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My Reminiscences - Rabindranath Tagore
My Reminiscences - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Memoirs
These Reminiscences were written and published by the Author in his fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and America for his failing health in 1912. It was in the course of this trip that he wrote for the first time in the...
My Life and Work - Henry FORD
My Life and Work - Henry FORD
- Author: Henry FORD
- Genre: Memoirs
Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Company. Throughout his memoir, he stresses the importance of tangible service and physical production over...
Creative Unity - Rabindranath Tagore
Creative Unity - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like the creative ideal, makes comparisons of creativity between the east and the west, the spirit of freedom and...
Village Life in America - Caroline Cowles Richards CLARKE
Village Life in America - Caroline Cowles Richards CLARKE
- Author: Caroline Cowles Richards CLARKE
- Genre: Memoirs
A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)...
The Autobiography of George Dewey - George DEWEY
The Autobiography of George Dewey - George DEWEY
- Author: George DEWEY
- Genre: Memoirs
Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War (1898). Written when Dewey was seventy-five years old and had served fifty-nine years in...
Wild Wales - George BORROW
Wild Wales - George BORROW
- Author: George BORROW
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862 and now a classic travel text on Wales and the Welsh. The book recounts Borrow's experiences,...
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester - William ATHERTON
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester - William ATHERTON
- Author: William ATHERTON
- Genre: Memoirs
This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is personal and at the same time very formal and reserved. As a foot soldier traipsing about the wild...
An American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker - Cornelia Stratton PARKER
An American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker - Cornelia Stratton PARKER
- Author: Cornelia Stratton PARKER
- Genre: Memoirs
In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their life together. As a member of California's turn-of-the-20th-century Immigration and Housing Commission,...
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Henry Festing JONES
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Henry Festing JONES
- Author: Henry Festing JONES
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Memoirs
Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he gives a reason...
Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I - Francis ASBURY
Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I - Francis ASBURY
- Author: Francis ASBURY
- Genre: Memoirs / Christianity - Other
As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Methodism, Francis Asbury kept a journal of his travels and activities. His journal begins with his prayerful...
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Psychology / Memoirs
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her..." More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated...
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic - Lawrence BEESLEY
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic - Lawrence BEESLEY
- Author: Lawrence BEESLEY
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that fateful night and the events leading up to it as well as the events that followed its sinking. - Summary written by Allyson Hester...
A Diary from Dixie - Mary CHESNUT
A Diary from Dixie - Mary CHESNUT
- Author: Mary CHESNUT
- Genre: Memoirs
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during the Civil War. Mrs. Chesnut moved in elite circles of Southern society and had a keen interest in politics. Her...
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front - E. W. Hornung
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Memoirs
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA canteens close behind the front...
The Tosa Diary - no Tsurayuki KI
The Tosa Diary - no Tsurayuki KI
- Author: no Tsurayuki KI
- Genre: Memoirs / Middle Ages/Middle History
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collected Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times". He is also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan. The...
A Waterbiography - Robert C. LESLIE
A Waterbiography - Robert C. LESLIE
- Author: Robert C. LESLIE
- Genre: Memoirs
Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He describes the progression of this love from wave to wave and boat to boat. Leslie sailed during the Great Age of...
My Trip Abroad - Charlie CHAPLIN
My Trip Abroad - Charlie CHAPLIN
- Author: Charlie CHAPLIN
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begins Charlie Chaplin's My Trip Abroad, a travel memoir charting the actor-director's semi-spontaneous visit to Europe....
A Voice From Harper's Ferry - Osborne Perry ANDERSON
A Voice From Harper's Ferry - Osborne Perry ANDERSON
- Author: Osborne Perry ANDERSON
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry organized by John Brown. The book details the motivations and preparations for the raid, the...
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission - Candido Mariano da Silva RONDON
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission - Candido Mariano da Silva RONDON
- Author: Candido Mariano da Silva RONDON
- Genre: Memoirs / Exploration
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt") in the Amazon basin. The expedition was jointly led by Theodore Roosevelt, the former President of...
A Surgeon In Arms - Robert James MANION
A Surgeon In Arms - Robert James MANION
- Author: Robert James MANION
- Genre: War & Military / Medical / Memoirs
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his memoir of the war. After the war he entered politics and served in several Canadian governments. The listener...
Through the Magic Door - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Through the Magic Door - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Memoirs
I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are...
