Biography & Autobiography
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
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Clayton Edwards
It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested…
The Life of Charlemagne
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Thomas Hodgkin
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope…
The Life of Cicero, Vol. II
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Anthony Trollope
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…
Jesse James, My Father
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Jesse James, Jr.
A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are treated to inside tales of Jesse's childhood and home life; what dro…
Chopin: the Man and His Music
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James Huneker
A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music …
Das Waldbauernbübel
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Peter Rosegger
"Das Waldbauernbübel" ist nichts anderes, als eine Sammlung von Erlebnissen und Erfahrungen aus dem Jugendleben in der Waldhe…
Our Young Folks' Plutarch
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Rosalie Kaufman
Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…
Youth
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Leo Tolstoy
Youth is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, published in a literary journal d…
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
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John C Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
Life of St. Vincent de Paul
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Frances Alice Forbes
Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 - 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when…
Memoir of Jane Austen
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James Edward Austen-Leigh
"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the …
The Life of Alfred the Great
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Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser
A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…
The Colored Cadet at West Point
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Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Mary Seacole
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…
J.S. Bach, Volume 1
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Albert Schweitzer
An analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious world in which he ac…
Boyhood
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Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal …
Indian Boyhood
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Charles Alexander Eastman
Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild&quo…
Fathers of Biology
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Charles Mcrae
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…
The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable
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Josephine Pollard
The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …