Biography & Autobiography
Life and Times of Joseph Warren
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Richard Frothingham, Jr.
Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil…
Stories of the Lives of Noble Women
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W. H. Davenport Adams
The object of the present volume is to illustrate from the Lives of Noble Women those higher qualities which elevate the character of the se…
Hawthorne
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Henry James
A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…
Robert Browning
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G. K. Chesterton
This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…
A Daughter of the Seine
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Jeanette Eaton
This biography of Madame Roland was written for young adults but can be equally enjoyed by adult readers. Madame Roland was a key figure in …
Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer
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Dexter C. Bloomer
As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …
The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers
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Lydia Hoyt Farmer
The aim of this book is to give in as concise manner as possible, consistent with graphic narration and biographical completeness, the most …
The Story of Pocahontas
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Charles Dudley Warner
This is a historical account of the early years of Pocahontas. She had a significant role in the early interactions between the Indigenous p…
Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic
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James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
"The purpose of this volume is to tell the story of Cicero's life, and at the same time to set forth from his writings a presentation o…
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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Felix Mendelssohn
A collection of the letters which Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy wrote while in Italy and Switzerland. Mendelssohn, a multifaceted talent of th…
The Life that Counts
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Mrs. Howard Taylor
Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…
James B. Eads
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Louis How
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…
Recollections of Johannes Brahms
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Albert Hermann Dietrich and Joseph Victor Widmann
Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a friend of Johannes Brahms and the first part of this book includes vivid recollect…
My Musical Life
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Walter Damrosch
This is the autobiography of the Prussian-born American conductor Walter Damrosch. It includes dozens of anecdotes about many of the great m…
Dr. Benjamin Rush
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Dr. Benjamin Rush
An autobiographical account of Dr. Benjamin Rush, written by himself, containing his views on many subjects including medicine, the American…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed
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William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
An Emigrant's Home Letters
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Sir Henry Parkes
Letters written by Henry Parkes to his family in Birmingham, England as he made his way to London and then to Sydney. The letters were gathe…
J.S. Bach
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Albert Schweitzer
Second volume of an analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious wor…
Lapérouse
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Ernest Scott
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker