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History of Billy the Kid - Charles A. SIRINGO
History of Billy the Kid - Charles A. SIRINGO
- Author: Charles A. SIRINGO
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equalled in the annals of criminal history. When a bullet pierced his heart he was less than twenty-two years of age, and had killed twenty-one men, Indians not included. The author feels that he...
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Benjamin Randell HARRIS
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Benjamin Randell HARRIS
- Author: Benjamin Randell HARRIS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. ( Summary by Graham Keeling)...
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land - Charles George HARPER
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land - Charles George HARPER
- Author: Charles George HARPER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. William Shakespeare, in which many things both new and entertaining are to be found...and wherein certain fanatics are...
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery - Charles Raymond BEAZLEY
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery - Charles Raymond BEAZLEY
- Author: Charles Raymond BEAZLEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Prince Henry was a significant explorer and adventurer in a period of enlightenment and expansion of European trade and knowledge of the world beyond its borders. He is considered a prime instigator of what has become known as The Age of Discovery...
Martin Luther - Carl E. KOPPENHAVER
Martin Luther - Carl E. KOPPENHAVER
- Author: Carl E. KOPPENHAVER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Christianity - Biographies
This short, engaging volume summarizes the life of a priest who, intending to spark a lively academic debate by nailing 95 theses on a church door, unwittingly sets the continent aflame with the 1517 Reformation of the Catholic Church. - Summary by...
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen - Osmund AIRY
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen - Osmund AIRY
- Author: Osmund AIRY
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded the masterly Peace of Westphalia for France, confronts the rebellions of the nobility known as the Fronde. By...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not "the elder,"...
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Mary SEACOLE
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Mary SEACOLE
- Author: Mary SEACOLE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be unique in literature. If singleness...
My Life in the South - Jacob STROYER
My Life in the South - Jacob STROYER
- Author: Jacob STROYER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from his early childhood on the planation up to his involvement in Confederacy's war effort and eventually his...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited several times by other persons, such...
The Mentor: Famous English Poets - Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Mentor: Famous English Poets - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is Vol. 1, No. 44, Serial No. 44 of The Mentor, published in 1913.This edition of the Mentor Magazine focuses on six of England's most well-known poets - Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson and Robert...
Unsung Heroes - Elizabeth Ross HAYNES
Unsung Heroes - Elizabeth Ross HAYNES
- Author: Elizabeth Ross HAYNES
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were "unsung." Some of them are now pretty well known while others are still, sadly, rather unrecognized. Written by Elizabeth Ross Haynes (herself a African American...
The Confessions (Pusey translation) - Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions (Pusey translation) - Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1,000 years, through...
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of...
Prophets, Priests, And Kings - Alfred George GARDINER
Prophets, Priests, And Kings - Alfred George GARDINER
- Author: Alfred George GARDINER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as seen before the great cataclysm of World War I. Gardiner was a British newspaper editor, journalist, and...
Oscar Wilde: A Study - André GIDE
Oscar Wilde: A Study - André GIDE
- Author: André GIDE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnotes and two letters in French untranslated by the translator. -Summary by david wales...
Napoleon, A Short Biography - Robert Matteson JOHNSTON
Napoleon, A Short Biography - Robert Matteson JOHNSTON
- Author: Robert Matteson JOHNSTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a 'lightning biography' which serves as an introduction to the field of Napoleonic history. Its purpose is to enable the ordinary reader or would-be student safely to take the first few steps in Napoleonic literature. This is not a short...
The Autobiography of Madam Guyon - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The Autobiography of Madam Guyon - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- Author: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (April 13, 1648 - June 9, 1717) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was...
Behind the Scenes - Elizabeth KECKLEY
Behind the Scenes - Elizabeth KECKLEY
- Author: Elizabeth KECKLEY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventually worked for Mary Lincoln. It is a fascinating book, filled with many recollections of her own life and her...
The Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 7 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 7 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
In Defense of Harriet Shelley - Mark Twain
In Defense of Harriet Shelley - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of Shelley". Even though, as Twain writes, "Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it, but is otherwise worshipfully...
