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- noun Plural form of
autobiography .
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Examples
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For this reason, they who would read the truest kind of biographies must turn to those written by men of themselves, -- that is, the autobiographies; and these are, in fact, found to be among the most attractive specimens of literature in our language, or any other.
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That such books are nonetheless called autobiographies remains jarring.
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An extra headache for Waterstone's recently came from usually lucrative non-fiction big name autobiographies, which "underperformed" over the Christmas period.
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An extra headache for Waterstone's recently came from usually lucrative non-fiction big name autobiographies, which "underperformed" over the Christmas period.
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An extra headache for Waterstone's recently came from usually lucrative non-fiction big name autobiographies, which "underperformed" over the Christmas period.
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An extra headache for Waterstone's recently came from usually lucrative non-fiction big name autobiographies, which "underperformed" over the Christmas period.
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His autobiographies were a massive hit in local bookshops over Christmas and the New Year.
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The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, By Himself, published in 1845, is another example I cited -- "passionate, demanding, denunciatory, self-analytical: 'autobiographies' now differed from people's 'memoirs,' as their authors challenged themselves and the world to be honest about their own lives."
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The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, By Himself, published in 1845, is another example I cited -- "passionate, demanding, denunciatory, self-analytical: 'autobiographies' now differed from people's 'memoirs,' as their authors challenged themselves and the world to be honest about their own lives."
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The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, By Himself, published in 1845, is another example I cited -- "passionate, demanding, denunciatory, self-analytical: 'autobiographies' now differed from people's 'memoirs,' as their authors challenged themselves and the world to be honest about their own lives."
bilby commented on the word autobiographies
Really useful word for cats.
February 8, 2016