Biography & Autobiography
Mémoires, lettres et pièces authentiques touchant la vie et la mort de S.A.R. M…
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Le duc de Berry ( Versailles, 1778_ Paris, 1820) est le neveu de Louis XVIII, et le fils du Comte d’Artois, futur Charles X.Il sert dans l’a…
Tschaikovsky And His Orchestral Music
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Louis Biancolli
Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s…
Historic Boyhoods
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Rupert S. Holland
Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, …
Cardinal Wolsey
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Mandell Creighton
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) will always be remembered as the Lord Chancellor who fell from power when he failed to obtain the annulme…
Imaginotions
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Tudor Jenks
This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are no…
Abraham Lincoln: A History
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John Hay and John George Nicolay
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Eleven years a drunkard
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Thomas Doner
He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling i…
From Sail to Steam
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan, American historian and author, whose The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 became instrumental in the form…
A Mind That Found Itself
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Clifford Whittingham Beers
At twenty-four, Clifford Beers, Yale graduate and son of an old New England family, was confined to a mental institution, where he experienc…
Out of the Shadow
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Rose Gollup Cohen
In this interesting autobiography we get a very candid look into the life of Rose Cohen, a Russian Jewish girl who immigrates from Russia to…
The Secret of Charlotte Brontë
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Frederika Richardson Macdonald
Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own resi…
John Knox
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A. Taylor Innes
A scholarly and thoughtful biography of the Scottish Reformer. (Jael Baldwin)
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…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
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James Boswell
This is the fourth volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this…
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
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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…
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…
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…