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By: Humphry Davy (1778-1829) | |
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Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher |
By: G. Holden (Godfrey Holden) Pike (1836-) | |
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From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington |
By: Kate Drumgoold | |
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A Slave Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. | |
By: John Maclean (1851-1928) | |
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William Black The Apostle of Methodism in the Maritime Provinces of Canada |
By: William Gunion Rutherford (1853-1907) | |
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Story of Garfield
A short biography of the 20th U.S. President. Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and elder brother. Before he was elected president in the Republican party he was first elected to Congress in 1862 as Representative of the 19th District of Ohio. Then to the Senate in 1880. His presidency lasted just 200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881. |
By: Nettie Garmer Barker | |
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Kansas Women in Literature |
By: John Denvir (1843-1916) | |
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The Life Story of an Old Rebel |
By: Emma Raymond Pitman | |
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Elizabeth Fry |
By: Stapleton Martin (1846-1922) | |
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Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield |
By: Howard Trueman (1837-1908) | |
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The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers |
By: George T. (George Thomas) Stevens (1832-1921) | |
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Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 |
By: J. (John) Wilkinson (1821-1891) | |
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The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner |
By: Thomas Hanly Ball | |
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Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 |
By: Evans, A. J. (1889-1960) | |
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The Escaping Club
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again finds himself captured, this time first by Arabs and then by Turks. He again manages to escape. A detailed look at the trials faced by Allied POWs during World War I. |
By: Victor MacClure (1887-1963) | |
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She Stands Accused |
By: John Bursey | |
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Dumas Commentary |
By: George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) | |
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Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy |
By: Peter Hume Brown (1849-1918) | |
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The Youth of Goethe |
By: John Hicklin | |
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The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" |
By: P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson (1841-1922) | |
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The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester |
By: Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928) | |
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Priestley in America 1794-1804 | |
James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 |
By: Helen Nicolay (1866-1954) | |
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Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln is a biography with many anecdotes that takes one deeper into the thoughts, personality, and beliefs of the man that was Lincoln. While the title indicates the book is about Lincoln’s life as a boy, the book is a full, if somewhat shortened biography. It is very well written and was a joy to record. One might ask, "Who was Helen Nicolay?" Her father, John George Nicolay, was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and doubtless much of the material comes from his complete biography of Abraham Lincoln. ( |
By: Richard Holt Hutton (1826-1897) | |
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Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) |
By: William Henry Seward (1801-1872) | |
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Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York |
By: Joel Benton (1832-1911) | |
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The Life of Phineas T. Barnum |
By: Mary F. (Mary Frances) Sandars (1864-) | |
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Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings |
By: Edward Osler (1798-1863) | |
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The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth |
By: J. Q. (James Quay) Howard (1836-1912) | |
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The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes |
By: Rupert S. Holland (1878-1952) | |
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Historic Boyhoods
Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, either by character or circumstance, to make his mark on the world. In this work are included 21 biographical sketches of boys who became famous in the arts, affairs of state or exploration and discovery. Historical fact is blended with surmise and imagination to bring these boyhoods alive. |
By: James Harrison | |
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The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 |
By: Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) Smith (1919-) | |
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Men Called Him Master |
By: George H. Devol (1829-1903) | |
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Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi |
By: Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert (1871-1933) | |
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The Mirrors of Washington |
By: Arthur E. Knights | |
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Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life |
By: Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842-1927) | |
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Recollections of My Childhood and Youth |
By: Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid (1848-1927) | |
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Lord John Russell |
By: James J. (James John) Davis (1873-1947) | |
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The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it |
By: William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930) | |
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His Life A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels |
By: Lewis C. (Lewis Conger) Lockwood (1815-1904) | |
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Mary S. Peake The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe |
By: Henry Charles Moore | |
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Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines |
By: Edwin Mims | |
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A Biography of Sidney Lanier |
By: Sydney Waterlow (1878-1944) | |
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Shelley |
By: Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1838-1915) | |
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James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters |
By: Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) | |
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Benjamin Franklin |
By: Adolphus W. Greely (1844-1935) | |
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Explorers and Travellers
“Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some of America’s intrepid explorers. Adolphus W. Greely writes brief but very complete histories of men who risked life and fortune to discover more of our world. A thoroughly enjoyable work if you enjoy exploration and adventure. |
By: William T. Kane (1880-1946) | |
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For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka
Saint Stanislaus Kostka was a 16th century Polish novice in the Society of Jesus. Polish nobleman John Kostka was not pleased with the spiritual inclinations of his second son. He did all he could to discourage Stanislaus’s desire for Christian service. Paul, a brother two years older than Stanslaus, bullied him and tried to lure him into more worldly pursuits. Stanislaus was determined to join the Society of Jesus. To demonstrate his determination, Stanislaus walked the long and dangerous 350 miles from Vienna to Rome... |
By: Walter Elliott (1842-1928) | |
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Life of Father Hecker |
By: Joseph Barker (1806-1875) | |
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Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story |
By: Mowbray Morris (1847-1911) | |
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Claverhouse |
By: Sarah J. Rhea | |
