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Good Stories for Great Birthdays

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Frances Jenkins Olcott


"Here are over 200 stories celebrating 23 great birthdays of patriot-founders and upbuilders of the Republics of both North and South A…

Voyage en Corse

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Gracieux Faure


La Corse, cette île de la mer Méditerrannée, nous fait immédiatement penser à la nature indomptée, …

The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

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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…

Les quarante fauteuils de l'Académie Française 1634-1886

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Charles Barthelémy


Depuis ses débuts en cercle de neuf amis, ensuite organisée et élargie sous la tutelle du cardinal de Richelieu en 1634…

Ben King's Verse

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Benjamin King


This is a volume of Benjamin King's collected verse, published shortly after his sudden death in 1894. The American humorist was very famous…

An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army

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Flora Sandes


Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

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Ulysses S. Grant


In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…

Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1

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Peter Kropotkin


Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…

Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 2

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Peter Kropotkin


Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 01

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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William Makepeace Thackeray


First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

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François-René de Chateaubriand


This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…

The Memoirs of a White Elephant

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Judith Gautier


"We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. Ther…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II

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François-René de Chateaubriand


Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV

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François-René de Chateaubriand


After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…

Seven Men

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Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

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Samuel Smiles


Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution.…

Biographies In Sound 56 05 15 Recollections At Thirty



H. V. Kaltenborn narrates "A Salute to Network Radio on its 30th Anniversary," and tells of its history with clips from programs s…

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus


The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 12…

The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 6

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Agnes Strickland


The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

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