Biography & Autobiography
John Knox
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A. Taylor Innes
A scholarly and thoughtful biography of the Scottish Reformer. (Jael Baldwin)
A Small Boy and Others
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Henry James
A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his…
Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times
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Frederick Edward Maning
Introduction to Old New ZealandPhilip SteerVictoria University February 2004Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was a…
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Maisie Ward
This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward.Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936…
The Story of My Life and Work
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Booker T. Washington
The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser t…
Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration – 15 April 2015
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April 14-15th, 2015, is the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is a collection of pieces to mark that…
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace
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John M. Burke
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody is one of the legends of the American western frontier. As a teen he rode for the pony expr…
Some Famous Women
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Louise Creighton
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother…
Beethoven, A Character Study
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George Alexander Fischer
A book of the life of the German Composer, Beethoven. - Summary by Jessie Yun
Some Eminent Women of our Times
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical s…
Superwomen
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Albert Payson Terhune
In this 1916 work, Albert Payson Terhune introduces twelve immensely influential women, whose actions influenced world history. Terhune choo…
Lord Clive
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…
The Autobiography of a Clown
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Isaac Marcosson
This "as told to" autobiography of Jules Turnour is based on a popular article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1909.…
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
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Van Wyck Brooks
This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attribu…
Books Fatal to Their Authors
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Peter Hempson Ditchfield
This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand
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Alexandre Dumas
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…
Joseph Conrad
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Hugh Walpole
This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted Brit…
Prophets, Priests, And Kings
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Alfred George Gardiner
These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as …
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England
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Charles H. Firth
The Life of Cromwell is in part based on an article contributed by the author to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1888, but embodies …