Biography & Autobiography
Mark Twain's Autobiography
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Mark Twain
While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st centur…
Lady Byron Vindicated
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's …
The Autobiography of George Dewey
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George Dewey
Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the S…
With Fire and Sword
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Samuel H. M. Byers
Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them…
Abraham Lincoln: A History
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John Hay
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…
Escape From The Confederacy
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Benjamin F. Hasson
Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a pris…
The Man Who Dared a King
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Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
"The Man Who Dared a King" is a simple children's story of St. John Fisher, the heroic bishop who chose Christ over Henry VIII. (A…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
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James Boswell
This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this …
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars
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Edward Weitzel
A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public "intimate pen pictures o…
Loss of the Sultana
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Chester D. Berry
April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been releas…
The Autobiography of Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence t…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
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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…
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
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John Dickinson
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and…
Life of Charles Dickens
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Sir Frank T. Marzials
Early biography of Charles Dickens published just 17 years after Dickens' death. Summary by Colleen McMahon
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
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William Cooper Nell
A study of the black patriots of the American Revolution, with introductions by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wendell Phillips.
Abraham Lincoln: A History
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John Hay
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…
The Life of David Brainerd
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Jonathan Edwards
A biography about David Brainerd, one of the first missionaries to the Native Americans, using excerpts from his diary and journals. This wo…
Theodore Roosevelt
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Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic
Read by Pamela Nagami
Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
While there are many general histories of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the Oxford historian, Charles Oman, writes that his li…
Sir Francis Drake
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Julian Corbett
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)…