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Title	Author	Description
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My Father and Myself My Father and Myself	J. R. Ackerley Ackerley	Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. Contributors: W.H. Auden
Pages from the Goncourt Journals Pages from the Goncourt Journals	Edmond and Jules de Goncourt Goncourt	No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt. Contributors: Geoff Dyer , Robert Baldick