Renowned American humorist Mark Twain turns his incisive wit loose on his own life story in this unique take on the nineteenth-century memoir. Originally composed in a format that studiously ignored the careful chronological structure that most autobiographies follow, these essays were first published in book form ten years after the author's death. Twain fans will love the author's account of his quintessentially American upbringing, wildly zig-zagging

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"Augustine's fourth-century spiritual autobiography is not only a major document in the history of Christianity and a classic of Roman Africa, it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine recounts his life, he probes the great themes that others were to explore after him - faith, time, truth, identity, and self-knowledge - with a degree of detail unmatched in ancient literature. Illustrated with vivid portraits of friends,...

John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals...

"El libro más personal, emotivo e íntimo de Fernando Savater. Esto no es una autobiografía, aunque contiene «la mejor y la peor parte» de la vida del autor. Es un libro escrito para guardar la memoria de la persona amada, Sara Torres Marrero, conocida como Pelo Cohete, con la que Fernando Savater compartió 35 años, toda una vida, de felicidad. Pero no estamos ante un elogio fúnebre porque el deseo de alargar la memoria, de engañar al olvido,...