This remarkable anthology of the world's greatest diarists includes a staggering number of contributors and is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive ever compiled. Over ten years in the making, The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms.Great diarists are as rare as great dramatists and great poets. They tell it as it is, without fear or favour, regardless of who the future readers of their diaries might be. The best diarists are those who write without looking over their shoulders.
