All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography: The Red Leaves of a Human Heart
Автор:Amelia E. Barr Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 386 ISBN: 1475210884 This is to be a book about myself but, even before I begin it, I am painfully aware of the egotistical atmosphere which the unavoidable use of the personal pronouns creates. I have hitherto declared that I would not write an autobiography, but a consideration of circumstances convinces me that an autobiography is the only form any personal relation can now take. For the press has so widely and so frequently exploited certain events of my lifea??impossible to omita??that disguise is far out of the question. Fiction could not hide me, nor an assumed name, nor even no name at all. Why, then, write the book? First, because serious errors have constantly been published, and these I wish to correct; second, there has been a long-continued request for it, and third, there are business considerations not to be neglected. Yet none, nor all of these three reasons, would have been sufficient to induce me to truck my most sacred memories through the market-place for a little money, had I not...
