From childhood through to adulthood - if not necessarily maturity - The Book of Life offers the literary journal of a lifetime, in the company of the most fascinating and talented figures in history.
From Alan Bennett's wartime childhood in Yorkshire to Mahatma Gandhi's experiment with cigarettes; Katherine Hepburn on her first acting job aged 21 and Primo Levi on being captured by Fascist militia at the same age; Darwin on his lifelong love - his work - and Nelson Mandela on his release from prison aged 71 ... life and living in all its manifold glories is represented.
With insights that encompass generations and continents, this is a uniquely enjoyable immersion in some of the world's best, and most personal, writing.
- ISBN10 1446460975
- ISBN13 9781446460979
- Publish Date 31 May 2011 (first published 3 November 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Imprint Ebury Digital
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 496
- Language English