Biography & Autobiography
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Francis Tiffany
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …
The Life of Christ
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Frederic Farrar and Frederic W. Farrar
The author, Frederic W. Farrar, was a Doctor of Divinity, and Fellow of the Royal Society, and at the time of publication of this edition, a…
My Thirty Years In Baseball
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John McGraw and John Mcgraw
The autobiography of John Joseph McGraw, another one of the "greats" of baseball. McGraw, along with Casey Stengel, has managed t…
The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vol. 1
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Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The first of three volumes of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. Covers the years 1770-1802. - Summary by Zain Solinski
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 9
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Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…
The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
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George Cavendish
Thomas Wolsey was an English statesman and Catholic bishop. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all…
Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers
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Edith Hubback Brown
"Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" by Edith & John Hubback is a biography that explores the lives of Jane Austen's two sailor bro…
Patience Worth
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Casper S. Yost
Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. …
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
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Julia Ward Howe
A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…
Legends of the Saints
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Mary Seymour
Delightful children's book composed of fifty-five short Catholic legends. Included are stories of St. Nicholas, St. Christopher, St. Francis…
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2
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Ida M. Tarbell
Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…
My Larger Education
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Booker T. Washington
This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…
Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana
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Charles Hughes
"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 kn…
A Group of Famous Women
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Edith Horton
It is a remarkable fact that little attention, if any, has been given to the study of the careers of distinguished women, and the question h…
The Story of My Life, Part 3 (Supplemental - Helen's Education)
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Helen Keller
Secondary Title - A supplementary Account of Helen Keller's Education, including passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne …
Shri Dnyaneshwar - A Sketch Of His Life And Teachings
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William James McGlothlin
An overview of the life of Shri Dnyaneshwar and his devoted family. Dnyaneshwar was a 13th-century Indian poet and yogin. He commentated the…
The Story of Slavery
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington, the author of the following sketch of slavery in America, was himself born a slave, and the story of his life begins w…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket
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Richard Gorton Barlow
R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the b…