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 - Edward WHYMPER
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 - Edward WHYMPER
- Author: Edward WHYMPER
- Genre: Sports & Recreation / Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1840-1911) one of the leading figures of the early years of Alpine climbing. He is best known, of course, for...
Mr. Harrison's Confessions - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mr. Harrison's Confessions - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Memoirs
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This assertion is born out by an essay...
Christmas Under Three Flags - Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
Christmas Under Three Flags - Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
- Author: Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Memoirs
This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, and assumed to be the first baby born in the White House. The book focuses...
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865) - Charles Todd QUINTARD
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865) - Charles Todd QUINTARD
- Author: Charles Todd QUINTARD
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate army in the American Civil War. A sympathetic, warm, intellectual man loved by soldier and civilian alike, he...
Vagabonding Down The Andes - Harry A. FRANCK
Vagabonding Down The Andes - Harry A. FRANCK
- Author: Harry A. FRANCK
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Sometime in the latter half of 1911, Harry A. Franck jumped out of a box-car and crossed the Rio Grande, from Laredo. Thus began a journey, often afoot, that Harry estimated would take him 8 months. It ended up occupying four years of his life. The...
Le Petit Nord - Anne MacLanahan GRENFELL
Le Petit Nord - Anne MacLanahan GRENFELL
- Author: Anne MacLanahan GRENFELL
- Genre: Memoirs
A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at the orphanage in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)...
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner - George-Günther von FORSTNER
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner - George-Günther von FORSTNER
- Author: George-Günther von FORSTNER
- Genre: Memoirs
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U-28. His journal, first published 1916, gives a gritty picture of daily life inside a submarine and details...
Travels to Oaxaca - Nicolas-Joseph THIÉRY DE MENONVILLE
Travels to Oaxaca - Nicolas-Joseph THIÉRY DE MENONVILLE
- Author: Nicolas-Joseph THIÉRY DE MENONVILLE
- Genre: Memoirs / Life Sciences
Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts to the French Caribbean. The year is 1776. Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville is a fast talker and a quick...
The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum) - Pierre Abélard
The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum) - Pierre Abélard
- Author: Pierre Abélard
- Genre: Memoirs
Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating.Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course doesthe very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a...
The Enormous Room - E. E. CUMMINGS
The Enormous Room - E. E. CUMMINGS
- Author: E. E. CUMMINGS
- Genre: Memoirs
"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found." He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the French Government. It took the better...
Insurgent Mexico - John REED
Insurgent Mexico - John REED
- Author: John REED
- Genre: History / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army when it defeated Federal forces...
Among the Tibetans - Isabella L. BIRD
Among the Tibetans - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs / Exploration
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeavours were risky and dangerous even for men and large, better equipped parties. In "Among the Tibetans", Bird...
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby - John S. MOSBY
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby - John S. MOSBY
- Author: John S. MOSBY
- Genre: Memoirs
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almost within sight of the capitol. With only a few local men under command, John Singleton Mosby's ability to...
Kept for the Master's Use - Frances Ridley Havergal
Kept for the Master's Use - Frances Ridley Havergal
- Author: Frances Ridley Havergal
- Genre: Memoirs / Christianity - Biographies
The memoirs of Frances Ridley Havergal, a great missionary and hymn writer. - Summary by PamC...
Hardtack and Coffee - John BILLINGS
Hardtack and Coffee - John BILLINGS
- Author: John BILLINGS
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Hard Tack and Coffee is not about battles, but rather...
The Mutiny of the Bounty and Other Narratives - William BLIGH
The Mutiny of the Bounty and Other Narratives - William BLIGH
- Author: William BLIGH
- Genre: Memoirs
In Bligh's own words, we hear about the lead-up to the famous mutiny and what happened afterwards with the mutineers and the castaways. This work contains two additional narratives by Bligh: Life of a Sailor Boy and The Sunken Treasure. (Summary by...
A Voyage to the South Sea - William BLIGH
A Voyage to the South Sea - William BLIGH
- Author: William BLIGH
- Genre: True Crime / Memoirs / Exploration
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on...
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen Vol. 1 - Howard CARTER
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen Vol. 1 - Howard CARTER
- Author: Howard CARTER
- Genre: History / Memoirs
On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (around 1300 BCE). Different than all the tombs hitherto excavated, this was...
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry PATTERSON
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry PATTERSON
- Author: John Henry PATTERSON
- Genre: Animals / Memoirs
In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the...