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A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
A Book of One's Own People and Their Diaries Author:Thomas Mallon This book is about people and the diaries they keep. Consisting of writers, dancers, madmen, statesmen, lovers, assassins, philosophers, housewives, soldiers, and children. Some are chroniclers of the everyday. Some have used their books to record journeys; plan the art of the future; confess the sins of the flesh; lecture the world from beyond ... more »the grave. And some of them, prisoners and invalids, have used them not so much to record lives as create them, their diaries being the only world in which they could fully live.« less