Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist  (1912)  by Alexander Berkman

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is Alexander Berkman's account of his experience in prison in the U.S. from 1892 to 1906. First published in 1912 by Emma Goldman's Mother Earth press, it has become a classic in autobiographical literature. -- from Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist at Wikipedia

Table of Contents

Part I

• Chapter 1: The Call of Homestead
• Chapter 2: The Seat of War
• Chapter 3: The Spirit of Pittsburgh
• Chapter 4: The Attentat
• Chapter 5: The Third Degree
• Chapter 6: The Jail
• Chapter 7: The Trial

Part II

• Chapter 1: Desperate Thoughts
• Chapter 2: The Will to Live
• Chapter 3: Spectral Silence
• Chapter 4: A Ray of Light
• Chapter 5: The Shop
• Chapter 6: My First Letter
• Chapter 7: Wingie
• Chapter 8: To the Girl
• Chapter 9: Persecution
• Chapter 10: The Yegg
• Chapter 11: The Route Sub Rosa
• Chapter 12: "Zuchthausbluethen"
• Chapter 13: The Judas
• Chapter 14: The Dip
• Chapter 15: The Urge of Sex
• Chapter 16: The Warden's Threat
• Chapter 17: The "Basket" Cell
• Chapter 18: The Solitary
• Chapter 19: Memory-Guests
• Chapter 20: A Day in the Cell-House
• Chapter 21: The Deeds of the Good to the Evil
• Chapter 22: The Grist of the Prison-Mill
• Chapter 23: The Scales of Justice
• Chapter 24: Thoughts That Stole Out of Prison
• Chapter 25: How Shall the Depths Cry?
• Chapter 26: Hiding the Evidence
• Chapter 27: Love's Dungeon Flower
• Chapter 28: For Safety
• Chapter 29: Dreams of Freedom
• Chapter 30: Whitewashed Again
• Chapter 31: "And By All Forgot, We Rot and Rot"
• Chapter 32: The Deviousness of Reform Law Applied
• Chapter 33: The Tunnel
• Chapter 34: The Death of Dick
• Chapter 35: An Alliance With the Birds
• Chapter 36: The Underground
• Chapter 37: Anxious Days
• Chapter 38: "How Men Their Brothers Maim"
• Chapter 39: A New Plan of Escape
• Chapter 40: Done to Death
• Chapter 41: The Shock at Buffalo
• Chapter 42: Marred Lives
• Chapter 43: "Passing the Love of Woman"
• Chapter 44: Love's Daring
• Chapter 45: The Bloom of "The Barren Staff"
• Chapter 46: A Child's Heart-Hunger
• Chapter 47: Chum
• Chapter 48: Last Days

Part III

• The Workhouse

Part IV

• The Resurrection

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