Biography & Autobiography
Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook
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Eddie Guerin
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…
Among the Great Masters of the Drama
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Walter Rowlands
In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…
Anglo-American Memories
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George Washburn Smalley
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…
Four Masters of Etching
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Frederick Wedmore
Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artists of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour H…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
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George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
The Girls' Book of Famous Queens
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Lydia Hoyt Farmer
In the annals of history, women have played an important part; and among the famous sovereigns of the world, queens, as well as kings, have …
Oliver Cromwell
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The following work gives within a short compass a history of Oliver Cromwell from a biographical point of view. The text has been revised b…
Gleanings in Graveyards
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Horatio Edward Norfolk
Interesting, witty, and unusual epitaphs found in graveyards in England, Wales, Scotland, and more. Feast on this gem:Dr. I. Letsome wrote …
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography
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George Iles
Artists and Composers is Volume 5 of Library of Little Masterpieces of Autobiography in Six Volumes published in 1913, and includes autobiog…
Fact Stranger than Fiction
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John Patterson Green
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…
Great Men and Famous Women
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Charles F. Horne
This is volume 5, Workmen and Heroes, in the series of books about famous people throughout history. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Mémoires d’outre-tombe
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Ce Livre Sur Venise complète les Livres 39 et 40 des Mémoires d’outre-tombe. Nous sommes en septembre 1833. Sont évoqu&…