Sentence examples for mock autobiography from inspiring English sources

Devotees of Laurence Sterne's 18th-century novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, will recognise that the title is taken from the last sentence of this incomparably idiosyncratic mock autobiography.

Published in 1983, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde is a mock autobiography that attempted what few others would even dare: an authentic recreation of the Wildean voice and intellect.

It is possible for Rees to make these smooth transitions in and out of Defoe's text thanks to the way that the novel is written, like so many early examples of the form, as a mock autobiography, a fiction masquerading as a documentary record of a single life.

It's a mock autobiography.

As he sinks deeper into the autobiography, Irving conducts mock interviews with his subject, for which he puts on a thin mustache and a Texan drawl.

His claim to be the "good" hacker has been undermined by poor judgement and the monumental ego that emerges when he mocks his opponents in his autobiography: "They needed a villain with silver hair, some kind of cat-stroking nutcase bent on serial seduction and world domination".

"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" slyly mocks the immortality that biography seeks to bestow on its subjects.

In both a South Bank Show edition and in her autobiographies, Edna mocks Humphries, always referred to as her "manager", as a bitter failure who is forced to endure a showbiz career rather than the renown as an artist and novelist that he craved.

The paintings from the early 1950's are audacious things, mixing autobiography and art history in ways that mock and honor both, and they bridge the gap between gestural abstraction and incipient Pop.

His main claim to fame is as a panellist on Mock The Week, a pretty flimsy premise for a full-length autobiography and his healthy contempt for television ("a shiny bauble used to distract morons while they're having their pockets picked") makes this a refreshing antidote to the usual feelgood books by TV stars.

"I've always said I can't write an autobiography," he declared at the start of From Early Life, with mocking humility.