Biography & Autobiography

Stories of the Lives of Noble Women

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W. H. Davenport Adams



The object of the present volume is to illustrate from the Lives of Noble Women those higher qualities which elevate the character of the se…

Letters from Great Musicians to Young People

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Anna Alice Chapin and Alethea Crawford Cox



The object of this little book is to bring the reader nearer to the great masters in the realm of music, and make him or her acquainted with…

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…

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…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

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William Cabell Bruce



His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

Story-Lives of Great Musicians

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Francis Jameson Rowbotham



Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…

James B. Eads

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Louis How



Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…

Lapérouse

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Ernest Scott



Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker

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