Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…
The Normans in European History
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …
The Life of Saint Monica
This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason t…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
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 Life of Honorable William F. Cody
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…
Oscar Wilde
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…
My School Days
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
Wild Life on the Rockies
"This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twent…
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…
Iola Leroy
This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …
Life of St. Vincent de Paul
Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 - 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when…
A History of California
If you have ever wondered why Spain (and not Japan, which was so so much better positioned to do it) was first to “settle” the Golden State,…
Radioactive Substances
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…
Roughing It in the Bush
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englis…
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of 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…
The Life of Saint Macrina
The poignant biography of Saint Macrina, by her brother, Saint Gregory of Nyssa. (The Reader)“The use of the word "philosophy" to …
King Alfred of England
The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
A religious autobiography of unsurpassed interest, the simple confidential tone of which "revolutionized the popular estimate of its au…
Clotel
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…
Toussaint L’Ouverture
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…