Biography & Autobiography
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
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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…
Napoleon The First
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Walter Geer
Excerpt: "Now that one hundred years have elapsed since the "long-drawn agony" of Saint Helena we think that the time has com…
Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua
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Samuel Downing Moore
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was a former slave, native of West Africa. He was sold as a slave in 1845 and worked in Brazil as a captive; however…
A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington
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Walter Clinton Jackson
Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War. He was born to a slave woman …
Biographies of Working Men
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Grant Allen
Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that …
Mazarin
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Arthur Hassall
Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Thou…
Life and Lillian Gish
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Albert Bigelow Paine
An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bige…
Autobiography Memories and Experiences
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Moncure Daniel Conway
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly t…
Pauls Ontwaken
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Frederik Van Eeden
In dit aangrijpende korte werk beschrijft de schrijver en psychiater Frederik van Eeden het leven en met name de dood van Paul, de jongste z…
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Eugene Field
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibl…
Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II
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Lionel Allshorn
Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries …
Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger, an advocate for birth control rights, chronicles the story of her struggles, including her times in jail and in exile, in o…
Twelve Types
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G. K. Chesterton
Short biographical essays of twelve persons central to European culture. - Summary by KevinS
עולה
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יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner
This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story "Injustice" by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conq…
Jeanne D'Arc
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Margaret O. Oliphant
The story of Jeanne d'Arc, or Joan of Arc , has passed into folklore and has been retold by many. The young teenager was sent by an as-yet u…
The Life of Florence Nightingale
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Edward Tyas Cook
A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of he…
Mark Twain; his life and work
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William M. Clemens
As far as anyone has been able to establish, Will Clemens was NOT related to Sam Clemens (Mark Twain), though they did become acquaintances.…