Biography & Autobiography

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland

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Felix Mendelssohn


A collection of the letters which Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy wrote while in Italy and Switzerland. Mendelssohn, a multifaceted talent of th…

Adventures in Silence

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Herbert W. Collingwood


What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…

Borden of Yale '09: "The Life that Counts"

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Mrs. Howard Taylor


Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…

Recollections of Johannes Brahms

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Albert Hermann Dietrich and Joseph Victor Widmann


Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a friend of Johannes Brahms and the first part of this book includes vivid recollect…

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 2

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Diogenes Laertius


Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers provides a wealth information about the lives and teachings of ancient Greek thinkers. Desp…

My Musical Life

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Walter Damrosch


This is the autobiography of the Prussian-born American conductor Walter Damrosch. It includes dozens of anecdotes about many of the great m…

The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers

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Lydia Hoyt Farmer


The aim of this book is to give in as concise manner as possible, consistent with graphic narration and biographical completeness, the most …

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