Memoirs
Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball
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William Hanford Edwards
A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)
The Enormous Room
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E. E. Cummings
"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found."He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.He was …
Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'
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Roy Chapman Andrews
An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for …
The Real Latin Quarter
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Frank Berkeley Smith
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General …
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William Atherton
This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is…
Life of Chopin
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Franz Liszt
Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique…
A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie
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Joseph Benjamin Polley
Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and e…
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
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John Keats
These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However,…
The Elephant Man and other reminiscences
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Frederick Treves
In 1884, Professor Treves saw Joseph Merrick (known as the "Elephant Man") in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Bei…
With the Empress Dowager of China
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Katharine Carl
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Being a Boy
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Charles Dudley Warner
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…
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Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Old Hampshire Vignettes
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She …
A Soldier's Diary
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Ralph Scott
This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…
Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life i…
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Albert Millican
This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' v…
A Voice From Harper's Ferry
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Osborne Perry Anderson
A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid o…
The Cellar-House of Pervyse
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Mairi Chisholm
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…
Adrift on an Ice-Pan
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Sir Wilfred Grenfell
This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …
Land of the Burnt Thigh
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Edith Eudora Kohl
"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months…
Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800
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François-René de Chateaubriand
This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…