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Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812 |
By: A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly | |
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Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius |
By: James Root Hulbert (1884-1969) | |
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Chaucer's Official Life |
By: F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers (1843-1901) | |
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Wordsworth |
By: Samuel Fea (1872-1943) | |
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Irish Ned The Winnipeg Newsy |
By: Chester Milton Sanford (1872-) | |
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Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades |
By: Benjamin Perley Poore (1820-1887) | |
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Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis |
By: John Campbell Shairp (1819-1885) | |
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Robert Burns |
By: F. G. (Frank Gibbs) Allen (1836-1887) | |
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Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings |
By: Walter Hawkins (1809?-) | |
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Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on |
By: J. Wardle | |
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General Gordon Saint and Soldier |
By: Stephen Sydney Reynolds (1881-1919) | |
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A Poor Man's House |
By: Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew (1834-1928) | |
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My Memories of Eighty Years |
By: Charles E. Morris | |
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The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox |
By: Father Vincent de Paul (1768-1853) | |
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Memoir of Fr. Vincent De Paul; religious of La Trappe |
By: Luther Benson | |
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Fifteen Years in Hell |
By: Henry Venn Lansdown | |
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Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath |
By: John Sherman (1823-1900) | |
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Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. |
By: Henry J. (Henry John) Coke (1827-1916) | |
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Tracks of a Rolling Stone |
By: Henry F. (Henry Frey) Lutz | |
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To Infidelity and Back |
By: Archibald Murray Howe (1848-) | |
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Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold |
By: Seton Churchill | |
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General Gordon A Christian Hero |
By: W. Keith (William Keith) Leask (1857-) | |
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James Boswell Famous Scots Series |
By: John Henry Ingram (1842-1916) | |
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Claimants to Royalty
A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. |
By: William Day Simonds (1855-1920) | |
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Starr King in California |
By: John St. Loe Strachey (1860-1927) | |
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The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography |
By: Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul (1853-1935) | |
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The Life of Froude |
By: F. Jewell | |
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Little Abe, or, the Bishop of Berry Brow Being the Life of Abraham Lockwood |
By: Clara Barrus (1864-1931) | |
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Our Friend John Burroughs |
By: Arabella M. Willson | |
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Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
This book follows the three amazing stories of Adoniram Judson's wives, Ann, Sarah, and Emily. Each wife went through incredible hardships, but each hardship only proved to make them strong women of faith, who despite all difficulties and illnesses, selflessly gave their strength to the sick and needy. Ann Judson followed Her husband from prison to prison, bribing guards so that she could see him and make his condition a little better. They sacrificed lives of ease, with loving families and friends... |
By: Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson (1835-1914) | |
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Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
By: Henry Woodcock (1830-) | |
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The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe |
By: Augustus Bridle (1869-) | |
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The Masques of Ottawa |
By: James Bayard Clark (1869-) | |
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Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway |
By: Lucy Ann Delaney (c. 1830-?) | |
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From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a freeborn black woman who had been kidnapped and sold on the blocks--but escaped while a teenager and eventually sued in court for her freedom. After the Civil War, Delaney spent the rest of her life inspiring other African Americans to take advantage of the new opportunities available to them as a result of their new found freedom, and to constantly strive to improve their lives and the lives of their progeny |
By: Anna Magdalena Johannsen | |
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Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women |
By: Mary L. Day (1836-) | |
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The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl |
By: John A. J. (John Angel James) Creswell (1828-1891) | |
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Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis |
By: Joe Mills (1880-1935) | |
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A Mountain Boyhood |
By: Elisabeth G. Stryker (1856-1936) | |
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Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and also the first Bible Society that began distribution of millions of Bibles around the world. His final mission was to Africa where he helped found what become the country of Liberia. He died on the return voyage at the age of thirty-five. |
By: T. A. (Thomas Aiken) Goodwin (1818-1906) | |
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The Heroic Women of Early Indiana Methodism: An Address Delivered Before the Indiana Methodist Historical Society |
By: S. O. Susag (1862-1952) | |
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Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag |
By: Henry Cowling (1874-1945) | |
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From Lower Deck to Pulpit |
By: William Cooper | |
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A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father |
By: Helen C. Black | |
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Mrs. Hungerford Notable Women Authors of the Day |
By: Mrs. Robert Hoskins (1837-1916) | |
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Clara A. Swain, M.D.
This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." She graduated from the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia and was sent out to India where she eventually came to be in the service of royalty. |
By: Anonymous | |
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An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under circumstances which the writer herself would have regarded as all-commanding, urges that they should now be given to the world; and, so far as is possible with a due regard to the claims of privacy, what is here printed presents the letters as they were first written in their complete form and sequence. From book explaination |
By: Various | |
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My First Book
This is not a children’s book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known writers describe with characteristic style and humour their experiences in producing their first book… and getting it published. The book is profusely illustrated, not only with portraits of the authors, but also with scenes and illustrations from the books discussed. Authors include Jerome K. Jerome, R. L. Stevenson, Bret Harte, Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mary Braddon... |
By: Unknown | |
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Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality. A Defence of The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?” “We are dominated by journalism…. Journalism governs for ever and ever.” One of the nastiest of the British tabloids was founded a year too late to join in the moral panic generated to accompany Oscar Wilde’s court appearances in 1895. Yet there was no shortage of hypocritical journalists posing as moral arbiters to the nation, then as now. This compendium... |