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Famous Men of Rome - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of Rome - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for children. (summary by Laura Caldwell)...
Saint Benedict - Frances Alice Forbes
Saint Benedict - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 543 or 547) is honoured by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students. Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy (about 40 miles (64 km) to the east of Rome), before moving...
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays - Sir William OSLER
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays - Sir William OSLER
- Author: Sir William OSLER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. "Sir William Osler, one of the best-loved and most influential teachers of his time, was born in Canada in...
Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy - Herbert Francis Peyser
Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of those achievements and unremitting conflicts which entered into the texture of this master’s agitated and...
Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous - Sarah Knowles Bolton
Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous - Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to action. Life at best has much...
Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James - Joseph. A. DACUS
Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James - Joseph. A. DACUS
- Author: Joseph. A. DACUS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Biographies of Frank and Jesse James, detailed accounts of all their significant escapades, and the final outcomes. - Summary by PJ Landau...
A Glimpse of India - Clara SWAIN
A Glimpse of India - Clara SWAIN
- Author: Clara SWAIN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. - Summary from the book's introduction...
Sergeant York and His People - Sam K. COWAN
Sergeant York and His People - Sam K. COWAN
- Author: Sam K. COWAN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in the ways of the world. Caught by the enemy in the cove of a hill in the Forest of Argonne, he did not run;...
Chapters from my Autobiography - Mark Twain
Chapters from my Autobiography - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th...
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Poetry / Biography & Autobiography
Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth published the first version of the poem in 1798, but continued to work on it for the rest of his life. The...
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin - Elizabeth Robins PENNELL
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin - Elizabeth Robins PENNELL
- Author: Elizabeth Robins PENNELL
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects of such censure...The young were bidden not to read her books, and the more mature warned not to follow her...
The Life of Captain James Cook - Arthur Octavius KITSON
The Life of Captain James Cook - Arthur Octavius KITSON
- Author: Arthur Octavius KITSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
“In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care has been taken to omit nothing of importance, and at the same time a few slight errors have been corrected, and...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3) - 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 3 chronicles Lincoln's life from his...
Six Years in the Prisons of England - Frank HENDERSON
Six Years in the Prisons of England - Frank HENDERSON
- Author: Frank HENDERSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fellow prisoners came to be in prison, and his ideas about the penal system, its downfalls and ways to improve it....
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan
- Author: John Bunyan
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Other
Grace Abounding is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan, who also penned Pilgrim’s Progress, perhaps one of the most significant pieces of Christian literature, second only to the Bible. Grace Abounding follows Bunyan’s struggle to find true...
Palmetto Leaves - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Palmetto Leaves - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Family Life / Biography & Autobiography
After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they lived during the winter months. Over the years they expanded their cottage to accommodate many guests (now a...
The Log-Cabin Lady - Unknown
The Log-Cabin Lady - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
'The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear through mastery of manners and customs. It has been written by one who has not sacrificed the strength and honesty...
Famous Impostors - Bram Stoker
Famous Impostors - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Aliases. Fraudsters. Confidence tricksters. People pretending to be what they are not, for financial, political or personal gain. Fiction is filled with them to entertain us; but would not be anywhere near as believable if such people had not, in...
The Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy - Jesse POMEROY
The Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy - Jesse POMEROY
- Author: Jesse POMEROY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Jesse Harding Pomeroy was only 12 years old when he was arrested for the assault of 7 boys near his home in the South Boston area of Massachusetts. He was sent to reform school for a year and released. Shortly after his release, the body of a young...
Raleigh - Edmund Gosse
Raleigh - Edmund Gosse
- Author: Edmund Gosse
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the "Colony and Dominion of Virginia" (which included the present-day states of North Carolina and Virginia) in North America ended in failure at Roanoke Island, but paved the way for subsequent...
The Life of Oscar Wilde - Robert SHERARD
The Life of Oscar Wilde - Robert SHERARD
- Author: Robert SHERARD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Life of Oscar Wilde was the second of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. - Summary by Rob Board...
Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy - E. Luscomb HASKELL
Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy - E. Luscomb HASKELL
- Author: E. Luscomb HASKELL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law" by E. Luscomb Haskell was published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1892 by the Harvard Law School Library, and is part of "The Making of the Modern...
A Retrospect - J. Hudson TAYLOR
A Retrospect - J. Hudson TAYLOR
- Author: J. Hudson TAYLOR
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Join James Hudson Taylor on the God-led journey through his calling, time of preparation, and life work in China. This British Christian missionary founded China Inland Mission (CIM), now known as OMF International. - Summary by HannahMary...
The Story of Mary MacLane - Mary MacLane
The Story of Mary MacLane - Mary MacLane
- Author: Mary MacLane
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was popular among young girls, but was strongly criticized by conservative readers, and lightly ridiculed by H.L....
Peter the Great - Jacob Abbott
Peter the Great - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign among young persons is due in a...
Yankee at Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
Yankee at Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
- Author: Eva K. BETZ
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
As a daring soldier in the Union Army, Ira Dutton earned the respect and affection of the men around him. Handsome and affable, he could have had a full social life when the war was over. But he felt that his "wild years" demanded atonement - and...
Curiosities of Street Literature - Various
Curiosities of Street Literature - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Satire / Biography & Autobiography
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about criminal conduct, love, the Royal...
Brief Lives Volume I - John AUBREY
Brief Lives Volume I - John AUBREY
- Author: John AUBREY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying popularity, with Ruth Scurr's...
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in...
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2) - Olive Gilbert
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2) - Olive Gilbert
- Author: Olive Gilbert
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrative, as told by Sojourner Truth to her friend Olive Gilbert, recounts to the best of her recollection what she...
J.S. Bach, Volume 1 - Albert SCHWEITZER
J.S. Bach, Volume 1 - Albert SCHWEITZER
- Author: Albert SCHWEITZER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
An analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious world in which he acted. (Introduction by Kathleen Norland)...
The History of Mary Prince - Mary PRINCE
The History of Mary Prince - Mary PRINCE
- Author: Mary PRINCE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Mary Prince was born into slavery in the West Indies. As a free woman in England she wrote her memoirs, which sold well and supported and publicised the anti-slavery movement. NB This book contains racial vocabulary and refers to physical and sexual...
Louis Pasteur - Albert KEIM
Louis Pasteur - Albert KEIM
- Author: Albert KEIM
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical / Modern (19th C)
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to the study of chemistry, microbiology, and applied immunology, a mind open, innovative, and insightful. Born of peasant...
Karl Marx: An Essay - Harold J. LASKI
Karl Marx: An Essay - Harold J. LASKI
- Author: Harold J. LASKI
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Born in Manchester in 1893, Harold Laski was a leading figure in the left-wing of British socialism in the first half of the 20th century. An executive member of the Fabian Society and member of the Socialist League faction of the Labour Party, he...
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman - Philip STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman - Philip STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
- Author: Philip STANHOPE 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Philosophy
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Secretary of State. Having no legitimate...
Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea - Laura E. Howe Richards
Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said: "Who, of all the workers in the...
For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka - William T. KANE
For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka - William T. KANE
- Author: William T. KANE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Saint Stanislaus Kostka was a 16th century Polish novice in the Society of Jesus. Polish nobleman John Kostka was not pleased with the spiritual inclinations of his second son. He did all he could to discourage Stanislaus’s desire for Christian...
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah - Beth ELLIS
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah - Beth ELLIS
- Author: Beth ELLIS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young woman’s visit to Burma. The account documents her ocean voyage to Rangoon, and her stay in a small, jungle-embedded,...
