Biography & Autobiography
The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls
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Marianne Kirlew
Marianne Kirlew tells the story of John Wesley, English revivalist and founder of Methodism, in short chapters in simple language and an eng…
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty
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Hester Lynch Piozzi
Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illus…
The Real Latin Quarter
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Frank Berkeley Smith
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates
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Iola Beebe
The life of American frontiersman, adventurer, and prospector "Swiftwater" Bill Gates as told by his mother in law. During the K…
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2
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Benvenuto Cellini
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…
Mrs. Shelley
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Lucy Madox Rossetti
"I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving an…
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4
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Justin Mccarthy
In Volume IV of this series on the Hanoverian kings, Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Huntly McCarthy, both Liberal Irish MPs., bring on …
The Sainted Queens
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A collection of short biographies of six Catholic Queens who became saints. Saint Margaret of Scotland - Saint Elisabeth of Portugal - Saint…
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire
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Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley
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John Gilmary Shea
"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette…
Biographia Literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat, or, The Thrilling Adventures of Uncle Jethro: Embracing the Remarkable Episodes in a Life of Toil and Danger, on Land and Sea
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E. C. Cornell
Experiences of Jethro Ripley, mainly in the Atlantic coast trade, but including an account of a whaling voyage around Cape Horn. The narrati…
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Version 2)
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Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Claimants to Royalty
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John Henry Ingram
A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)
A Day With Great Poets
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May Gillington Byron
Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us …
The Women Who Make Our Novels
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Grant M. Overton
”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely un…
Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409
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Oscar Browning
The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Daniel Boone is celebrated in history and legend as one of the foremost pioneers who opened up the wilderness of Kentucky. Famed for his sk…
Maria Theresa
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James Franck Bright
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…
Women of Achievement
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important w…