Biography & Autobiography
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 2
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence t…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
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John Dickinson
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and…
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
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William Cooper Nell
A study of the black patriots of the American Revolution, with introductions by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wendell Phillips.
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3)
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John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…
Gauss zum Gedächtnis
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Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr Von Waltershausen
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (* 30. April 1777 in Braunschweig, † 23. Februar 1855 in Göttingen) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten M…
Life of Charles Dickens
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Sir Frank T. Marzials
Early biography of Charles Dickens published just 17 years after Dickens' death. Summary by Colleen McMahon
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States
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Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
The Life of David Brainerd
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Jonathan Edwards
A biography about David Brainerd, one of the first missionaries to the Native Americans, using excerpts from his diary and journals. This wo…
Sir Francis Drake
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Julian Corbett
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)…
Shakespeare Identified
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J. Thomas Looney
That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
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Dewitt C. Peters
Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide - an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literatu…
Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic
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Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
While there are many general histories of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the Oxford historian, Charles Oman, writes that his li…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask
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Alexandre Dumas
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People
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Ethel T. Raymond
Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk …
Nero
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Jacob Abbott
Nero tells the life story of one of the most infamous of Roman Emperors. - Summary by Deon Gines
Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier
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Frances A. Fuller Victor
This lively book follows the adventures of mountain man Joe Meek, from his joining the Rocky Mountain Fur Company trapping expedition in the…