The Folio Anthology of Autobiography

This anthology presents short extracts from autobiographies rather than complete lives. Pieces run from early modern self-accounts through Victorian memoirs to later twentieth-century testimony, taking childhood, work, love, war, illness, and public office as typical subjects. Speakers include writers, soldiers, politicians, and people known for one episode they lived through. The editor arranges fragments so that unlike lives sit side by side; there is no single narrative thread. The book is a reader in first-person life writing, not a history of autobiography as a genre and not one person's memoir.

Bound in pale blue cloth, striped with green-blue. With a design in silver by Young. Pale blue endleaves. Pale blue slipcase.