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Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark discursive style, providing a living glimpse of the great talker, the man who could hold his contemporaries...
The Women of the American Revolution Volume 1 - Elizabeth F. ELLET
The Women of the American Revolution Volume 1 - Elizabeth F. ELLET
- Author: Elizabeth F. ELLET
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Excerpt from Preface: Their patriotic sacrifices were made with an enthusiasm that showed the earnest spirit ready on every occasion to appear in generous acts. Some gave their own property, and went from house to house to solicit contributions for...
Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration – 15 April 2015 - Various
Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration – 15 April 2015 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
April 14-15th, 2015, is the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is a collection of pieces to mark that occasion. Whitman’s poems, written shortly after the death, express his intense grief. Here are prose pieces...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This recording of Paine's exhaustive...
Famous Men of Greece - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of Greece - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / Biography & Autobiography
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...
Just Me - Pearl WHITE
Just Me - Pearl WHITE
- Author: Pearl WHITE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. White guides us through her early childhood, her development as a performer, and finally to her breakout role...
Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy - William Henry HELM
Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy - William Henry HELM
- Author: William Henry HELM
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled on her books. The lavender may lie between their pages, but it is still sweet. Helm briefly surveys...
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland - Elizabeth BISLAND
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland - Elizabeth BISLAND
- Author: Elizabeth BISLAND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Catching wind of this...
The Heroines of History - John S. JENKINS
The Heroines of History - John S. JENKINS
- Author: John S. JENKINS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A look at some of the famous women in European history. Includes biographies on Cleopatra; Isabella of Castile; Joan of Arc; Maria Theresa; Josephine; Elizabeth of England; Mary of Scotland; Catherine of Russia; Marie Antoinette; and Madame Roland....
Gutenberg and the Art of Printing - Emily Clemens PEARSON
Gutenberg and the Art of Printing - Emily Clemens PEARSON
- Author: Emily Clemens PEARSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This book is readable account of one of the greatest inventions of modern time: moveable type. Gutenberg's work lays the foundation for the printing press, without which the world would look very different... It reads both as biography and as...
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers - Samuel Smiles
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers - Samuel Smiles
- Author: Samuel Smiles
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution. Engineers and designers tend to be fairly anonymous figures in history – content to make things rather than...
Eminent Victorians - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
Eminent Victorians - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Author: Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the...
History of a Six Weeks' Tour - Percy Bysshe Shelley
History of a Six Weeks' Tour - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, this small journal was a travel narrative kept by the...
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain"...
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers - Charles BRADLAUGH
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers - Charles BRADLAUGH
- Author: Charles BRADLAUGH
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Atheism & Agnosticism
This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times through the 19th century. The book focuses on freethinkers, who are known to say things which upset those in power,...
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714) - George Henry WAKELING
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714) - George Henry WAKELING
- Author: George Henry WAKELING
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
This slim volume by the Oxford University lecturer, George Henry Wakeling, deals with the period in British history from the reign of King James I through the death of Queen Anne. The story begins with England, transformed by the Protestant...
Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead - John L. RANSOM
Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead - John L. RANSOM
- Author: John L. RANSOM
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. This is his diary which he published some few years...
Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks - Herbert Francis Peyser
Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music
In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as Bach, Mozart or Schubert, even if...
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 2 - Giacomo CASANOVA
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 2 - Giacomo CASANOVA
- Author: Giacomo CASANOVA
- Genre: Erotica / Biography & Autobiography
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 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 necessary, to conquer...
English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture - Sir Francis GALTON
English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture - Sir Francis GALTON
- Author: Sir Francis GALTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The results of a survey undertaken by Galton to learn more about individual differences and similarities between the "pre-eminent" men of his time. Brief biographical information, biometric data and extensive quotations have been compiled and...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 - Sarah Raymond HERNDON
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 - Sarah Raymond HERNDON
- Author: Sarah Raymond HERNDON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place without money . . . There is nothing we can spare so well as Dick. . . . It would not do to be sentimental...
