memoir
/ˈmɛmˌwɑɹ/ sustantivo C1En español: memoria
- An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author. · When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs.
- A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject. · James wrote a memoir of his grandmother shortly after she passed away.
- Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.
Plural memoirs
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He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
Your memoirs will draw to an end, Watson, upon the day that I crown my career by the capture or extinction of the most dangerous and capable criminal in Europe.”
His magnificent memoir, “Life on the Mississippi,” stands as a beautifully poignant elegy to this ephemeral golden age of steamboat navigation.
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