Mark Twain - Archibald HENDERSON
Mark Twain - Archibald HENDERSON
- Author: Archibald HENDERSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Many writers have penned studies of Mark Twain's life and work through the years. Twain authorized this biography, having met and hosted the writer, Archibald Henderson, on a few occasions. Henderson considered this work to be an homage to one of...
The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273 - Beatrice A. LEES
The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273 - Beatrice A. LEES
- Author: Beatrice A. LEES
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudalism and monasticism, of chivalry and the Crusades." The era opened "with gloomy prospects for Western Christendom....
Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Louise Creighton
Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Louise Creighton
- Author: Louise Creighton
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Sir Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618), English soldier, explorer, courtier, writer, and poet was one of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era. Louise Creighton's short biography follows him from the wars in Spain to the jungles of Guiana....
Mrs. Shelley - Lucy Madox ROSSETTI
Mrs. Shelley - Lucy Madox ROSSETTI
- Author: Lucy Madox ROSSETTI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving and truthful research on all the subjects surrounding the life of Mrs.Shelley." -Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti Mrs....
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh - Margaret Duncan Kelly
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh - Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Author: Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"Relates the story of Raleigh from his boyhood days on the coast of Devonshire, to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth. We travel with him as he pursues the ships of the Spanish Armada and makes voyages...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 6) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 6) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 6 chronicles Lincoln's life in early...
George Müller of Bristol - Arthur T. PIERSON
George Müller of Bristol - Arthur T. PIERSON
- Author: Arthur T. PIERSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
George Muller was a great hero of faith. His greatest aim was to demonstrate that God answers prayer and can be trusted for every minute detail of life. Spending countless hours asking God to provide his needs, he only relied upon God. God called...
History of Henry the Fourth King of France and Navarre - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
History of Henry the Fourth King of France and Navarre - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. He was raised in the Protestant faith, barely escaped death in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, and led the Protestant forces against the...
Life of Viscount Palmerston - Lloyd Charles SANDERS
Life of Viscount Palmerston - Lloyd Charles SANDERS
- Author: Lloyd Charles SANDERS
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Prime Minister. Sanders writes that by 1841 Palmerston "had raised the...
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
L.M. Montgomery's autobiography highlighting her childhood and early literary career. Published in 1917 after she had written several novels. - Summary by Carolyn Agee...
The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls - Marianne KIRLEW
The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls - Marianne KIRLEW
- Author: Marianne KIRLEW
- Genre: Religion / Biography & Autobiography
Marianne Kirlew tells the story of John Wesley, English revivalist and founder of Methodism, in short chapters in simple language and an engaging style for children. With scraps of dialog, poetry and scripture, John Wesley as a person comes alive...
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts out his life, and his love toward Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde wrote this as a farewell letter to Douglas. (summary by...
Geronimo’s Story of His Life - GERONIMO
Geronimo’s Story of His Life - GERONIMO
- Author: GERONIMO
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the...
The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Charles Warren STODDARD
The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Charles Warren STODDARD
- Author: Charles Warren STODDARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is the inspiring story of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231). The son of a wealthy Portuguese family, he was initially ordained a priest of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine. In 1221, he took up the habit of a poor Franciscan friar and...
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Charlotte Brontë was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest classics of all time. Just two years after...
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars - Gaius SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars - Gaius SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS
- Author: Gaius SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian's personal secretary. On the Life of...
The Travels of Ibn Batuta - Ibn BATTUTA
The Travels of Ibn Batuta - Ibn BATTUTA
- Author: Ibn BATTUTA
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
Ibn Battuta (1304 – ca. 1369), was a Moroccan explorer. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands. His journeys included trips to North Africa, West Africa, the Horn of...
The World I Live In - Helen KELLER
The World I Live In - Helen KELLER
- Author: Helen KELLER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In...
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at the end of an extraordinarily productive year in which he had produced The Twilight of the Idols and The...
