Memoirs & Journals

Translated by Jamey Gambrell A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsv...

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to ...

Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most i...

translated by Alex Andriesse Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration ...

The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from th...

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the res...

translated by Richard Lourie In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the m...

In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fictio...

Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chi...

translated by Jean Stoner A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and...

translated by Peter Zombory-Moldovan The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in ...

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed g...

translated by Peter Bush Josep Pla's masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, w...

translated by John Sturrock The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and th...

Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work--one that transforms our...