For my law and literature class I would like to use an autobiography of a lawyer, judge, or other prominent legal figure. The standards are the following: 1) It must be well written and broadly literary, 2) It cannot be longer than four or five hundred pages, 3)It must be at least moderately entertaining to read, and 4)It should somehow be insightful about the law. I also would prefer something with a slightly philosophical tinge, though we need not go overboard here.
Please send along any good ideas you have; I believe this is easier than finding a truly prominent Spanish scientist.
If you are curious, so far I am planning on using the following for the coming spring:
Henry James, The Aspern Papers; The Bible, selections; Victor Hugo, Les Miserables; Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato; Tolstoy’s “Hadji Murad”; Franz Kafka, Assorted; Herman Melville, Assorted; Plato, dialogues concerning the trial of Socrates; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, and Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children.
I may ask for some broader help suggestions later, but for now please send only autobiography suggestions.
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