Biography & Autobiography
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana
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Flavius Philostratus
Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province …
From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian
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Charles Alexander Eastman
From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to tran…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 01
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…
Heroes of the Middle Ages
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Eva March Tappan
"The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, …
The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
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Eleanor Constance Lodge
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…
A Retrospect
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J. Hudson Taylor
Join James Hudson Taylor on the God-led journey through his calling, time of preparation, and life work in China. This British Christian mis…
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
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Benjamin Randell Harris
The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. (Summary by Graham Keeling)
Karl Marx: An Essay
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Harold J. Laski
Born in Manchester in 1893, Harold Laski was a leading figure in the left-wing of British socialism in the first half of the 20th century. A…
The Life of Charlemagne
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Thomas Hodgkin
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope…
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
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Clayton Edwards
It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested…
The Life of Cicero, Vol. II
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Anthony Trollope
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…
Our Young Folks' Plutarch
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Rosalie Kaufman
Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…
Jesse James, My Father
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Jesse James, Jr.
A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are treated to inside tales of Jesse's childhood and home life; what dro…
Youth
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Leo Tolstoy
Youth is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, published in a literary journal d…
Chopin: the Man and His Music
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James Huneker
A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music …
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
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John C Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
Life of St. Vincent de Paul
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Frances Alice Forbes
Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 - 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when…
The Life of Alfred the Great
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Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser
A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…
Memoir of Jane Austen
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James Edward Austen-Leigh
"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the …
The Colored Cadet at West Point
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Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…