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“George Eliot always said she didn’t want a biography, and that she wouldn’t write an autobiography. The only reason for ever having either, she said, would be if it showed an equivalent person that despite and because of all of their struggles, they could make something of themselves. Well, that’s what you can feel, particularly in the first of the three volumes of J W Cross’s work.” Read more...
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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U and I
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and assisted by Alex Haley, Laurence Fishburne (narrator)
