Grey Agnes Grey Anne Brontë In her Introduction to an edition of "Agnes Grey," Barbara A. Suess writes "Bronte provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish mone… OL2462427W
El rey palido El rey palido David Foster Wallace Al recién llegado David F. Wallace los agentes del Centro Regional de Examen de la Agencia Tributaria de Peoria, Illinois, le parecen de lo más normal. A medida que se adentra en la tediosa y repetit… OL27703141W
The Conquest The Conquest Jayna J. Brown,Oscar Micheaux ***The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer***, portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen child… OL3462389W
Rooms with a view Rooms with a view Giancarlo Lombardi "The ideal coexistence of the internal and external world, that of the emotions and that of politics, lies at the core of most feminist fictional diaries. This analysis of fictional journals aims at … OL6211864W
The Plot Against America The Plot Against America Philip A. Roth The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh… OL74664W
Maitreyi Maitreyi Mircea Eliade A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters b… OL748596W
Sons and Lovers Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence <p><i>Sons and Lovers</i>, a story of working-class England, is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence"><abbr>D. H.</abbr> Lawrence’s</a> third novel. It went through various drafts,… OL81295W
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer Ridley Pearson At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could co… OL8571461W
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