Biography & Autobiography

Biographies In Sound 56 12 18 A Portrait Of Fred Allen



Jack Haley narrates "A Portrait of Fred Allen", an audio biography of Fred, who had died earlier in that year, with clips from his…

Zubin Mehta


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Zubin Mehta Born in Bombay, the charismatic and cosmopolitan orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta has had an international career that has spanne…

T. De Witt Talmage 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…

Among the Great Masters of the Drama

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Walter Rowlands


In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…

Sir Titus Salt, Baronet, His Life and Its Lessons

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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…

Ingersoll on ROBERT BURNS, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lec…

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Robert Burns and Robert G. Ingersoll


This is a duet by Michele Fry, reading Ingersoll's essay, and Kay Williams, an authentic Scotsman, reading Burns' poetry. Robert Burns (25 J…

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…

Four Masters of Etching

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Frederick Wedmore


Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artists of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour H…

Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work; Vol. 1

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George Thomas Bettany


Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. From the birth of the renowned Edinburgh School of Medicine, to William H…

Fact Stranger than Fiction

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John Patterson Green


I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…

A Pickle For the Knowing Ones

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Timothy Dexter


Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …

Augustus Caesar and the Organisation of the Empire of Rome

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John Benjamin Firth


There is, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no biography of Augustus Caesar - a most curious fact when one considers the extraordinar…

In Ship and Prison: A Story of Five Years in the Continental Navy with Captain …

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William P. Chipman


The incidents of this book are taken largely from the log-book of Captain Tucker, and are intended to picture the stirring times in which he…

Little Masterpieces of Autobiography - Artists and Composers

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George Iles


Artists and Composers is Volume 5 of Library of Little Masterpieces of Autobiography in Six Volumes published in 1913, and includes autobiog…

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