| DATE_______ |
AUTHOR__________________________ |
TITLE_______________________________________________________________ |
| 370 B.C. |
Xenophon |
Anabasis, or The Retreat of the Ten Thousand |
| 50 B.C. |
Julius Caesar |
Commentaries on the Gallic War
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| 1640 |
Alonso de Contreras |
Memoirs of Captain Alonso de Contreras |
| 1722 |
Daniel Defoe |
A Journal of the Plague Year 1665 in London |
| 1846 |
Herman Melville |
Typee – a fascinating account of life in a South Sea island before the spread of Western civilization |
| 1854 |
Henry Thoreau |
Walden – an ecological manifesto |
| 1873 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Memories From the House of the Dead |
| 1879 |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes |
| 1903 |
Jack London |
The People of the Abyss – Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End |
| 1907 |
Jack London |
The Road - Jack London’s vivid account of his hobo days |
| 1913 |
Martin Johnson |
Through the South Seas with Jack London
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| 1921 |
Maxim Gorky, Aleksandr Kuprin and Ivan Bunin |
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov |
| 1933 |
George Orwell |
Down and Out in Paris and London |
| 1938 |
George Orwell |
Homage to Catalonia |
| 1941 |
Jan Valtin |
Out of the Night – an extraordinary memoir of life in the international Communist movement between the two World Wars
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| 1944-45 |
Jan Valtin |
Children of Yesterday – Jan Valtin’s dramatic eyewitness account of the Pacific War in the Philippines 1944-45
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