title: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (New York Review Books Classics)
author:  Alexander Berkman 
description: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is above all else the story of the education of one man.... [We] watch Berkman become humanized, tolerant, able to sympathize with the most diverse and antagonistic individuals.... No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals. -- <i>Kenneth Rexroth</i><br /><br />[Berkman's] prison memoirs are fantastic.... They are absolutely extraordinary. -- <i>Kay Boyle</i>
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  Table of Contents
  
  
    
  
  
  [Title Page](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_tp_r1.html)
  
  
  [Epigraph](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_epi_r1.html)
  
  
  [Foreword](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_frw_r1.html)
  
  
  [Introduction](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_itr_r1.html)
  
  
    
  
  
  [PART ONE 1892-1906 - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist and Two
  Letters](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_p01_r1.html)
  
  
  [Section 1: - Prison Memoirs of an
  Anarchist](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_c01_r1.html)
  
  
  [From Part One: The Awakening and Its
  Toll](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_c01_r1.html#h1)
  
  
  [From Part Two: The
  Penitentiary](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_c01_r1.html#h2)
  
  
  [Part Four: The Resurrection](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_c01_r1_b.html#h3)
  
  
  [Section 2: Two Letters](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_c02_r1.html)
  
  
  [Emma Goldman to Alexander Berkman, November 23, 1928, ST.
  TROPEZ](../Text/berk_9781609800062_oeb_c02_r1.html#h1)
  
  
    
  
  
  [PART TWO 1906-1919 