Biography & Autobiography

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne



Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope

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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope



Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…

Great Men and Famous Women

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Charles F. Horne



This is volume 5, Workmen and Heroes, in the series of books about famous people throughout history. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…

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United States Work Projects Administration



These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Gleanings in Graveyards

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Horatio Edward Norfolk



Interesting, witty, and unusual epitaphs found in graveyards in England, Wales, Scotland, and more. Feast on this gem:Dr. I. Letsome wrote …

Biographies In Sound

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Jack Haley narrates "A Portrait of Fred Allen", an audio biography of Fred, who had died earlier in that year. The program feature…

Zubin Mehta


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Zubin Mehta, born in Bombay, is a charismatic and cosmopolitan orchestra conductor with an international career that has spanned continents.…

As I Knew Him

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Thomas De Witt Talmage and Eleanor McCutcheon Talmage



The Autobiography of Thomas De Witt Talmage, he was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid 19th cen…

Ingersoll on ERNEST RENAN

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Robert G. Ingersoll



Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…

Sir Titus Salt, Baronet

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Robert Balgarnie



Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mil…

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

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Elbert Hubbard



Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

The Life of Mozart

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Otto Jahn



Volume 2 in the 3 Volume Set on the Life of Mozart, one of the greatest classical composers of all time. - Summary by Mozartjr

Hobbes

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Leslie Stephen



Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

Adventures in Silence

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Herbert W. Collingwood



What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…

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