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Shirley
Jackson: Life Among the
Savages
[autobiography, memoir] Scholastic paperback #TK1298, first printing, September
1968 – in the author’s words this book is “a disrespectful memoir of my
children,” woven together from a series of stories that appeared in
mainstream American magazines including Good Housekeeping and
Women’s Day in the early 1950s. The “savages” of the title are
Jackson’s four children.
The story is continued in
Raising Demons.
[VG]
$5.99
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Shirley Jackson: Raising Demons [autobiography, memoir] Ballantine paperback #342K, 1959 – the continuing story of child-raising in 1950s America, a sequel to Life Among the Savages. The four “savages” are rapidly growing into “demons” as the family expands into a new suburban house, keeping their parents embroiled in one hilarious domestic crisis after another – the picture of the rich and varied day-to-day living of an unusual but not really so different American family. [G+] $4.99 | ||
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George
Orwell: Homage
to Catalonia
[memoir, history, anarchism] Beacon trade paperback, 2nd
printing, 1955 –
Orwell’s first person account of his experiences as a militia member in
the Spanish Civil War. “Practically every building of any size had been
seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and
black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer
and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties...”
[VG] $6.99 |
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George
Orwell: The Road
to Wigan Pier
[memoir, sociology, political science]
Berkley Medalion paperback, 1967 – This book was commissioned and
published in 1937 by the Left Book Club, an English anti-fascist and
pro-socialist publisher. Part I is a first-hand report of working class
conditions in the northern England coal mining region of the 1930s; Part
II is a political memoir and a sympathetic yet scathing critique of the
British socialist movement.
[VG] $9.99 |
