Biography & Autobiography

The Valley of Baca: a Record of Suffering and Triumph

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Jennie Smith


Jennie Smith was a 19th-Century Job. At 15 years old, her father's business and finances failed, and he later died of illness, leaving her f…

The Life of Philip Melanchthon

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Karl Friedrich Ledderhose


Philip Melanchthon (1497 – 1560) is best known as the theologian of the Protestant Reformation, systematizing and defending much of Martin …

Mozart's Youth

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Franz Hoffmann and Franz Hoffmann


This short account of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is part of the “Life Stories for Young People” series. It is written in an engaging …

Edward III

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William Parsons Warburton


Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …

Pierre Curie

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Marie Curie


This biography of the noted French physicist Pierre Curie was written by his wife, the renowned physicist Marie Curie. In it, she not only c…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…

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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Ingersoll on HUMBOLDT, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lecture…

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…

A Political Pilgrim in Europe

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Mrs. Philip Snowden


Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…

The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1

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Leopold Von Ranke


Leopold von Ranke was a German Lutheran historian and a founder of modern historical writing based on primary sources. This is a panoramic a…

Daniel Boone

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Katharine Elliott Wilkie


"Get out of Kentucky and stay out!" the Indians told Daniel Boone. But Daniel Boone did not scare easily.There was the time his da…

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol I

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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope


Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of som…

Mimosa, Who Was Charmed

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Amy Wilson Carmichael


“This story is true. It tells the eternally new tale of the matchless charm of our Lord Jesus Christ. One look at that loveliness, and, th…

The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known, Version 2

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Joseph Jacobs


From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…

The Complete Works of Brann, The Iconoclast, Volume 12

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William Cowper Brann


William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to b…

The Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 10

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Agnes Strickland


The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

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