Memoirs

After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace , Sofia Behrs kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many...
By: Sofia Tolstoy

A brilliant student with a promising career ahead of him as a biologist under the guidance of Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod, Michel Benoît decided at the age of twenty­-two to follow the path of God and take on monastic orders as Brother Irénée....
By: Michel Benoît

Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age, and author of the scientific bestseller A Brief History of Time , which sold over 25 million copies across the world. In this compelling memoir, his first wife...
By: Jane Hawking