Biography & Autobiography

A Friend of Marie-Antoinette

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Frédéric Barbeytranslated Byunknown and Frédéric Barbeytranslated By Unknown



Charlotte Atkyns (née Walpole) was an English actress. She was widowed while still in her 20s, and became an agent in the French Revo…

The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Mrs. Julian Marshall



Letters and excerpts of journals of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley were given to Florence Marshall by her son, Sir Percy Shelley in order to cr…

Mirrors of Moscow

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Louise Stevens Bryant and Louise Bryant



"Mirrors of Moscow" by Louise Bryant is a collection of journalistic sketches and profiles that examines the political and social …

Rossini

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W. Armine Bevan



A brief summary of the life of the opera king, Rossini. - Summary by Mozartjr

Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work

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George Thomas Bettany



Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. In this collection, we learn about men who developed specialities, of ten…

Caroline the Illustrious

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William Henry Wilkins



Caroline moved to England from Hanover when her father-in-law became George I and her husband Prince of Wales. She had a tumultuous relation…

Whitman: An Interpretation

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Emory Holloway



"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …

John Hancock

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Lorenzo Sears



This book sheds light on one of the greatest men in the American history, an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Pa…

Great Men and Famous Women

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Charles F. Horne



This is volume 6 in this series about the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent people in history. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Letters from Great Musicians

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Anna Alice Chapin and Alethea Crawford Cox



The object of this little book is to bring the reader nearer to the great masters in the realm of music, and make him or her acquainted with…

John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides

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John Paton



“Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to…

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

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Ángel Ruiz De Obregón Y Retortillo and Ángel Ruiz de Obregón y Retortillo



Breve biografía que conmemora los 400 años del descubrimiento del Océano Pacífico para los europeos y que fue ll…

Life and Times of Joseph Warren

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Richard Frothingham, Jr.



Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil…

Stories of the Lives of Noble Women

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W. H. Davenport Adams



The object of the present volume is to illustrate from the Lives of Noble Women those higher qualities which elevate the character of the se…

Hawthorne

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Henry James



A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…

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