Biography & Autobiography
Captain John Smith
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Captain John Smith is probably best known for his association with the colonization of Virginia from the early days of Jamestown, and his ex…
The Story of George Fox
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Rufus Jones
A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel
When Buffalo Ran
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George Bird Grinnell
"Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed.In s…
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 Valley of Baca
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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…
Robert Louis Stevenson
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G. K. Chesterton
This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitl…
Mémoires d’outre-tombe (Troisième Partie, Livre 28)
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François-René de Chateaubriand
The dogaressas of Venice
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Edgcumbe Staley
A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy
William the Third
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Henry Duff Traill
William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …
Gertrude Bell
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Ronald Bodley and Lorna Hearst
A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time. An adventurous traveler who fell completely…
Women of Versailles
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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
Kentucky Narratives
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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 Diary of a Russian Lady
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Barbara Doukhovsky
This book was not intended to be published, and it is to accident that we owe its appearance.The author, from her childhood, followed affect…
Полное собрание сравнительных жизнеописаний в 4 томах. Том 1-2
Read by Михаил Рогов, Михаил Поздняков, Леонид Кареев
Плутарх
Полное собрание сравнительных жизнеописаний в 4 томах. Том 1. Том 2 Наряду с трагедиями Эсхила и Еврипида, "Историей" Геродота и …
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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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'…
Episodes Before Thirty
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Algernon Blackwood
Blackwood wrote this autobiography in his fifties, describing his first thirty years as an almost penniless British adventurer in Canada and…
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
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Carl Sandburg
A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an acc…
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories
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Alexander K. Mcclure
“A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America’s Greatest Story Teller With Introductio…
Mémoires d’outre-tombe (Troisième Partie, Livre 26)
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy
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Ruth Putnam
Charles the Bold was the last Duke of Burgundy of the House of Valois. Born in 1433, his dream was to be crowned king by declaring the terri…