Biography & Autobiography
A Day With Great Poets
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May Gillington Byron
Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us …
The Women Who Make Our Novels
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Grant M. Overton
”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely un…
Women of Achievement
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important w…
Maria Theresa
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James Franck Bright
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Albert Bigelow Paine
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …
Social Life in England
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F. J. Foakes-Jackson
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…
The Life of St. Benedict
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Pope Gregory I
St. Benedict of Nursia was a sixth century monk and founder of monastic communities. His main achievement, the "Rule of St. Benedict,&…
Yankee at Molokai
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Eva K. Betz
As a daring soldier in the Union Army, Ira Dutton earned the respect and affection of the men around him. Handsome and affable, he could hav…
The Story of Garfield
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William Gunion Rutherford
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 br…
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh
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Margaret Duncan Kelly
The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth.…
A Study
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André Gide
This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnot…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV
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Osmund Airy
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
Transformed
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Jerry Mcauley
Jerry McAuley gives a testimony of his transformation from one of the wickedest men to ever live to being saved and a life of helping others…
Palmetto Leaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they…
Six Radical Thinkers
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John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
Being a Boy
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Charles Dudley Warner
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)
The Apostle of Alaska
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John W. Arctander
This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. …
Lincoln, The Lawyer
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Frederick Trevor Hill
This biography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on his practice as a lawyer. (Summary by MaryAnn)
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah
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Beth Ellis
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young woman’s visi…
Walpole
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John Morley
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biograph…