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Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works / Humor
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Published in the June 16, 1888 edition of "Literature - An Illustrated Weekly Magazine" (Vol. 1, No. 17) these four, early magazine articles about Mark...
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln - Ward Hill LAMON
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln - Ward Hill LAMON
- Author: Ward Hill LAMON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Ward Hill Lamon's work is a study of the life of the 16th President of the United States of America from his childhood to the day of his first inauguration. Lamon, who worked with Lincoln during his administration, and who had access to the papers...
Minor Works of Josephus - Flavius Josephus
Minor Works of Josephus - Flavius Josephus
- Author: Flavius Josephus
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Antiquity
There are 3 parts to this collection. (1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity, as opposed to what Josephus claimed was the relatively more recent tradition of the Greeks....
Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection - Horace WALPOLE
Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His charming and witty letters are valuable pictures of the age. "A man so blessed that he could unfold every...
The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars - Anonymous
The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, T.O.S.F., (8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859), commonly known in English as St John Vianney, was a French parish priest who is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and as the patron saint of all priests. He is often...
Youth - Leo Tolstoy
Youth - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Youth is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)...
The Life of Cicero, Vol. II - Anthony Trollope
The Life of Cicero, Vol. II - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero...
Famous Assassinations Of History - Francis JOHNSON
Famous Assassinations Of History - Francis JOHNSON
- Author: Francis JOHNSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, religious, or national features of the epoch in which the assassination occurred are portrayed with historical...
John James Audubon - John Burroughs
John James Audubon - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Audubon's life naturally divides itself into three periods: his youth, which was on the whole a gay and happy one, and which lasted till the time of his marriage at the age of twenty-eight; his business career which followed, lasting ten or more...
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Marcus Aurelius
- Author: Marcus Aurelius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Biography & Autobiography
The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it was written for no one but himself. The style of writing that permeates the text is one that is simplified,...
Early Kings of Norway - Thomas CARLYLE
Early Kings of Norway - Thomas CARLYLE
- Author: Thomas CARLYLE
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
Shakespeare Identified - J. Thomas LOONEY
Shakespeare Identified - J. Thomas LOONEY
- Author: J. Thomas LOONEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism
That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists must doubtless appear to many as a glaring act of over- boldness; whilst to pretend to have actually...
Sailing Alone Around The World - Joshua SLOCUM
Sailing Alone Around The World - Joshua SLOCUM
- Author: Joshua SLOCUM
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years...
The Gamekeeper at Home - Richard JEFFERIES
The Gamekeeper at Home - Richard JEFFERIES
- Author: Richard JEFFERIES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Biography & Autobiography
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard’ in 1868 and also started to write articles and pamphlets on various agricultural issues and local...
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America - Charles KINGSTON
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America - Charles KINGSTON
- Author: Charles KINGSTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
The title and subtitle pretty much say it all. Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. (Summary by David Wales)...
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - John George NICOLAY
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - John George NICOLAY
- Author: John George NICOLAY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive biography of Lincoln, "Abraham Lincoln, a Biography." Although this is a condensation by Nicolay of that...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies...
Hereditary Genius - Sir Francis GALTON
Hereditary Genius - Sir Francis GALTON
- Author: Sir Francis GALTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Science
A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including college graduation, reputation during career, fellowships, and even known relatives. Includes discussions on...
Life of St. Vincent de Paul - Frances Alice Forbes
Life of St. Vincent de Paul - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Other
Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 - 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when galleys were part of any countries' war machine and these galleys were rowed by convicts who were in reality...
Bismarck - Georges LACOUR-GAYET
Bismarck - Georges LACOUR-GAYET
- Author: Georges LACOUR-GAYET
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the majority...but by iron and blood." Prince Bismarck unified the German states under Prussian hegemony through a...
Thirty Years A Slave - Louis HUGHES
Thirty Years A Slave - Louis HUGHES
- Author: Louis HUGHES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly as a house servant, but was privy to the intimate details and workings of the entire McGee cotton plantation...
My First Book (Version 2) - Various
My First Book (Version 2) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literature? Did they slave away every evening after a hard day at the office? Did they devote their golden years to...
Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography - Johannes JORGENSEN
Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography - Johannes JORGENSEN
- Author: Johannes JORGENSEN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day, which included fighting as a soldier. In 1205, while away at war, he experienced a vision that beckoned him...
The Desire of Ages - Ellen G. White
The Desire of Ages - Ellen G. White
- Author: Ellen G. White
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movement, and was one of the principle founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The Desire of Ages, first...
The Women Who Make Our Novels - Grant M. OVERTON
The Women Who Make Our Novels - Grant M. OVERTON
- Author: Grant M. OVERTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective...
The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A history of Russia from 500 B.C. to 1855 A.D., written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, the brother of Jacob Abbott. (Summary by Jean Bascom)...
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Author: William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. Sherman was one of the...
Schubert And His Works - Herbert Francis Peyser
Schubert And His Works - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like Haydn, like Mozart, Schubert’s capacity for creative labor...
Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 - William Morris DAVIS
Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 - William Morris DAVIS
- Author: William Morris DAVIS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is Volume VIII of the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs series. It is read as 33 sections using the memoir headings. John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was a leading figure in the geological explorations of the West and helped...
Biographies of Working Men - Grant Allen
Biographies of Working Men - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that "He could be described with more 'ists' than anyone else I ever saw. He was an atheist and pacifist and...
With Fire and Sword (Byers) - Samuel H. M. BYERS
With Fire and Sword (Byers) - Samuel H. M. BYERS
- Author: Samuel H. M. BYERS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them in spite of themselves. It happened that the writer of this book belonged to a regiment that seemed to be always...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in its efforts to represent Johnson as he was, celebrating his flaws as well as his genius, and in Boswell's...
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary), Tummus (Thomas) recounts the series of...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime / Christianity - Other
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to his destruction. He was accused of witchcraft after a series of accusations from nuns of a nearby convent, who...
Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert - Izaak WALTON
Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert - Izaak WALTON
- Author: Izaak WALTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C. Sir Henry Wotton (1568 – 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Author: Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as...
Madame de Staël - Bella DUFFY
Madame de Staël - Bella DUFFY
- Author: Bella DUFFY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Political Science
Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Paris salon where intellectuals gathered, many of whom contributed to the education of the brilliant girl. After his...
Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout - J. W. BUEL
Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout - J. W. BUEL
- Author: J. W. BUEL
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
BEING A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY OF ALL THE SANGUINARY COMBATS AND HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCOUTAND SPY AMERICA EVER PRODUCED. "Wild Bill, as a frontier character of the daring, cunning and honorable class, stands alone, without a...
Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master - Herbert Francis Peyser
Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music
Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked every step of his progress.... Haydn was a master by the grace of Heaven and a servant only by the artificial...