Biography & Autobiography
Bible (LSG, 1910) NT 04: Évangile selon Jean
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Louis Segond Bible
Ce quarante-troisième livre de la Bible, traduite par Louis Segond, au XIXe siècle et publiée au début du si&egr…
The Story of Napoleon
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …
Famous Men of Greece
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John Henry Haaren
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1
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Giacomo Casanova
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
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St. Ignatius Loyola
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Soc…
Henry Ford's Own Story
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Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the &q…
Early Kings of Norway
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Thomas Carlyle
"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fa…
Ten Days in a Madhouse
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Nellie Bly
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an …
My Life on the Plains
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George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…
The Confessions (Pusey translation)
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography e…
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Olive Gilbert
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…
The Underground Railroad, Part 1
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William Still
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still."Dear Sir:—For mo…
The World I Live In
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Helen Keller
The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of to…
Alexander Hamilton
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Charles A. Conant
Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American …
Sergeant York and His People
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Sam K. Cowan
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…
Minor Works of Josephus
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Flavius Josephus
There are 3 parts to this collection.(1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing it…
The Life of Kit Carson
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Edward S. Ellis
Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…
Richard III (Makers of History series)
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Jacob Abbott
Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks a…
Daniel Boone
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days …