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Title	Author	Description
Hindoo Holiday Hindoo Holiday	J. R. Ackerley Ackerley	Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature. Contributors: Eliot Weinberger
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
Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg Moura	Nina Berberova Berberova	In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction. Contributors: Marian Schwartz, Richard D. Sylvester
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist	Alexander Berkman Berkman	No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals. Contributors: John William Ward
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
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
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese Mani	Patrick Leigh Fermor Fermor	Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him on his journeys amongst the peoples of the southernmost parts of Greece, exploring their history and time-honored lore. Contributors: Michael Gorra
Roumeli: Travels In Northern Greece Roumeli	Patrick Leigh Fermor Fermor	Travel writing's very own "cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene" explores northern Greece. Contributors: Patricia Storace
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
Memoirs of Montparnasse Memoirs of Montparnasse	John Glassco Glassco	1927. Finding college life "depressing...to a point where [he] could not go on" John "Buffy" Glassco decamped for Paris. Forty years later, he reconstructed this memoir à clef of his rollicking youth among the haute bohemians of the day, including Hemingway, Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Kay Boyle. Contributors: Louis Begley