I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, Vol. 1

The thousands of pages 25-year-old Marie Bashkirtseff left behind upon her death from tuberculosis in 1884 were so frank in their depiction of her family's scandalous history and so radical in their complaints about women's confined sphere that her mother censored the diaries heavily before they were published in 1887. The first volume of this new translation, covering the years 1873-1876, does full justice to Bashkirtseff's vibrant, intimate account of aristocratic émigré's roaming across Europe and to the operatic emotions of Marie and her quarrelsome relatives.