The Private Life of the Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Private Life of the Diary write by Sally Bayley. This book was released on 2016-04-21. The Private Life of the Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure. The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets is an elegantly-told story of the evolution – and perhaps death – of the diary. It traces its origins to seventeenth-century naval administrator, Samuel Pepys, and continues to twentieth-century diarist Virginia Woolf, who recorded everything from her personal confessions about her irritation with her servants to her memories of Armistice Day and the solar eclipse of 1927. Sally Bayley explores how diaries can sometimes record our lives as we live them, but that we often indulge our fondness for self-dramatization, like the teenaged Sylvia Plath who proclaimed herself 'The Girl Who Would be God'. This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?
Nicole Brown Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nicole Brown Simpson write by Faye D. Resnick. This book was released on 1994. Nicole Brown Simpson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intimate account of Nicole Brown Simpson's marriage, her husband's abuse, and events leading up to her death, as told by her best friend.
The Private Life of Adam and Eve
The Private Life of Adam and Eve - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Private Life of Adam and Eve write by Mark Twain. This book was released on 1906. The Private Life of Adam and Eve available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "By giving a voice to Adam and Eve and hitting all the notes on the literary scale -- from the intimate to the comical, from the journalistic to the idyllic -- this classic volume displays the brilliance and wit for which Mark Twain is rightly considered one of the greatest satirists of all time"--Publisher statement
A Diary of Private Prayer
A Diary of Private Prayer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Diary of Private Prayer write by John Baillie. This book was released on 2014-10-07. A Diary of Private Prayer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic collection of personal prayers updated in modern, accessible language.
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
The Private Life of Chairman Mao - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Private Life of Chairman Mao write by Li Zhi-Sui. This book was released on 2011-06-22. The Private Life of Chairman Mao available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly intimate—contact with Mao and his inner circle. in The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience at the center of Mao's decadent imperial court. Dr. Li clarifies numerous long-standing puzzles, such as the true nature of Mao's feelings toward the United States and the Soviet Union. He describes Mao's deliberate rudeness toward Khrushchev and reveals the actual catalyst of Nixon's historic visit. Here are also surprising details of Mao's personal depravity (we see him dependent on barbiturates and refusing to wash, dress, or brush his teeth) and the sexual politics of his court. To millions of Chinese, Mao was more god than man, but for Dr. Li, he was all too human. Dr. Li's intimate account of this lecherous, paranoid tyrant, callously indifferent to the suffering of his people, will forever alter our view of Chairman Mao and of China under his rule. Praise for The Private Life of Chairman Mao “From now one no one will be able to pretend to understand Chairman Mao's place in history without reference to this revealing account.”—Professor Lucian Pye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Dr. Li does for Mao what the physician Lord Moran's memoir did for Winston Churchill—turns him into a human being. Here is Mao unveiled: eccentric, demanding, suspicious, unregretful, lascivious, and unfailingly fascinating. Our view of Mao will never be the same again.”—Ross Terrill, author of China in Our Time “An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Mao. [Dr. Li] portrays [Mao's imperial court] as a place of boundless decadence, licentiousness, selfishness, relentless toadying and cutthroat political intrigue.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “One of the most provocative books on Mao to appear since the publication of Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China.”—Paul G. Pickowicz, The Wall Street Journal
