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Between the Larch-woods and the Weir

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Flora Klickmann


Flora Klickmann, a writer for the Girls' Own Paper and The Flower-Patch Among the Hills, brings us another charming volume, combining nature…

The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself

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Cole Younger


Autobiography of Cole Younger, American Civil War veteran and member of the Jesse James gang. Cole Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raide…

Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman

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Martha Summerhayes


"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories abou…

Behind the Scenes

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Elizabeth Keckley


This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Brief Lives Volume I

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John Aubrey


A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Brief Lives Volume II

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John Aubrey


Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Over Every Hill

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; …

Pierre Curie

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Marie Curie


This biography of the noted French physicist Pierre Curie was written by his wife, the renowned physicist Marie Curie. In it, she not only c…

Go Plant A Tree

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude&quo…

The Confessions (Pusey translation)

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Saint Augustine of Hippo


The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography e…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

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Booker T. Washington


Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

The Story of My Life and Work

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Booker T. Washington


The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser t…

Biographia Literaria

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …

Three Things

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Her final words in her autobiography The Worlds and I: "From this mighty storehouse (of God, and the hierarchies of Spiritual Beings) w…

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)

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Booker T. Washington


Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the posi…

Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

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Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Version 2)

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Benjamin Franklin


In Benjamin Franklin's lifetime, he kept good record of his life and travels, and although Franklin was never a president, he still plays a …

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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James Weldon Johnson


Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …

Billy Whiskers, the Autobiography of a Goat

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Frances Trego Montgomery


This delightful children's story can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike! A mischievous goat, Billy Whiskers, gets into trouble so often tha…

A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography

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Clifford Whittingham Beers


At twenty-four, Clifford Beers, Yale graduate and son of an old New England family, was confined to a mental institution, where he experienc…

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