Biography & Autobiography

Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

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Various


A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …

Royal Romances of Today

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Kellogg Durland


"In the year 1907, the Woman’s Home Companion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marri…

The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1

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William E. Barton


Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a h…

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

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Johan Huizinga


This shorter book on Erasmus might be considered a companion to Huizinga's most famous work, The Waning of the Middle Ages. While in his mag…

The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1

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Ida M. Tarbell


Volume 1 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln covers his life from his boyhood to his election to the presidency in 1860. Tarbell, in addit…

The Precipice

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Elia Wilkinson Peattie


Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…

Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

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Herbert Francis Peyser


In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…

Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

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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…

Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter

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Josephine Brown


Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own…

The Life of St. Dominic Savio

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John Bosco


This it the most authentic biography of St. Dominic Savio, seeing as it is written by St. John Bosco, Savio's teacher. (Summary by Mozartjr)

Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

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Herbert Francis Peyser


[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, pe…

English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture

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Sir Francis Galton


The results of a survey undertaken by Galton to learn more about individual differences and similarities between the "pre-eminent"…

History of Henry the Fourth King of France and Navarre

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott


Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. He was raised in the Protestant …

Legends of Charlemagne (Version 2)

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Thomas Bulfinch


This study of Charlemagne is directed at the general literature reading public. Although the author tried to remain true to the legend and m…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of …

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Sir Joseph Pope


A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. It was written by the man who served as Macdonald's private secret…

Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors

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George Iles


The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This…

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