An edition of The assassin's cloak (2000)

The assassin's cloak

an anthology of the world's greatest diarists

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An edition of The assassin's cloak (2000)

The assassin's cloak

an anthology of the world's greatest diarists

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Excerpts from 170 diarists, arranged by month.

"A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen, (William Soutar). This remarkable anthology includes entries from more than 170 diarists, and is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive ever compiled. Ten years in the making, The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. The scope of The Assassin's Cloak is peerless and international, and appropriately it begins with Samuel Pepys, the Shakespeare of all diarists. It reaches across the centuries with several diary excerpts for every day of the year and along the way we meet cads and charmers, sailors and psychopaths, rock stars and prima ballerinas, gossips, drunks, snobs, lechers, and lovers. There is humor and tragedy, history and the humdrum, often recorded on the same day or in the same entry. The diarists are likewise diverse, including John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy, Sylvia Plath, Andy Warhol, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Anne Frank, Joseph Goebbels, Che Guevara, Dawn Powell, and Queen Victoria.--from book description, Amazon.com.

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Canongate
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Pages
698

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Cover of: Assassin's Cloak
Assassin's Cloak
2020, Canongate Books
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Cover of: Assassin's Cloak
Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists
2020, Canongate Books
in English
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The assassin's cloak: an anthology of the world's greatest diarists
2008, Canongate
in English
Cover of: The Assassin's Cloak
The Assassin's Cloak
November 11, 2003, Canongate Books Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Assassin's Cloak
Assassin's Cloak
2003, Canongate Books
in English
Cover of: The Assassin's Cloak
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists
August 30, 2002, Canongate U.S.
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Assassin's Cloak
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists
October 7, 2001, Canongate Pub.
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The assassin's cloak
The assassin's cloak: an anthology of the world's greatest diarists
2000, Canongate
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Edinburgh

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.883
Library of Congress
CT105 .A87 2008, PN4390

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 698 p. ;
Number of pages
698

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23163482M
Internet Archive
assassinscloakan0000unse_s4r6
ISBN 10
1841954594
ISBN 13
9781841954592
LCCN
2008425789
Library Thing
12934
Goodreads
759339

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