Memoirs

My Life in the South

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Jacob Stroyer


My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from …

Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa

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Karl Theodor Stöpel


Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa und die erste Besteigung des Niitakayama (Mount Morrison) Weihnachten 1898, so der vollständ…

Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

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Owen Chase


Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28…

Insurgent Mexico

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John Reed


In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

The Life of Apollonius of Tyana

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Flavius Philostratus


Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province …

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Version 2)

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Benjamin Franklin


In Benjamin Franklin's lifetime, he kept good record of his life and travels, and although Franklin was never a president, he still plays a …

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 01

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…

Der Grüne Heinrich (zweite Fassung)

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Gottfried Keller


Der grüne Heinrich von Gottfried Keller ist ein teilweise autobiographischer Roman, der neben Goethes Wilhelm Meister und Stifters Nach…

Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839

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Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble


Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…

The Facts of Reconstruction

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John R. Lynch


After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

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Benjamin Randell Harris


The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. (Summary by Graham Keeling)

196 Tage auf treibender Eisscholle

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Emil Bessels


Am 29. Juni 1871 stach das Schiff » Polaris« von New York unter Kapitän Franz C. Hall in See zur Erforschung des Hochnorden…

Das Waldbauernbübel

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Peter Rosegger


"Das Waldbauernbübel" ist nichts anderes, als eine Sammlung von Erlebnissen und Erfahrungen aus dem Jugendleben in der Waldhe…

Pictures from Italy

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Charles Dickens


Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…

A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

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John R. Jewitt


John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

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Sarah Emma Edmonds


The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on th…

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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Margaret Fuller


Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…

Creative Unity

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Rabindranath Tagore


Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like t…

The Colored Cadet at West Point

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Henry Ossian Flipper


Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)

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Abner Doubleday


Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…

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