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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.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2011
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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."
Nigel Hamilton: Bush and Memoirs Nigel Hamilton 2010
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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."
Nigel Hamilton: Bush and Memoirs Nigel Hamilton 2010
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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."
Nigel Hamilton: Bush and Memoirs Nigel Hamilton 2010
bilby commented on the word autobiographies
Really useful word for cats.
February 8, 2016