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The Life of St. Teresa - Frances Alice Forbes
The Life of St. Teresa - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Teresa of Γvila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa SΓ‘nchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 β 4 October 1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, an author of the Counter Reformation and...
The Makers of Canada: Champlain - Narcisse-Eutropee DIONNE
The Makers of Canada: Champlain - Narcisse-Eutropee DIONNE
- Author: Narcisse-Eutropee DIONNE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A biography of Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founder of Quebec, and father of New France. ( Summary by Cathy Barratt )...
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
- Author: Thomas HODGKIN
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor. The author tells us that he "was a man of commanding presence, more...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical writing, a treasure-house of Johnson's...
The Life Of Charlotte BrontΓ« Volume 2 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Life Of Charlotte BrontΓ« Volume 2 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest classics of all times. Just two years after...
The Story of My Childhood - Clara BARTON
The Story of My Childhood - Clara BARTON
- Author: Clara BARTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, recalls growing up in early 19th Century Massachusetts. (Introduction by Veronica Jenkins)...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 8) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 8) - 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 8 chronicles Lincoln's life from 1862 to...
Transformed; or, the History of a River Thief, Briefly Told - Jerry MCAULEY
Transformed; or, the History of a River Thief, Briefly Told - Jerry MCAULEY
- Author: Jerry MCAULEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Jerry McAuley gives a testimony of his transformation from one of the wickedest men to ever live to being saved and a life of helping others do the same. (Summary by Curt Walton)...
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1 - Giacomo CASANOVA
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1 - Giacomo CASANOVA
- Author: Giacomo CASANOVA
- Genre: Erotica / Biography & Autobiography
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice β 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats, intimidation, and aggression, when...
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2 - Benvenuto CELLINI
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2 - Benvenuto CELLINI
- Author: Benvenuto CELLINI
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 1 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 1 - 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 Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Ulysses S. Grant - Owen Wister
Ulysses S. Grant - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is only 145 pages in a little pamphlet size. The author is famous for his stories of the Old West, but he also...
Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana - Charles HUGHES
Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana - Charles HUGHES
- Author: Charles HUGHES
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my knowledge, all the Observations which I might make or hear, all the verses never likely to be published and in fine...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3 - 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...
Lincoln, The Lawyer - Frederick Trevor HILL
Lincoln, The Lawyer - Frederick Trevor HILL
- Author: Frederick Trevor HILL
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This biography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on his practice as a lawyer. (Summary by MaryAnn)...
Confessions of a Convert - Robert Hugh Benson
Confessions of a Convert - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Robert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife Mary. Benson was was a prolific and popular writer during his time, and in 1903 he became a prominent convert to the Roman Catholic Church from...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 2 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 2 - 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....
Great Artists: Volume 1 - Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
Great Artists: Volume 1 - Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
- Author: Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study. Summary by Laura...
Apologia Pro Vita Sua - John Henry Newman
Apologia Pro Vita Sua - John Henry Newman
- Author: John Henry Newman
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Other
A religious autobiography of unsurpassed interest, the simple confidential tone of which "revolutionized the popular estimate of its author," establishing the strength and sincerity of the convictions which had led him into the Roman Catholic...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / 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...
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers - J. Walker McSpadden
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers - J. Walker McSpadden
- Author: J. Walker McSpadden
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the soldier βto trace his career up from boyhood through the formative years. Such data serves to explain the...
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works - Various
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of endeavor. Those areas include his experiences in India House, his moral character, certain botanical...
The Authoritative Life of General William Booth - George Scott RAILTON
The Authoritative Life of General William Booth - George Scott RAILTON
- Author: George Scott RAILTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
William Booth, together with his wife Catherine founded a small mission in London which eventually expanded to become a global movement, carrying the Christian gospel message of salvation and holiness under the banner of the Salvation Army. While...
The Early Lives of Dante - Giovanni Boccaccio
The Early Lives of Dante - Giovanni Boccaccio
- Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This recording contains two early biographies of Dante, both written by notable Florentine literati. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 -1375) was an Italian poet, most famous for his monumental collection of tales, The Decameron. Like Dante, Boccacio was one...
Half a Century - Jane Grey SWISSHELM
Half a Century - Jane Grey SWISSHELM
- Author: Jane Grey SWISSHELM
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships
In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) unleashed a...
Emily BrontΓ« - Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
Emily BrontΓ« - Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
- Author: Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism
Emily BrontΓ« (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an Anglican curate. When BrontΓ« was three years old her mother died of cancer. At the age of six she...
The Confession of a Child of the Century - Alfred de MUSSET
The Confession of a Child of the Century - Alfred de MUSSET
- Author: Alfred de MUSSET
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
In this autobiographic novel, an aging man reflects on his past. We are witness to the relationships he has along the way, his mistakes, and finally-- in the most unexpected and honorable way-- the sudden development of his belief in God. (Summary...
A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 - Elisabeth G. STRYKER
A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 - Elisabeth G. STRYKER
- Author: Elisabeth G. STRYKER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and also the first Bible Society that began distribution of millions of Bibles around the world. His final mission...
The Lepers of Molokai - Charles Warren STODDARD
The Lepers of Molokai - Charles Warren STODDARD
- Author: Charles Warren STODDARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is the story of the lepers of Molokai and of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Damien, who ministered to those who languished in that desolate place, waiting for death to release them from a most intense form of physical and mental...
The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas JEFFERSON
The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas JEFFERSON
- Author: Thomas JEFFERSON
- Genre: Bibles / Biography & Autobiography
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the later years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as...
Famous Men of the Middle Ages - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of the Middle Ages - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
βTHE study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume their right proportions. The...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists - 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...
Philip Augustus - William Holden HUTTON
Philip Augustus - William Holden HUTTON
- Author: William Holden HUTTON
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II was locked in combat with his rebellious offspring, Philip and his loyal son, Louis, steadily consolidated the...
Eleven years a drunkard, or, The life of Thomas Doner: having lost both arms through intemperance, he wrote this book with his teeth as a warning to others - Thomas DONER
Eleven years a drunkard, or, The life of Thomas Doner: having lost both arms through intemperance, he wrote this book with his teeth as a warning to others - Thomas DONER
- Author: Thomas DONER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling it produces at the time of drinking. It doesn't bring one home to shelter but drives them away. It leads one...
Richard I - Jacob Abbott
Richard I - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it...
My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick DOUGLASS
My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick DOUGLASS
- Author: Frederick DOUGLASS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self elevation under the most adverse circumstances; it is, moreover, a noble vindication of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery movement....
Captains of Industry - James PARTON
Captains of Industry - James PARTON
- Author: James PARTON
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the...
The Making of an American - Jacob A. Riis
The Making of an American - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life and unrelenting attempts at courtship in Denmark followed by his later experiences in the United States,...
The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates - Iola BEEBE
The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates - Iola BEEBE
- Author: Iola BEEBE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The life of American frontiersman, adventurer, and prospector "Swiftwater" Bill Gates as told by his mother in law. During the Klondike gold rush of the 1890's, Gates made and lost several fortunes. He once gave a dance house girl her weight in...
George Washington - Calista McCabe COURTENAY
George Washington - Calista McCabe COURTENAY
- Author: Calista McCabe COURTENAY
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virgina militia and then as a member of General Braddock'a staff during the...