Memoirs

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777

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Nicholas Cresswell


Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…

Six Years at the Russian Court

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Magaretta Eagar


From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…

На огневых рубежах

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Карлов Фёдор Васильевич


Автор:  Карлов Фёдор Васильевич Название:  На огневых рубежах Исполнитель:  Карлов Александр Жанр:  Мемуары, военная про…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

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Ward Hill Lamon


Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

Настоящие мемуары гейши

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Ивасаки Минеко


Настоящие мемуары гейши Слишком много тайн окутывает понятие «гейша»… История жизни Минеко Ивасаки, одной из самых легендарных …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

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Samuel Pepys


Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…

Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger

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Walter Bates


Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

Confessions of Two Brothers

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John Cowper Powys


A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri F…

Космонавт № 34. От лучины до пришельцев

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Гречко Георгий


Автор:  Гречко Георгий Название:  Космонавт № 34. От лучины до пришельцев Исполнитель:  Леонов Андрей Жанр:  Биографии и…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

Why Crime Does Not Pay

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Sophie Lyons


The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…

A Winter of Content

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Laura Lee Davidson


A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…

Christmas Under Three Flags

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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox


This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …

A Wheel Within A Wheel

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Frances E. Willard


Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women's education, suffrage and empowerment, a…

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…

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Charles Todd Quintard


Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

The Life of John Ruskin

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William Gershom Collingwood


W. G. Collingwood became a student of John Ruskin in 1872 when he started his study in University College, Oxford. For many years he dedicat…

Прощай, оружие!

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Хэмингуэй Эрнест


Год выпуска: 2003 Автор: Хэмингуэй Эрнест Исполнитель: Балакирев Александр Жанр: Военные мемуары Издательство: Ardis серия "XX век Зару…

Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

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Laurence Oliphant


Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spir…

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie


Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

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