Biography & Autobiography

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol. II

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


This volume, the second volume of a two-volume set, contains over 125 letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1781-1791. It has been…

Adventures in Idealism

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Eugene Benjamin, Boris Bogen, Saul Drucker, Jacob Lipman, Solomon Lowenstein, Bernard Palitz, Joseph W. Pincus, Katharine Sabsovich and George W. Simon


Professor H. L. Sabsovich is recognized as one of the foremost figures in the field of Jewish social service. A great part of his active lif…

Life of Haydn

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Ludwig Nohl


In this book the German music scholar Ludwig Nohl provides a fascinating narrative of Joseph Haydn's life from an impoverished childhood to …

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…

The Girls' Book of Famous Queens

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Lydia Hoyt Farmer


In the annals of history, women have played an important part; and among the famous sovereigns of the world, queens, as well as kings, have …

Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative

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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 …

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1

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William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

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…

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…

Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work; Vol. 2

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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, Vol. 1

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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…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

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