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Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1 - Charles F. Horne
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1 - Charles F. Horne
- Author: Charles F. Horne
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by Charles F. Horne, a prolific American...
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln - Helen Nicolay
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln - Helen Nicolay
- Author: Helen Nicolay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln is a biography with many anecdotes that takes one deeper into the thoughts, personality, and beliefs of the man that was Lincoln. While the title indicates the book is about Lincoln’s life as a boy, the book is a...
An Explorer in the Air Service - Hiram Bingham
An Explorer in the Air Service - Hiram Bingham
- Author: Hiram Bingham
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox at http://librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of...
Patience Worth - Casper S. Yost
Patience Worth - Casper S. Yost
- Author: Casper S. Yost
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well done: the quick-witted repartee...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
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 Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2 - Alexander von Humboldt
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2 - Alexander von Humboldt
- Author: Alexander von Humboldt
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Science
In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at Lake Valencia in the llanos of Venezuela and then travelling the mighty South American river, the Orinoco, and its...
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
- Author: Charles MCRAE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There is often among...
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2) - Margaret Duncan Kelly
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2) - Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Author: Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days 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 to the New World in...
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
- Author: Ralph Keeler
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Humor
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and...
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon has a stern or disdainful...
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...
Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton
Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism
G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)...
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) - Julia Ward Howe
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) - Julia Ward Howe
- Author: Julia Ward Howe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one of America's first prominent feminists. The author is Julia Ward Howe, best known for writing "The Battle...
Days with the Great Composers - May Gillington Byron
Days with the Great Composers - May Gillington Byron
- Author: May Gillington Byron
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, but interestingly. (Summary by David Wales) Note: This is a compilation of three books, each describing three...
The Life of Nelson - Robert Southey
The Life of Nelson - Robert Southey
- Author: Robert Southey
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
In 1813, the year that he was appointed Poet Laureate, Robert Southey published "The Life of Nelson". Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson was Britain's greatest Naval hero who had been killed during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 during which he had...
Lady Byron Vindicated - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lady Byron Vindicated - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's sordid private life which had led to a separation from his wife and drove him out of England, as told to her by Lady...
My Airships: The Story of My Life - Alberto Santos-Dumont
My Airships: The Story of My Life - Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Author: Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age. A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations....
Claimants to Royalty - John Henry Ingram
Claimants to Royalty - John Henry Ingram
- Author: John Henry Ingram
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)...
King Alfred of England - Jacob Abbott
King Alfred of England - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions and ushered in an era of learning and progress for the British Isles. Summary by Ryan Cherrick....
Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son - Robert E. Lee, Jr.
Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son - Robert E. Lee, Jr.
- Author: Robert E. Lee Jr.
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army officer. Published in 1905. Note: in many of the letters the recipient's name is printed after General Lee's...
Hero Tales from History - Smith Burnham
Hero Tales from History - Smith Burnham
- Author: Smith Burnham
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It is divided into nine sections: Mighty Men of Long Ago, Heroes of the Middle Ages, Four Leaders in the Old...
Agricola - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Agricola - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 6 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 6 - 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....
The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk - John Howell
The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk - John Howell
- Author: John Howell
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This work was the true story of Alexander Selkirk (1676 to December 13, 1721), a Scottish sailor who was employed in a number of different trades during his early life. As a young man, Selkirk learned the skills of tanning and shoemaking, and later...
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1 - Moncure Daniel Conway
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1 - Moncure Daniel Conway
- Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly the years of his birth through the end of the US Civil War. (Summary by JoeD)...
The Ghosts of Piccadilly - G. S. Street
The Ghosts of Piccadilly - G. S. Street
- Author: G. S. Street
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Collections
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived in Piccadilly (in London, England) ... and of some of the buildings, now long gone. "If any part of any city...
Life of Luther - Gustav A. Just
Life of Luther - Gustav A. Just
- Author: Gustav A. Just
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This short biography of Martin Luther, by Gustav Just, who taught at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School, St. Louis, is a standard resource for students, young and old. The first five chapters give a swift moving, succinct overview of church...
Johann Sebastian Bach - Herbert Francis Peyser
Johann Sebastian Bach - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day existence seems almost pedestrian.... The present volume, which advances no claim whatever to any new or...
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars - Edward Weitzel
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars - Edward Weitzel
- Author: Edward Weitzel
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public "intimate pen pictures of the stars of the screen." Weitzel interviews some of the most renowned film stars of the 1920s: Mary Pickford,...
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac - Eugene Field
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any...
Childhood - Leo Tolstoy
Childhood - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among Russian writers including Ivan...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10) - 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 10 chronicles Lincoln's life in early...
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography - John Relly Beard
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography - John Relly Beard
- Author: John Relly Beard
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revolt, he led thousands of slaves on the island of Hispañola to fight against the colonial European powers of France,...
The Story of Gladstone's Life - Justin McCarthy
The Story of Gladstone's Life - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimately divided it over the issue of Irish Home Rule, which he unsuccessfully championed. He brought to...
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket - Richard Gorton Barlow
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket - Richard Gorton Barlow
- Author: Richard Gorton Barlow
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the batting with A. N. Hornby for Lancashire and England, often acting as a "stonewaller" who "carried his bat through the...
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks - Ellen Walworth
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks - Ellen Walworth
- Author: Ellen Walworth
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha's lifespan of only about 24 years was spent in utter humility and penitence. In spite of her natural diffidence, she summoned the strength to assert her desire to become a Christian and to consecrate herself as a virgin, and...
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - Nellie Bly
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - Nellie Bly
- Author: Nellie Bly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Wearing one dress and carrying one handbag, Elizabeth...
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman - Martha Summerhayes
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman - Martha Summerhayes
- Author: Martha Summerhayes
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories about life and conditions in different camps and forts in which she lived with her expanding family, people along the...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, why he was imprisoned, and how he was treated during imprisonment, remains a mystery that has captivated...
Sir Francis Drake - Julian Corbett
Sir Francis Drake - Julian Corbett
- Author: Julian Corbett
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), the farmer's son who became Queen Elizabeth's most feared privateer and her most daring and resourceful...
