Biography & Autobiography
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…
Anglo-American Memories
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George Washburn Smalley
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…
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…
Constantine the Great: The Reorganization of the Empire and the Triumph of the …
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John Benjamin Firth
In the following chapters, my object had been to tell the story of the Life and Times of Constantine the Great. Whether he deserves the epi…
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…
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…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
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George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 06
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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, Vol II
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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, Vol. 5
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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
Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook
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Eddie Guerin
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…
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…