Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History
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John Hay and John George Nicolay
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…
Abraham Lincoln: A History
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John Hay and John George Nicolay
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…
Edward the First
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Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) …
Vaninka
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Alexandre Dumas
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…
My Chinese Marriage
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Mae Franking
Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…
The Life of Charles G. Finney
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Aaron Merritt Hills
A.M. Hills, theologian and preacher in the Wesleyan holiness tradition, gives us a detailed biography of Charles G. Finney, one of the most …
The Story of My Childhood
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Clara Barton
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, recalls growing up in early 19th Century Massachusetts. (Introduction by Veronica Jenkins)
Life of Edward the Black Prince
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Louise Creighton
Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England. He commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Créc…
A Waterbiography
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Robert C. Leslie
Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi
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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…
Warren Hastings
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …
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 …
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…
The Sainted Queens
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Unknown
A collection of short biographies of six Catholic Queens who became saints. Saint Margaret of Scotland - Saint Elisabeth of Portugal - Saint…
Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat
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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…
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…
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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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…
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…