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9781886913028
Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon places journal writers in history, fleshing them out with both background and witty anecdote.Mallon, Thomas is the author of 'A Book of One's Own', published 1995 under ISBN 9781886913028 and ISBN 1886913021.
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