DailyLit: Memoir Books

Strange Things Happen

A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies
by Stewart Copeland

Strange Things Happen has been made available for free to DailyLit readers by its publisher, HarperStudio. ... When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on “leathe ...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

AN AMERICAN SLAVE. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having s ...

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Book Sampler: Modern Memoirs

by DailyLit

It’s a mad world we live in, not least because each of us has a perfectly original story to tell. This Modern Memoirs Sampler brings that range of experience to live. From the Opium Season’s Afgha ...

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

by Thomas de Quincey

This autobiographical tale of the author’s addiction to laudanum—a combination of opium and alcohol—was an instant hit when it was published in 1821, making author Thomas de Quincey famous. The ...

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The Soul of the Rhino

A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists and the Indian Rhino
by Hemanta R. Mishra

In early 2006, National Public Radio reported that "A promising conservation effort to save one of Nepal's signature endangered species is now in serious trouble, due primarily to poachers taking ...

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