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Title	Author	Description
Hons and Rebels Hons and Rebels	Jessica Mitford Mitford	In Hons and Rebels Jessica Mitford tells about her upbringing, which, she drily remarks, "even for England, in those far-off days of the middle twenties...was not exactly conventional...." Contributors: Christopher Hitchens
The World I Live In World I Live In	Helen Keller Keller	The World I Live In is a thought-provoking and deeply moving account of Helen Keller's keenest impressions and deepest feelings —as well as a rediscovered classic of American writing. Contributors: Roger Shattuck
My Century My Century	Aleksander Wat Wat	The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century. Contributors: Czesław Miłosz , Richard Lourie
Monsieur Proust Monsieur Proust	Céleste Albaret Albaret	This lovely book is as close as we can come to meeting Proust in person. Contributors: André Aciman , Barbara Bray
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Black Sun	Geoffrey Wolff Wolff	Black Sun is master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's picture of a brilliant and self-destructive man who sought to make his life into a work of art.
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China Peking Story	David Kidd Kidd	"Kidd's pieces are simple, graceful, comic, mournful miniatures of an ominous catastrophe, the unprecedently swift death of a uniquely ancient civilization." —John Updike
Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa Twenty Days	Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthrone	This true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life—then and now. Contributors: Paul Auster
Shelley: The Pursuit Shelley	Richard Holmes Holmes	Here we have the real Shelley at last—radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator.
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship Walter Benjamin	Gershom Scholem Scholem	Gershom Scholem was a precocious teenager when he became Walter Benjamin's close friend. His account of that relationship is at once a tribute to his friend's genius and a lament for his personal and, as Scholem sees it, intellectual self-destructiveness. Contributors: Lee Siegel , Harry Zohn
Prisoner of Love Prisoner of Love	Jean Genet Genet	Genet's final masterpiece, written and rewritten on his deathbed, is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world. Contributors: Ahdaf Soueif , Barbara Bray