Biography & Autobiography
Partial Portraits
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Henry James
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …
The Early Hanoverians
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Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
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Alma Lutz
Alma Lutz's outstanding biography of Susan B. Anthony is revered for its descriptive power, attention to detail and historical significance …
Great Men and Famous Women
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Charles F. Horne
A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Alfred…
The Long Ago
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Jacob William Wright and J. W. Wright
Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
The Empresses of Constantinople
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Joseph Martin McCabe and Joseph Martin Mccabe
In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies close…
Richard Strauss
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Herbert Francis Peyser
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Letters of Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to t…
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven
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Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The first scholarly biography on the life of Ludwig Von Beethoven. Volume 1 - Summary by Realisticspeakers
Ponnamal, Her Story
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
Mark Twain and the Happy Island
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Elizabeth Wallace
This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace an…
Hypatia
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John Toland
Hypatia is John Toland's biography of the one he calls "a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplish’d lady,…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
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James Boswell
This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been a…
Galileo
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Walter W. Bryant
Galileo Galilei is considered the father of observational astronomy, modern science, the scientific method and modern-era classical physics.…
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla
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A. H. Beesly
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…
Raleigh
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Edmund Gosse
Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the "Colony and Dominion of Virginia" (which included the present-day states…
Heroines of Service
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Mary Rosetta Parkman
From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…
The Woman With the Torch
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Eva Shaw McLaren and Eva Shaw Mclaren
This is a brief biography of the Scottish physician and suffragist Dr. Elsie Inglis. Dr. Inglis founded a maternity hospital for the poor…
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln
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Ward Hill Lamon
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…
The Life of Buddha
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A. Ferdinand Hérold
This is more than a biography of the spiritual leader, they are lessons we all can learn from his life. This is an enjoyable venture explor…