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By: William Godwin (1756-1836) | |
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Lives of the Necromancers |
By: William Worthington Fowler (1833-1881) | |
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Woman on the American Frontier
Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised children, and much more. This book is full of mini-biographies of women in many places, and many ages- each chapter telling about a different subject. |
By: Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) | |
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The Confession of a Child of the Century
In this autobiographic novel, an aging man reflects on his past. We are witness to the relationships he has along the way, his mistakes, and finally- in the most unexpected and honorable way- the sudden developement of his belief in god. | |
By: Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) | |
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Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography |
By: Romain Rolland (1866-1944) | |
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Musicians of To-Day |
By: Annie Besant (1847-1933) | |
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Annie Besant
In her autobiography, Annie Besant poignantly writes of her search for the truth of what she believed in, leaving Christianity behind to embrace Atheism, and ultimately finding her peace in Theosophy, which she became interested in after meeting Helena Blavatsky. She moved to India to better study Theosophical ideas and this is where she made her home until her death. She was a gifted orator and writer, often speaking and writing on her religious beliefs, as well as women's rights and social reform... |
By: Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) | |
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American Men of Action
In this book, Burton Egbert Stevenson writes a brief biography of some of the most noteworthy men in American history. He begins at the very beginning of the history of America with Christopher Columbus and proceeds forward with the story of people who made America what it is today by their respective vocations. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of the subjects started in poverty and excelled financially and in stature.He makes something that could be very dull, a very readable and enjoyable book. | |
American Men of Mind
“American Men of Mind” is a collection of short biographies of men of note in various disciplines. It is an absorbing collection of short biographies of men who made a difference in American history; most beginning life in very humble circumstances, both in the United States and in foreign countries. Although “men” is mentioned in the title, Mr. Stevenson also relates biographies of several women.This is a most interesting read.(William Tomcho) |
By: Jacob William Wright | |
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The Long Ago
Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. |
By: Anne MacLanahan Grenfell (1885-1938) | |
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Le Petit Nord
A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at the orphanage in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. |
By: Edward S. Ellis (1840-1916) | |
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The Life of Kit Carson
Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was associated or who closely studied his character. He was more than hunter, trapper, guide, Indian agent and Colonel in the United States Army....His lot was cast on the extreme western frontier, where, when but a youth, he earned the respect of the tough and frequently lawless men with whom he came in contact. Integrity, bravery, loyalty to friends, marvelous quickness... |
By: Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) | |
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Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch |
By: Humphry Ward (1851-1920) | |
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A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 |
By: Asa Don Dickinson (1876-1960) | |
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Stories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and Reformers | |
Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists |
By: F. Max Müller (1823-1900) | |
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My Autobiography A Fragment |
By: Charles F. Horne (1870-1942) | |
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Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History | |
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History | |
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1
Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by Charles F. Horne, a prolific American author who wrote mainly history. The focus of Volume 1 is “Soldiers and Sailors”. | |
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History | |
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History |
By: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | |
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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Secretary of State. Having no legitimate children, his heir was his third cousin (another Philip) whom he adopted. Although known as a hard, calculating man, he is most well known for his letters to his natural son (i.e., illegitimate son) (also called Philip). When Philip died in 1768, the letters are addressed to his grandchildren (Philip’s two sons, Charles, and, yes, Philip!)... |
By: Charles James Lever (1806-1872) | |
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Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General |
By: Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) | |
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Autobiography of a Yogi |
By: John Morley (1838-1923) | |
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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 | |
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre |
By: William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) | |
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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs
This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years 1846-1848. While many of his colleagues saw action in the Mexican-American War, Sherman performed administrative duties in the captured territory of California. Along with fellow Lieutenants Henry Halleck and Edward Ord, Sherman embarked from New York on the 198-day journey around Cape Horn aboard the converted sloop USS Lexington... |
By: Sidney Lee (1859-1926) | |
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A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles |
By: Sarah Knowles Bolton | |
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Lives of Girls Who Became Famous
This book is a collection of short biographies of notable women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Florence Nightingale, and many others. |
By: Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) | |
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Son of the Middle Border
In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. . . . It is the poet who sees the vast scale of human struggle with nature or the things she will withhold unless they are forced from her by man's tireless toil and mighty mechanism, and in the vision he knows a battle-joy as distinctive of this Son of the Middle Border as his fidelity to the sordid and squalid details of the campaign, or his exultation of the beauty of the West which he has so passionately hated and finally so passionately loves... | |
A Daughter of the Middle Border |
By: Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) | |
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Men of the Bible |
By: William Hazlitt (1778-1830) | |
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Liber Amoris
Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of Hazlitt's infatuation with his landlords daughter. Hazlitt was middle aged and she young and pretty, a bit of a coquette from the sound of it. It turned out badly for Hazlitt and the book tells the story of this doomed love. Critics have always been divided about the merit of the piece. Even those who see its merit often feel more comfortable with his polished literary works, and perhaps rightly so... |
By: Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) | |
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Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country |
By: Lucy Madox Rossetti (1843-1894) | |
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Mrs. Shelley
I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving and truthful research on all the subjects surrounding the life of Mrs.Shelley. -Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti Mrs. Shelley is a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, author of Frankenstein and other works, wife of Percy Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin who penned The Vindication of the Rights of Women, and daughter of William Godwin, a philosopher and novelist... |
By: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) | |
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James Watt
This biography of the inventor James Watt covers his early years, successes and failures, and legacy. | |
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and emigrated to America in 1848. Among his many accomplishments and philanthropic works, he was an author, having written, besides this autobiography, Triumphant Democracy (1886; rev. ed. 1893), The Gospel of Wealth, a collection of essays (1900), The Empire of Business (1902), and Problems of To-day (1908)]. Although this autobiography was written in 1919, it was published posthumously in 1920. |
By: Robert Southey (1774-1843) | |
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The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson |
By: William Allan Neilson (1869-1946) | |
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The Facts About Shakespeare |
By: Frank Henderson | |
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Six Years in the Prisons of England
A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fellow prisoners came to be in prison, and his ideas about the penal system, its downfalls and ways to improve it. The reader can see similarities to the problems we still have in regarding "criminals" today. (Introduction by Elaine Webb) |
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 |