Told in Joyce’s signature free indirect style and filled with allusions to Irish history and Greek mythology, this semi-autobiographical novel traces the development of his protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from a young boy into an...
Fictional autobiographies
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Author:Joyce, JamesSummary: - Author:Gilbert, SkySummary:
Brother Dumb is the memoir of a reclusive American literary icon. Brother Dumb is a how-to manual for meaningful critical engagement with the real world. Brother Dumb is a celebration of innocence, youth, and...
- Author:Moffatt-Careless, DoloresSummary:
In 2012 yet another jar was uncovered near Qumran. The jar contains a memoir written by Mary, the mother of Jesus. It becomes known as Mary’s Jar. Whereas to date the world has only had glimpses of Mary through Matthew, Luke-acts, John...
- Author:Spiner, BrentSummary:
Brent Spiner's explosive and hilarious novel is a personal look at the slightly askew relationship between a celebrity and his fans. If the Coen Brothers were to make a Star Trek movie, involving the complexity of fan obsession and...
- Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of...
- Author:Berner, GeoffSummary:
Maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette makes a final destructive bid for glory at the Calgary Folk Festival. Travel in the entertaining company of a man made of equal parts bullshit and inspiration, in what is ultimately a twisted...
- Author:Davis, Brian JosephSummary:
America lies in ruins during an age of decline, despair, and death. The year is 1975 and a radical far-left group has kidnapped a young woman from one of America's richest families. She will later join their cause and will eventually be...
- Author:Brontë, CharlotteSummary:
Jane Eyre is alone in the world, orphaned and living off the charity of reluctant relatives. Hired as a governess, she enters a society of high glamour and dark family secrets. Possibly the world’s most romantic book about child abuse,...
- Author:Svec, Henry AdamSummary:
A grossly inaccurate "memoir" about Canadian folk legends. Henry Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he unearthed songs by CFL players in Library and Archives Canada, thereby thrusting himself into...
- Author:Defoe, DanielSummary:
Moll is born in Newgate prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of whoever will take her in. From this unfavorable beginning, the lusty, resourceful Moll loves and bargains her way from rags to riches, from prostitution in...
- Author:Slansky, R. H.Summary:
Winner, 3-Day Novel Contest (2013).
Joshua Chapman Green is searching for answers. He is combing through boxes in the attic of his recently deceased mother’s home and uncovering childhood memories, mysterious letters, and...
- Author:Johnson, James WeldonSummary:
Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds. The book presents the...
- Author:Winter, Michael, DeWitt, PatrickSummary:
In 1914, the American artist Rockwell Kent escapes his bustling life in New York City for the quaint, rural town of Brigus, Newfoundland. He has been drawn north by the picturesque landscape of the Atlantic, seeking a simpler, quieter...
- Author:Sussman, PaulSummary:
My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old - or will be in ten days' time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myself... Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th...
- Author:Shields, CarolSummary:
The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood,...
- Author:Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsSummary:
Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of...
- Author:Winter, Michael, Moore, LisaSummary:
The A List edition of Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir, This All Happened depicts one man’s descent from love to fury over a calendar year. Featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore.In this journal-a-clef, we are exposed to the...
- Author:Fraser, RaymondSummary:
Through Sunlight and Shadows is an autobiographical novel about a young boy set in the small New Brunswick town of Bannonbridge in the 1940s and 1950s. The story is told from the perspective of an older man, Walt Macbride, a character...
- Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
Six months on a whaler with a cruel captain and no land in sight is too much for Tom. When the vessel cruises into the primitive Marquesas, he and his friend jump ship. They plan to hide out with a peaceful tribe, but instead, they...
- Author:Berthaud, LeibnitzSummary:
Gestionnaire de formation, originaire des Gonaïves (Haïti), Leibnitz Berthaud (Leib) s’est installé avec sa famille depuis quelques années au Canada où il a embrassé une seconde carrière dans le domaine de la traduction. Il vit dans la...