Great Inventors and Their Inventions - Frank Puterbaugh BACHMAN
Great Inventors and Their Inventions - Frank Puterbaugh BACHMAN
- Author: Frank Puterbaugh BACHMAN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a boat landing. Tied to the dock was...
Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study - Hamilton FYFE
Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study - Hamilton FYFE
- Author: Hamilton FYFE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Performing Arts
A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here at Librivox. (Refer to the etext for cast lists of plays - through 1901 - mentioned in the Section 12...
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events - John D. ROCKEFELLER
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events - John D. ROCKEFELLER
- Author: John D. ROCKEFELLER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Self-Help
A good book by the oil revolutionist of the 20th century. As they say "Men should listen to experience" and this book is all about the experience of the second highest taxpayer of the US during the 20's. Though it is not in the book, this is a small...
A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell - Ernest PROTHEROE
A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell - Ernest PROTHEROE
- Author: Ernest PROTHEROE
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested, court-martialed, found guilty of treason...
The Many-Sided Franklin - Paul Leicester FORD
The Many-Sided Franklin - Paul Leicester FORD
- Author: Paul Leicester FORD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A fast-paced, somewhat racey look into the life, accomplishments and idiosyncrasies of Benjamin Franklin. Acclaimed biographer Paul L. Ford uses Franklin’s letters, papers and journals to step us through Franklin's many adventures, to reveal...
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin - Francois-Joseph FETIS
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin - Francois-Joseph FETIS
- Author: Francois-Joseph FETIS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music / Performing Arts
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. François-Joseph Fétis...
The Underground Railroad, Part 5 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 5 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
"I congratulate you that, after much patient research, careful preparation, and untiring labor, you have completed your voluminous work on "THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD." I am sure your work will be found to be one of absorbing interest, worthy of the...
Henry D. Thoreau - Franklin Benjamin SANBORN
Henry D. Thoreau - Franklin Benjamin SANBORN
- Author: Franklin Benjamin SANBORN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thoreau almost daily during the last seven years of his life and who knew and talked with members of his family....
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translated by John Oxenford (1812-1877) in 1848, which was a year of revolutions in Europe. Johann Goethe was a...
Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship - Robert SHERARD
Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship - Robert SHERARD
- Author: Robert SHERARD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship was the first of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. - Summary by Rob Board...
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - Francis Fisher BROWNE
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - Francis Fisher BROWNE
- Author: Francis Fisher BROWNE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper, serviceman, state legislator, lawyer, politician, Republican Party leader, and of course President. Along...
The Colored Cadet at West Point - Henry Ossian FLIPPER
The Colored Cadet at West Point - Henry Ossian FLIPPER
- Author: Henry Ossian FLIPPER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end of the Civil War. Once the war had ended, Flipper attended several schools showing a great aptitude for...
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace - John M. BURKE
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace - John M. BURKE
- Author: John M. BURKE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody is one of the legends of the American western frontier. As a teen he rode for the pony expressed and then drove for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. He later rejoined the army as a scout and was awarded...
The Romance of Missionary Heroism - John C LAMBERT
The Romance of Missionary Heroism - John C LAMBERT
- Author: John C LAMBERT
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography / Christianity - Other
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature in all parts of the world.” The thrilling accounts in this...
The Atrocities of the Pirates - Aaron SMITH
The Atrocities of the Pirates - Aaron SMITH
- Author: Aaron SMITH
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. Forced to work as a navigator and as a member of pirate boarding parties, he witnessed unspeakable acts of...
The Story of Garfield: Farm Boy, Soldier and President - William Gunion RUTHERFORD
The Story of Garfield: Farm Boy, Soldier and President - William Gunion RUTHERFORD
- Author: William Gunion RUTHERFORD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A short biography of President James A. Garfield - Summary by Eddie Frierson...
Warwick the Kingmaker - Charles William Chadwick Oman
Warwick the Kingmaker - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), wealthy and powerful peer of England, was one of the leaders of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). He joined Richard, Duke of York in opposing the ineffectual and often incapacitated Lancastrian...
