Biography & Autobiography

Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume II

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Francis Asbury


As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Method…

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

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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…

Richelieu: A Tale of France

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George Payne Rainsford James


Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…

My Actor-Husband

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Anonymous


In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and stri…

Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect

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Lawrence Weaver


This 1923 monograph on the life and work of Sir Christopher Wren was written by Lawrence Weaver, an English architectural writer and editor.…

The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography

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Silas Weir Mitchell


Departing from the usual third person narratives of biographies, this account is told in the first person as the reminiscences of a now reti…

Handel

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Romain Rolland


As Romain Rolland indicates in the preface, this book is a brief sketch of the life and technique of Handel. He provides biographical backgr…

George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania, Books 1–3

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Marin Barleti


This is an early account of the life of George Castriot, Dominus Albaniae; An Albanian princeling and Ottoman military commander who rebelle…

Life of Liszt

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Ludwig Nohl


The Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer, Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886), is still regarded as one of the greatest classical musicians of all …

Twenty Years on Horseback; or, Itinerating in West Virginia

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William Marion Weekley


William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From the au…

Charles James Fox

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Henry Offley Wakeman


Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 1

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Carl Sandburg


A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an acc…

Post Mortems Two: Mere Mortals: Medico-Historical Essays

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Charles Maclaurin


This 1925 collection of extensive essays (a second book following the first of similar title) comprises well written biographies of a few fa…

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