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Hardcover:
9781403971562 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 7, 2006), cover price $80.00
9780312122430 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1995, cover price $45.00
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Hardcover:
9781604592429, titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African: Written by Himself" | Wilder Pubns Ltd, January 30, 2008, cover price $27.99
Paperback:
9781497592834, titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself." | Createspace Independent Pub, April 9, 2014, cover price $9.99
9781495342479, titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself" | Createspace Independent Pub, January 27, 2014, cover price $11.75
9781482049619, titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself" | Createspace Independent Pub, January 22, 2013, cover price $11.95
9781479319671, titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself" | Createspace Independent Pub, September 15, 2012, cover price $19.95
9781438510569, titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African Written by Himself" | Book Jungle, February 28, 2009, cover price $14.95
2 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the only disadvantage under which they labour: it is also their misfortune, that what is uncommon is rarely, if ever, believed, and what is obvious we are apt to turn from with disgust, and to charge the writer with impertinence. People generally think those memoirs only worthy to be read or remembered which abound in great or striking events, those, in short, which in a high degree excite either admiration or pity: all others they consign to contempt and oblivion. It is therefore, I confess, not a little hazardous in a private and obscure individual, and a stranger too, thus to solicit the indulgent attention of the public; especially when I own I offer here the history of neither a saint, a hero, nor a tyrant. I believe there are few events in my life, which have not happened to many: it is true the incidents of it are numerous; and, did I consider myself an European, I might say my sufferings were great: but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favourite of Heaven, and acknowledge the mercies of Providence in every occurrence of my life. If then the following narrative does not appear sufficiently interesting to engage general attention, let my motive be some excuse for its publication. Text from Chapter 1
Paperback:
9781508401889 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 7, 2015, cover price $9.00
9781495309489 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 24, 2014, cover price $10.99
9781494865696 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2014, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the only disadvantage under which they labour: it is also their misfortune, that what is uncommon is rarely, if ever, believed, and what is obvious we are apt to turn from with disgust, and to charge the writer with impertinence.
9781603810197 | Coffeetown Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $17.95
9781603810258 | Coffeetown Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $15.95
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Product Description: This compelling book chronicles a young boyâs journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of Londonâs literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis Barber, born in Jamaica, was brought to London by his owner in 1750 and became a servant in the household of the renowned Dr...read more
Hardcover:
9780300207101 | Yale Univ Pr, March 31, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This compelling book chronicles a young boyâs journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of Londonâs literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life.
Hardcover:
9780679856191 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1994, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean
Paperback:
9780375803468 | Yearling Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean
Miscellaneous:
9780307770226 | Yearling Books, January 12, 2011, cover price $5.99
Library:
9780679956198 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean
Reinforced:
9780606182379 | Demco Media, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean
Paperback:
9781592216642 | Gardners Books, March 5, 2009, cover price $37.80
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9781592216659 | Africa World Pr, October 31, 2008, cover price $34.95
Product Description: Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom. His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time...read more
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9781439518687 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.
Hardcover:
9780820325712, titled "Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man" | Univ of Georgia Pr, October 24, 2005, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of the former slave who was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent in the 1700s and is considered the founding father of both the African and the African American literary traditions.
Paperback:
9780143038429 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 30, 2007), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of the former slave who was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent in the 1700s and is considered the founding father of both the African and the African American literary traditions.
Paperback:
9780375761157 | Modern Library, May 1, 2004, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean.
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9780142437162 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, June 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean.
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Paperback:
9781551112626 | Broadview Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $14.95
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Paperback:
9780393974942 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2000), cover price $22.05
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