Biography & Autobiography
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land
"Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. Willia…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
Horace Walpole's Letters
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…
A Journey Round My Room
Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…
The Early Hanoverians
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
Partial Portraits
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …
Vie de Brahms
La vie de Johannes Brahms n’a rien de romanesque. Le musicologue Paul Landormy nous prévient : « C’est une vie tout unie : elle…
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
Alma Lutz's outstanding biography of Susan B. Anthony is revered for its descriptive power, attention to detail and historical significance …
Great Men and Famous Women
A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Alfred…
The Long Ago
The Long Ago offers a reflective glimpse into the boyhood of Jacob William Wright, a lesser-known American poet whose life was shaped by the…
The Empresses of Constantinople
In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies close…
Ponnamal, Her Story
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
Richard Strauss
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Letters of Oscar Wilde
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to t…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been a…
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven
The first scholarly biography on the life of Ludwig Von Beethoven. Volume 1 - Summary by Realisticspeakers
Hypatia
Hypatia is John Toland's biography of the one he calls "a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplish’d lady,…
The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…