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The diarists described in this book range from the well-known (Darwin, Alfred Dreyfus, C.S. Lewis) to the obscure (Elizabethan-era student John Manningham, struggling artist Benjamin Haydon, fawning sycophant George Bubb Dodington, and biologist W.N.P. Barbellion, who Mallon chooses as the author of the greatest diary ever written). Mallon's assessments are always interesting and perceptive, and, when he doesn't like a diarist, cuttingly funny. This book is a keeper; you could use it to assemble a lifetime's worth of diaries to read.
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