Biography & Autobiography
Henry James At Work
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Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
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William Alexander MacKay
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
A Book of Sibyls
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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …
The Life of Washington
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John James Marshall
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
The Negro in Literature and Art
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…
Last of the Great Scouts
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Helen Cody Wetmore
A biographical account of the boy who became "Buffalo Bill" written by his sister. A wide variety of experiences from his first jo…
Les quarante fauteuils de l'Académie Française
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Charles Barthelémy
Depuis ses débuts en cercle de neuf amis, ensuite organisée et élargie sous la tutelle du cardinal de Richelieu en 1634…
The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Orville J. Victor
Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…
My First Book
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Various
Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…
Beneath the Banner
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Frederick J. Cross
In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…
A History of Our Own Times
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Justin Mccarthy
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty
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Frederick Adams Woods
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
William Shatner Julius Caesar To Captain Kirk
One of Montreal's most famous sons started his career playing Shakespeare at Stratford back in the day when the festival was housed in a ten…
The Nobel Prize
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Various
The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
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James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
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Ludwig van Beethoven and Ludwig Van Beethoven
This book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven arranged by topic and followed by quotations by Beethoven about the to…
Our Southern Highlanders
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Horace Kephart
Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …