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Prison Life Writing

Simon Rolston

History And Criticism Biography Prisoners In Literature

Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system.

Misery
4.1 104 votes
Confessions of an economic hit man
3.4 15 votes
The Glass Menagerie
4.1 33 votes
I'm Glad My Mom Died
4.3 63 votes
On Writing Well
3.8 18 votes
Dubliners
3.8 73 votes
New Moon (The Twilight Saga Book 2)
4.1 59 votes
Quiet
4.1 80 votes
Bridget Jones's Diary
3.6 43 votes
Slaughterhouse-Five
4.2 234 votes
Howl, and Other Poems
3.9 23 votes
Assata
4.4 17 votes
The Last Battle
3.8 65 votes
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
3.4 67 votes
The Arabian Mistress / The Contaxis Baby
3.8 18 votes
Stoner
4.3 35 votes
Martin Eden
3.8 41 votes
Danse Macabre
3.9 112 votes
Frog and Toad Together
4.1 31 votes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
4.0 172 votes
The Prince
3.8 81 votes
The Lottery
3.7 23 votes
Fahrenheit 451
4.0 375 votes
The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
4.3 20 votes
Becoming
4.6 19 votes
No Logo
3.4 19 votes
The Client
3.7 21 votes
Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
3.7 15 votes
Beach Read
3.5 15 votes
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
4.2 30 votes
Naked Lunch
3.7 19 votes
The Iliad of Homer
4.0 69 votes
The Shining
4.2 240 votes
The Chronicles of Narnia
4.2 66 votes
The Horse and His Boy
3.9 66 votes
Monster
3.9 18 votes
The Things They Carried
4.3 34 votes
Crime and Punishment
4.2 94 votes
The blue castle
3.6 17 votes
Harriet the Spy
4.5 15 votes
The Complete Robot
4.5 20 votes
The Love Hypothesis
4.1 192 votes
Kane & Abel
4.2 28 votes
A Study in Scarlet
3.9 82 votes
South of the Border, West of the Sun
3.5 20 votes
Trigger Warning
4.0 15 votes
Duma Key
4.0 45 votes
The Innovators
3.9 18 votes