Biography & Autobiography
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
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Timothy Dexter
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
My Actor-Husband
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William James McGlothlin
In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and stri…
Cavour
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Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…
Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work
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George Thomas Bettany
Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. From the birth of the renowned Edinburgh School of Medicine, to William H…
George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania
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Marin Barleti
This is an early account of the life of George Castriot, Dominus Albaniae; An Albanian princeling and Ottoman military commander who rebelle…
Life of Liszt
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Ludwig Nohl
The Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer, Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886), is still regarded as one of the greatest classical musicians of all …
Stories of Grit
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Archer Wallace
"There are just two classes of boys who should be permitted to read these fascinating pages.The ambitious boys are in one class; those …
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
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United States Work Projects Administration
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Handel
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Romain Rolland
As Romain Rolland indicates in the preface, this book is a brief sketch of the life and technique of Handel. He provides biographical backgr…
The Story of Mary A. Mayo's Work for Farm Women
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Jenny Buell and Jennie Buell
This is a short biography of Mary Mayo, covering her work with rural farm women in Michigan and beyond in the last quarter of the 19th centu…
Alfred the Great
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A. E. Mckilliam
A good direct life, with considerable on the Danish invasion and so, usable in connection with history classes in the upper grammar grades a…
Mémoires d’outre-tombe
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Ce sont deux textes des Suppléments extrêmement intéressants, et à lire associés aux Livres des Mém…
Mémoires d’outre-tombe
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Ce livre des Suppléments aux Mémoires d’outre-tombe, À Maintenon, écrit en 1836, complète le Livre 41. Il…
Ingersoll on ROBERT BURNS
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Robert Burns and Robert G. Ingersoll
This is a duet by Michele Fry, reading Ingersoll's essay, and Kay Williams, an authentic Scotsman, reading Burns' poetry. Robert Burns (25 J…
King Edward I of England
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Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I (1239 – 1307), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The eldest son of Henry III, Edward was involved from an early age in the p…