Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration – 15 April 2015
Read by David Wales
Various
April 14-15th, 2015, is the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is a collection of pieces to mark that…
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…
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…
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
Read by Pamela Nagami
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…
Lord Clive
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
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 Ordeal of Mark Twain
Read by Lucretia B.
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…
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.…
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 …
The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1
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Edward Tyas Cook
A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of he…
Henry D. Thoreau
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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
A biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thorea…
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 …
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
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James Headlam-Morley
"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…
An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant
Read by Sue Anderson
Marcus Eli Ravage
“The sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty. . . It was my first university.” Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by …