Biography & Autobiography

Woman on the American Frontier

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William Worthington Fowler


Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised ch…

The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 5

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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…

Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

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Cyrus Townsend Brady


Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a miss…

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 1)

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John Hay


This is the biography of Abraham Lincoln, written by two of his private secretaries. (Summary by ashleighjane)

The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Charlotte Brontë was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters who have become standards of English literatu…

Selected Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven

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Ludwig Van Beethoven


A selection of Beethoven's letters from the compilation by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800-1877) and Ludwig Nohl (1831-1885), and transl…

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…

The Man Who Fought the Devil

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Eva K. Betz


Jean Marie Vianney always found it hard to learn. In fact, he made history by receiving a zero as his examination mark after his first year …

Moral letters to Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca the Younger’s letters to his friend, Lucilius Junior, appear to have been written with a broad audience in mind. These letters introd…

Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…

A Young Girl's Diary

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Anonymoustranslated Bycedar Paul


The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…

Days with the Great Composers

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May Gillington Byron


An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, bu…

The Pirates Own Book

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Charles Ellms


Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers.

The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

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Unknown


Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admir…

The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars

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Anonymous


Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, T.O.S.F., (8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859), commonly known in English as St John Vianney, was a French parish pries…

The Prelude

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William Wordsworth


Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth pu…

The Life of St. Teresa

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Frances Alice Forbes


Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 – 4 October …

The Letters of Mark Twain, Complete

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Mark Twain


These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A …

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Francis Fisher Browne


This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper,…

Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

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Frank Harris


Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…

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