Biography & Autobiography
The Negro in Literature and Art
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…
Last of the Great Scouts
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Helen Cody Wetmore
A biographical account of the boy who became "Buffalo Bill" written by his sister. A wide variety of experiences from his first jo…
Henry James At Work
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Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Orville J. Victor
Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…
My First Book
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Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…
Beneath the Banner
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Frederick J. Cross
In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…
A History of Our Own Times
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Justin Mccarthy
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty
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Frederick Adams Woods
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
William Shatner Julius Caesar To Captain Kirk
One of Montreal's most famous sons started his career playing Shakespeare at Stratford back in the day when the festival was housed in a ten…
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
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James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
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Ludwig van Beethoven and Ludwig Van Beethoven
This book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven arranged by topic and followed by quotations by Beethoven about the to…
Jerry McAuley
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Jerry Mcauley
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in…
Stories of the Saints
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Vera Charlesworth Barclay
Once upon a time there were fifteen Cubs who spent nine wonderful days in camp. They were London Cubs, and the camp was on a beautiful littl…
Our Southern Highlanders
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Horace Kephart
Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …
Thomas Carlyle
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G. K. Chesterton
A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…
David Wark Griffith
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Robert Edgar Long
An authorized biography of D.W. Griffith, the self-proclaimed "Father of Filmmaking." Written in collaboration with the director,…
Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books
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Edward Francis Harkins
The purpose of this book is to renew an intimate acquaintance with the women whom the American reading public regards as favorites, and to …
The Life of Clara Barton
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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…
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald
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Henry Richard Fox Bourne and Henry Fox Bourne
Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He start…
The Life of Washington
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John James Marshall
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …