Memoirs

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662

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Samuel Pepys


Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023

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Various


A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum

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Herman Charles Merivale


Fully titled My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by a Sane Patient, this memoir describes its author's, Herman Merivale's, experience in one…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

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Benvenuto Cellini


Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

A Surgeon In Arms

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Robert James Manion


Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…

Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

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Donald Shaw


This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of educ…

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

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Susanna Moodie


As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

Notes of a War Correspondent

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Richard Harding Davis


Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African …

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…

Como e porque sou romancista

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José De Alencar


Como e porque sou romancista é um texto incompleto, escrito por José de Alencar em 1873 e publicado em 1893, em que o autor co…

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

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Watkin Tench


Watkin Tench was an officer of the British Marines in the First Fleet to settle NSW. This is an interesting and entertaining account of his …

I, Mary MacLane

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Mary Maclane


Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a yo…

Fünfzig Jahre Museumsarbeit

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Wilhelm Von Bode


Wilhelm von Bode war ein bedeutender deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Museumsfachmann und gilt als der Mitbegründer des modernen Museumswe…

From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life

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Peter Randolph


Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying…

Kinderen uit m'n Klas

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Paulina Jacoba Cohen-De Vries


Serie portretjes van kinderen op een volksschool begin jaren '20, eerder verschenen in de NRC.Voorwoord bij de 1e druk: "Niet zonder sc…

My Reminiscences

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Rabindranath Tagore


These Reminiscences were written and published by the Author in his fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and America…

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

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George Washington Plunkitt


"I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.", George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according …

On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

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Samuel Gamble Bayne


This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

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Margaret Herschel


For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…

The History of the Suez Canal

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Ferdinand de Lesseps


A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is…

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