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By: Kate Dickinson Sweetser (-1939) | |
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Ten American Girls From History | |
Ten Boys from History |
By: May Sinclair (1863-1946) | |
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Journal of Impressions in Belgium
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders. Her experiences in the Great War, brief and traumatizing as they were, permeated the prose and poetry she wrote after this time. Witness of great human pain and tragedy, Sinclair was in serious danger of her life on multiple occasions. This journal makes no attempt to be anything more than a journal: a lucid, simple, heart-breaking account of war at first hand. | |
By: William Charles Henry Wood (1864-1947) | |
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Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray |
By: George Hart (1839-1891) | |
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The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators |
By: James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) | |
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Short Studies on Great Subjects | |
Bunyan |
By: William C. Scully (1855-1943) | |
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Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer |
By: Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) | |
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Memoirs |
By: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) | |
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Musical Memories |
By: Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) | |
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Four American Leaders |
By: Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1876-1961) | |
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Black-Bearded Barbarian
A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. |
By: John Marshall (1755-1835) | |
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The Life Of George Washington |
By: Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) | |
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Hugh Memoirs of a Brother |
By: George Saintsbury (1845-1933) | |
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Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series |
By: Harry A. Lewis | |
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Hidden Treasures
"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor." A selection of mini-biographies teaches us how some successful men have overcome odds to make their mark on history. |
By: Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907) | |
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Behind the Scenes
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventually worked for Mary Lincoln. It is a fascinating book, filled with many recollections of her own life and her interactions with the Lincolns and other members of the government elite. |
By: Jeanie Lang | |
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The Story of General Gordon |
By: Alpheus S. Packard (1839-1905) | |
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Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work |
By: Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) | |
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Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series | |
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice |
By: Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) | |
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Erasmus and the Age of Reformation |
By: Edward Singleton Holden (1846-1914) | |
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Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works |
By: John Forster (1812-1876) | |
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The Life of Charles Dickens |
By: Maurice Walter Brockwell (1869-1958) | |
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Leonardo Da Vinci |
By: William Still (1821-1902) | |
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Underground Railroad, Part 1
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still. "Dear Sir:—For most of the years I have lived, the escape of fugitives from slavery, and their efforts to baffle the human and other bloodhounds who tracked them, formed the romance of American History. That romance is now ended, and our grandchildren will hardly believe its leading incidents except on irresistible testimony. I rejoice that you are collecting and presenting that testimony, and heartily wish you a great success... |
By: Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (c.1705-1775) | |
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A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, also known as James Albert, (born ca. 1705 - 1775) was a freed slave and autobiographer. His autobiography is considered the first published by an African in Britain. Gronniosaw's autobiography was produced in Kidderminster in the late 1760s. Its full title is A Narrative of the Most remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, As related by himself. It was the first Slave narrative in the English language. Published in Bath in 1772, it gives a vivid account of Gronniosaw's life, from his capture in Africa through slavery to a life of poverty in Colchester and Kidderminster... |
By: Jacqueline Overton (1887-) | |
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The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls |
By: Louis Constant Wairy (1778-1845) | |
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Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon | |
Mémoires de Constant |
By: David Lindsay Crawford (1871-1940) | |
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Donatello, by Lord Balcarres |
By: Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) | |
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army | |
The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Volume I., Part 1 |
By: Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947) | |
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Old Love Stories Retold |
By: George T. Ferris (1840-) | |
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Great Violinists And Pianists | |
Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens | |
Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag |
By: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) | |
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My Own Story
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. She was widely criticized for her militant tactics, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain. In her autobiography, written and published just as the Great War was breaking out, Pankhurst tells of her experiences in fighting for women's rights. |
By: Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts (1832-1914) | |
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Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief |
By: Isaac Disraeli (1766-1848) | |
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Calamities and Quarrels of Authors |
By: Henry Brodribb Irving (1870-1919) | |
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A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
By: Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922) | |
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Milton | |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
By: Mary Stoyell Stimpson | |
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The Child's Book of American Biography
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people. (from the Forward of the text) |
By: Addison B. Poland | |
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Famous Men of the Middle Ages |
By: Thomas A. Janvier (1849-1913) | |
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Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements |
By: Joseph Kossuth Dixon (1856-1926) | |
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The Vanishing Race |
By: Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909) | |
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By Canoe and Dog-Train |
By: William S. B. Mathews (1837-1912) | |
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The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations |
By: Arthur L. Hayward | |
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Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences |
By: Clement King Shorter (1857-1926) | |
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Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle |
By: James Huneker (1860-1921) | |
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Chopin: The Man and His Music
A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker. |
By: Francis Thompson (1859-1907) | |
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Shelley; an essay |
By: George Iles (1852-1942) | |
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Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors
The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This fascinating collection of perspectives on acting is taken from biographies and autobiographies of American, British and Italian actors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. John Wilkes Booth, an actor and the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, is recalled by his brother, the great actor Edwin Booth, and by acclaimed actress Clara Morris. -- Lee Smalley |
By: St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1553) | |
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The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus. It, more than any other work, gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few works in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and St. Augustine, impart such a knowledge of the soul.The saint in his narrative always refers to himself in the third person, and this mode of speech has here been retained. Many persons who have neither the time, nor, perhaps, the inclination, to read larger works, will read, we trust, with pleasure and profit this autobiography... |
By: George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914) | |
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Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War |
By: Lewis E. Jahns | |
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The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 |
By: Ernest Renan (1823-1892) | |
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The Life of Jesus |
By: Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) | |
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 | |
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 |