Memoirs

Days with Walt Whitman

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Edward Carpenter


"Days with Walt Whitman" is a contemplative summary of the life of Walt Whitman and the making of the poet, by one of his follower…

My Story of the Civil War and the Under-Ground Railroad

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Marvin Benjamin Butler


Story of the Civil War as told by a private soldier's perspective of daily routines, challenges, anxieties, skirmishes, battle. (summary by …

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones


Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he …

Memories of the Civil War

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Henry B. James


Henry B James enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 20, and fought in many of the key battles of the Civil War. Thirty years later, he wr…

Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I

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Francis Asbury


As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Method…

All in the Day's Work

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Ida M. Tarbell


In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigativ…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665

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Samuel Pepys


Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…

Over Prairie Trails

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Frederick Philip Grove


When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …

Адмирал Колчак. Протоколы допроса

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Стариков Николай


Адмирал Колчак. Протоколы допроса   Протоколы допроса Колчака – важнейшее свидетельство истории. В ночь с 6 на 7 февраля 1920 года, А.…

Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed

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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…

Travels in Brazil, Volume 1

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Henry Koster


A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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Margaret Fuller


Margaret Fuller, the American early proponent for Women's rights, writes of her visits to the Great Lakes in the summer of 1843. - Summary b…

Мемуары

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Великая Княгиня Мария Павловна


Мемуары Великая княгиня Мария Павловна — дочь греческой принцессы Александры и великого князя Павла Александровича — младшего сына Александ…

The Hill

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Rupert Brooke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Rupert Chawner…

Воспоминания и размышления

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Жуков Георгий


Воспоминания и размышления За тридцать с лишним лет, что прошло с тех пор, как впервые вышла в свет книга Г. К. Жукова, она выдержала уже …

Our New Zealand Cousins

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James Inglis


A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …

A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins

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William James Mcglothlin


A memoir of a young woman, who lived in the late 19th century in the United States. Starting with her pastoral youth and progressing through…

Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China

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Robert Fortune


An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…

Familie en kennissen

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Piet Paaltjens


De schrijver François Haverschmidt is het best bekend van zijn dichtbundel ‘Snikken en Grimlachjes’, dat werd gepubliceerd onder het …

Schetsen uit Amerika

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Charles Dickens


"Schetsen uit Amerika", een Nederlandse vertaling van "American Notes" (vertaler onbekend), is een reisverslag van Charl…

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