Biography & Autobiography

Life of Henry David Thoreau

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Henry Salt


Henry David Thoreau was a fascinating man, contributing vast amounts of information on nature history, leading the way for environmentalism.…

Meine Reise um die Welt Zweite Abteilung

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Mark Twain


Ein humoristischer Reisebericht über eine Reise von Australien nach Indien und Südafrika.(Zusammenfassung von Katharina21)

My First Book (Version 2)

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Various


Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds

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Frederick J. Cross


In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…

The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Orville J. Victor


Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…

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…

The Nobel Prize in 1904

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Various


The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

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Justin Mccarthy


The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…

Henry James At Work

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Theodora Bosanquet


Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…

Jerry McAuley: His Life and Work

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Jerry Mcauley


Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in…

Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psycho…

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Frederick Adams Woods


Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…

Last of the Great Scouts

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Helen Cody Wetmore


A biographical account of the boy who became "Buffalo Bill" written by his sister. A wide variety of experiences from his first jo…

Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books

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Edward Francis Harkins


The purpose of this book is to renew an intimate acquaintance with the women whom the American reading public regards as favorites, and to …

Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy

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James Moores Ball


Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…

The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 2

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William E. Barton


Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a h…

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