The complete online text of Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney.

The English novelist and diarist Fanny Burney (1752-1840) was one of the most popular novelists of the late 18th century. She was also an important chronicler of English manners, morals, and society. Fanny Burney, originally named Frances, was the daught...

Frances Burney is an important British comic novelist: she is one of the first of the women writers whose names have been repeatedly alluded to in literary histories, inscribed in biographical dictionaries, and remembered by a reading public. Yet the nam...

2 Margaret Thatcher, the fastest book-signer in the business, is back with volume two of her memoirs: The Path To Power (HarperCollins pounds 25). This charts her story from humble birth in Grantham in 1925 to Oxford, marriage and politics. Thatcher makes strenuous efforts...

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, volume 2: Reformer (1945-1964), edited by Sergei Khrushchev, translated by George Shriver and Stephen Shenfield. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv, 856 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Large Sections of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs were published in...