Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV
Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV

Author: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-07

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780226473208

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The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a self-obsessed courtier and chronicler of court life under Louis XIV. Drawing heavily on his memoirs, historian Ladurie offers a wonderful portrait of life with Louis, focusing on issues of hierarchy and rank in this tightly controlled universe. Illustrations.

Memoirs
Memoirs

Author: Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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Translated from the French.

Neil Simon's Memoirs
Neil Simon's Memoirs

Author: Neil Simon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 1501155008

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"Now, for the first time ever, Simon's complete life story is collected in one volume with a new introduction and afterword"--Dust jacket.

Wait Till Next Year
Wait Till Next Year

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-11-24

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1439188580

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By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great

Author: Catherine the Great

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0307432432

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Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a prolific and gifted writer. Fluent in French, Russian, and German, Catherine published political theory, journalism, comedies, operas, and history, while writing thousands of letters as she corresponded with Voltaire and other public figures. The Memoirs of Catherine the Great provides an unparalleled window into eighteenth-century Russia and the mind of an absolute ruler. With insight, humor, and candor, Catherine presents her eyewitness account of history, from her whirlwind entry into the Russian court in 1744 at age fourteen as the intended bride of Empress Elizabeth I’s nephew, the eccentric drunkard and future Peter III, to her unhappy marriage; from her two children, several miscarriages, and her and Peter’s numerous affairs to the political maneuvering that enabled Catherine to seize the throne from him in 1762. Catherine’s eye for telling details makes for compelling reading as she describes the dramatic fall and rise of her political fortunes. This definitive new translation from the French is scrupulously faithful to her words and is the first for which translators have consulted original manuscripts written in Catherine’s own hand. It is an indispensable work for anyone interested in Catherine the Great, Russian history, or the eighteenth century.