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HASTEN to protest at the outset that I have no personal knowledge of the incorrigible Super-tramp who wrote this amazing book. If he is to be encouraged and approved, then British morality is a mockery, British respectability an imposture, and British industry a vice. Perhaps they are: I have always kept an open mind on the subject; but still one may ask some better ground for pitching them out of window than the caprice of a tramp.I hope these expressions will not excite unreasonable expectations of a thrilling realistic romance, or a scandalous chronicle, to follow. Mr. Davies' autobiography is not a bit sensational: it might be the Post Office Directory for the matter of that. A less simple minded supertramp would not have thought it worth writing at all; for it mentions nothing that might not have happened to any of us. As to scandal, I, though a most respectable author, have never written half so proper a book. These pudent pages are unstained with the frightful language, the debased dialect, of the fictitious proletarians of Mr. Rudyard Kipling and other genteel writers. In them the patrons of the casual ward and the dosshouse argue with the decorum of Socrates, and narrate in the style of Tacitus. They have that pleasant combination of childish freshness with scrupulous literary conscientiousness only possible to people for whom speech, spoken or written, but especially written, is still a feat to be admired and shewn off for its own sake. Not for the life of me could I capture that boyish charm and combine it with the savoir vivre of an experienced man of the world, much less of an experienced tramp. The innocence of the author's manner and the perfection of his delicacy is such, that you might read his book aloud in an almshouse without shocking the squeamishness of old age. As for the young, nothing shocks the young. The immorality of the matter is stupendous; but it is purely an industrial immorality. As to the sort of immorality that is most dreaded by schoolmistresses and duennas, there is not a word in the book to suggest that tramps know even what it means. On the contrary, I can quite believe that the author would die of shame if he were asked to write such books as Adam Bede or David Copperfield.

Written by Paramahansa Yogananda, 'Autobiography of a Yogi' is one of the most popular spiritual book of the Twentieth Century. In this book he explained memorable findings of the world of saints and yogis and also explained science and miracles, death and resurgence. It is a spiritual treasury that will make you understand the meaning of life.Yogananda brought yoga to the West, spending nearly three decades teaching yoga and meditation. The book gives a compelling insight into the spiritual leader as he takes us on his journey from his early childhood in Gorakhpur to California in the 1940s.This spiritual autobiography will take you on an incredible journey of Indian mysticism and spirituality and deliver humbling, comforting truths about life and existence.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Paramahansa Yogananda was born in as Mukunda Lal Ghosh. He was an Indian yogi and guru.Some of the books written by him are Karma and Reincarnation, How To Have Courage, Calmness and Confidence: The Wisdom Of Yogananda 1st Edition, The Bhagavad Gita 1st Edition and Whispers From Eternity 1st Edition.At the age of 17, in the year 1910, he found his guru Swami Yukteswar Giri. Yogananda graduated with a B.A. from the Serampore College and in 1915 took vows to join the Swami Order. Here, he was given the name Swami Yogananda Giri. The Yogi established the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in Ranchi. In 1920, he was sent to Boston to attend the International Congress of Religious Liberals. He lived in America for the next thirty years (1920-1952) and taught the soul-awakening techniques of Kriya Yoga to many people. Yogananda visited India in 1935, where he was given the monastic title of Paramahansa, which represents the highest spiritual attainment. The Yogi passed away in 1952 and his funeral service was attended by with hundreds of people in Los Angeles. On his twenty-fifth death anniversary, the Indian government issued a special commemorative stamp in his honour.

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography. Twain never compiled these writings and dictations into a publishable form in his lifetime. Despite indications from Twain that he did not want his autobiography to be published for a century, he serialised some Chapters from My Autobiography during his lifetime and various compilations were published during the 20th century.[1] However it was not until 2010, in the 100th anniversary year of Twain's death, that the first volume of a comprehensive collection, compiled and edited by The Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, was published.Twain first started to compose an autobiography in 1870, but proceeded fitfully, abandoning the work and returning to it as the mood took him, amassing around 30–40 of these "false starts" over the next 35 years.The bulk of the autobiography was dictated rather than written directly—this was described by a 2010 reviewer as "[having] a secretary follow him around and take down his every passing thought".[1] In a 1904 letter to William Dean Howells, he wrote: "I’ve struck it! And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography."[2] These dictations were made frequently in 1906 and 1907. Twain then seems to have let the book languish; in 1908–9 he hardly added to it at all, and he declared the project concluded in 1909, after the death of his youngest daughter Jean. His innovative notion—to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"—meant that his thoughts could range freely. Twain thought his autobiography would be most entertaining if he went off on whims and tangents in non-sequential order.[3]

This book was published in 1921.Book excerpt:I never steal anything except to eat it; I never kill anything merely to amuse myself, and a coyote never slanders its neighbor that was left solely for man and his mate to do. Before I begin my biography I want to write that the name "coy-ote" is of Spanish origin and should be pronounced in three syllables, with the accent on the middle one. There is nothing so irritating to the nerves of a coyote as to be called a "ky-oat," though it is permissible to say it that way, that is, in the dic- tionary which is the school standard of California. Nevertheless, with greatest respect for the memory of Mr. Noah Webster I will state, entirely "on my own," that he was not at all conversant with the beautiful Spanish language or he would never have made it permissible to say "ky-oat."

Pickles entertains you through his life with t stories about his kittenhood, adoption, his new home, his siblings, his trips to Florida and Maine, his vacations to Maine, his trips to the vet, his Christmas, a “lecture” on “what humans should know” and more .Pickles admits it is true that he doesn't know all those words written in the book, but that he was able to tell his mom these stories through animal communication, which both he and his mom explain throughout the book. It The autobiography is real, humorous and a special book for cat lovers. You will recognize your own cat, learn more about other cats i, and laugh at his descriptions.You will also learn about animal communication. Even if you are not a cat lover, you will enjoy the book with or without experience with pets.