Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

Boy

by Roald Dahl

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is full of all sorts of boring details.

On Writing

by Stephen King

Going Solo

by Roald Dahl

Far away and long ago

by W. H. Hudson

IT was never my intention to write an autobiography.

Fate Is the Hunter

by Ernest K. Gann

IN THE beginning many of us were scientific barbarians.

The mirror of the sea

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

American Film

by American Film Institute

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson

A literature of their own

by Elaine Showalter

The advent of female literature promises woman's view of life, woman's experience: in other words, a new element.

Come, tell me how you live

by Agatha Christie

An Autobiography

by Agatha Christie

A Writer's Diary

by Virginia Woolf

While waiting to buy a book in which to record my impressions first of Christina Rossetti, then of Byron, I had better w...

A personal record

by Joseph Conrad

Books may be written in all sorts of places.

Tolkien

by Humphrey Carpenter, Pierre Alien

It is mid-morning on a spring day in 1967.

Moments of being

by Virginia Woolf

This collection of autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolf brings together unpublished material selected from the Wo...

My father's house

by Sylvia Fraser

Virginia Woolf

by Quentin Bell