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Title	Author	Description
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.
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
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
The Journal 1837-1861 Journal 1837-1861	Henry David Thoreau Thoreau	To understand Thoreau, one must read his journals—but until now they have never been available in a one-volume reader's edition that draws on the entirety of his 14-volume journal. Here at last is the essence of the great naturalist's thoughts, accumulated over the span of a life time Contributors: Damion Searls , John R. Stilgoe
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
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait Flaubert and Madame Bovary	Francis Steegmuller Steegmuller	A work of scholarship, a profound contribution to literary criticism, Flaubert and Madame Bovary is a biographical study executed with all the precision and vision of a great novel. Contributors: Victor Brombert
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Memoirs of My Nervous Illness	Daniel Paul Schreber Schreber	The wonderful Schreber . . . ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital. — Sigmund Freud Contributors: Rosemary Dinnage
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
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography Snows of Yesteryear	Gregor von Rezzori Rezzori	The author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite tells his own story through portraits of the members of his childhood household. "An elegiac tribute to a receding past and a testament to the redemptive powers of memory—a family photography album, beautifully translated into words.—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review Contributors: John Banville , H. F. Broch De Rothermann
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