Biography & Autobiography
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography
Artists and Composers is Volume 5 of Library of Little Masterpieces of Autobiography in Six Volumes published in 1913, and includes autobiog…
Fact Stranger than Fiction
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…
Great Men and Famous Women
This is volume 5, Workmen and Heroes, in the series of books about famous people throughout history. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Biographies In Sound
Jack Haley narrates "A Portrait of Fred Allen", an audio biography of Fred, who had died earlier in that year. The program feature…
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta, born in Bombay, is a charismatic and cosmopolitan orchestra conductor with an international career that has spanned continents.…
As I Knew Him
The Autobiography of Thomas De Witt Talmage, he was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid 19th cen…
Ingersoll on ERNEST RENAN
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…
Sir Titus Salt, Baronet
Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mil…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
The Life of Mozart
Volume 2 in the 3 Volume Set on the Life of Mozart, one of the greatest classical composers of all time. - Summary by Mozartjr
Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
Adventures in Silence
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…
Cromwell's Place in History
In the autumn of 1896, the renowned historian of the 17th century, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, delivered six lectures on "Cromwell's Place …
Cardinal Wolsey
From the "Twelve English Statesmen," series of books. A brief history of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey who helped shape England's foreign…
Beneath the Banner
The subtitle of this book, "Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds" defines the author's choice of notable figures of his…
Adventures in Idealism
Professor H. L. Sabsovich is recognized as one of the foremost figures in the field of Jewish social service. A great part of his active lif…
Life of Haydn
In this book the German music scholar Ludwig Nohl provides a fascinating narrative of Joseph Haydn's life from an impoverished childhood to …
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…