Biography & Autobiography
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 12…
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist
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Vincent Van Gogh
“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but…
Chapters from my Autobiography
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Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He or…
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time sp…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years af…
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
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James Cook
Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita …
My Inventions and Other Works
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Nikola Tesla
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these wo…
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
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Fanny Kelly
"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon eve…
Stories of Great Composers for Children
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Thomas Tapper
This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childho…
The Escaping Club
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A. J. Evans
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…
Saint Francis of Assisi
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Johannes Jorgensen
Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day,…
The Atrocities of the Pirates
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Aaron Smith
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…
Famous Men of Rome
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John Henry Haaren
Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for children. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)
Peter the Great
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Jacob Abbott
There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russia…
The Story of Napoleon
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …
Famous Men of Greece
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John Henry Haaren
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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Giacomo Casanova
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
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St. Ignatius Loyola
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 Soc…