The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

By: Irene and Alan Taylor

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Synopsis: 'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781838852924
Related ISBNs:: 9781786899118
Publisher:: Canongate Books
Date of Addition:: 05/14/24
Copyrighted By:: Irene and Alan Taylor, 2
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Irene Taylor
Edited by:: Alan Taylor