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Title	Author	Description
Letters from Russia Letters from Russia	Astolphe de Custine Custine	The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. Contributors: Anka Muhlstein
Miserable Miracle Miserable Miracle	Henri Michaux Michaux	In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. Contributors: Octavio Paz , Louise Varèse
An African in Greenland African in Greenland	Tete-Michel Kpomassie Kpomassie	"Kpomassie is indisputably a man of extraordinary charm; he is also sharp and perceptive and honest?unencumbered by a sense of obligation to his hosts that might have prevented him from telling us what they are really like."— Katherine Bouton, The Nation Contributors: Al Alvarez , James Kirkup
Renoir, My Father Renoir, My Father	Jean Renoir Renoir	In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Contributors: Robert L. Herbert , Randolph and Dorothy Weaver
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Autobiography of an Unknown Indian	Nirad C. Chaudhuri Chaudhuri	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Contributors: Ian Jack
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account Reading and Writing	V.S. Naipaul Naipaul	In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer.
Madame de Pompadour Madame de Pompadour	Nancy Mitford Mitford	Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. Contributors: Amanda Foreman
The Quest for Corvo Quest for Corvo	A.J.A. Symons Symons	The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. Contributors: A.S. Byatt
Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte Memoirs	Lorenzo Da Ponte Ponte	"I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte Contributors: Elisabeth Abbott
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author	Edward John Trelawny Trelawny	In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. Contributors: Anne Barton