Biography & Autobiography

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3)

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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…

Shakespeare Identified

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J. Thomas Looney


That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson

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Dewitt C. Peters


Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide - an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literatu…

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)…

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

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask

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Alexandre Dumas


In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader…

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Ethel T. Raymond


Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk …

Nero

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Jacob Abbott


Nero tells the life story of one of the most infamous of Roman Emperors. - Summary by Deon Gines

The Latch Key of My Bookhouse

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Olive Beaupre Miller


This is the final book in a six volume set of the "My Bookhouse" books. This final title in the series leaves off the format of th…

Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States

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Charles Godfrey Leland


The book is a biography of Abraham Lincoln with emphasis on how his personality and beliefs impacted the history of the American Emancipatio…

Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador 1821-1875

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Augustine Berthe and Augustine Berthetranslated Bymary Elizabeth Ashe À Court-Repington, Baroness He…


Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (1821–1875) was an Ecuadorian pol…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

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Benvenuto Cellini


Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

Mark Twain

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Archibald Henderson


Many writers have penned studies of Mark Twain's life and work through the years. Twain authorized this biography, having met and hosted the…

Herndon's Lincoln

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William H. Herndon


A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for…

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 6)

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John Hay and John George Nicolay


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 First American Sister of Charity: Elizabeth Bayley Seton

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John Clement Reville


This is a picturesque and moving account of the life and work of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821), the first native-born citizen of th…

Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic

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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…

The Confessions of a Poacher

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John Watson


The poacher of these "Confessions" was no imaginary being. Following in his father's and forefather's footsteps, he learnt from an…

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