About the Book: 100 Diaries That Chronicled World Events
A compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching
diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil. Including the
historical journals of Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank; snapshots of art and culture
in the diaries of Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain; and windows into the past from
Queen Victoria and John Adams.
Oscar Wilde once wrote: "I never travel without my diary. One should always
have something sensational to read on the train."
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events introduces us to the worlds greatest
diarists, whose published journals offer a