Biography & Autobiography
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Ida M. Tarbell
Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…
Shri Dnyaneshwar
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William James McGlothlin
An overview of the life of Shri Dnyaneshwar and his devoted family. Dnyaneshwar was a 13th-century Indian poet and yogin. He commentated the…
Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana
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Charles Hughes
"It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my kn…
A Group of Famous Women
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Edith Horton
It is a remarkable fact that little attention, if any, has been given to the study of the careers of distinguished women, and the question h…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket
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Richard Gorton Barlow
R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the b…
Catharine de Bora
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John G. Morris
"There are many interesting and characteristic incidents in the domestic life of Luther which are not found in biographies of the great…
Life of Henry David Thoreau
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Henry Salt
Henry David Thoreau was a fascinating man, contributing vast amounts of information on nature history, leading the way for environmentalism.…
Milton
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…
Charles II
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Osmund Airy
This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am a…
You Can't Win
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Jack Black
'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…
Daughter of the Sky
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Paul L. Briand, Jr.
This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great he…
Biographies In Sound
Read by Fred Allen
Fred Allen narrates "Magnificent Rogue: The Adventures of W. C. Fields", featuring clips from many famous personalities recounting…
Hector Berlioz
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Herbert Francis Peyser
How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of…
An Alabama Student
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Sir William Osler
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
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William Alexander MacKay
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
A Book of Sibyls
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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …
The Life of Washington
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John James Marshall
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…