Biography & Autobiography

Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform

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Albert Bigelow Paine


"William Jesse "Bill" McDonald (1852 - 1918) in the 1880s served as a deputy sheriff in Wood County. After moving to Hardeman…

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss

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George Prentiss


This memoir was undertaken at the request of many of Mrs. Prentiss' old and most trusted friends, who felt that the story of her life should…

The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…

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Frank Thomas Bullen


The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…

The Story of Edison and The Wonders of Electricity

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Frank Mundell


Despite not having attended conventional school for more than a few months during his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison received a good groundin…

Le Petit Nord

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Anne Maclanahan Grenfell


A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…

The Life of Washington, Volume 2

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John James Marshall


Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…

Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

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Charles George Harper


"Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. Willia…

The Life of Washington, Volume 3

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John James Marshall


Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…

A Journey Round My Room

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Xavier De Maistre


Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…

Dr. John Dee: Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer

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G. M. Hort


A short biographical sketch of Dr. John Dee (born 1527), the English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. “In an…

John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses a…

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Franz Von Dingelstedt


This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…

Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

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Horace Walpole


Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…

The Long Ago

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Jacob William Wright and J. W. Wright


Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

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George Francis Robert Henderson


Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War is a book combining a biography and military history of Confederate Lt. General Thomas Jonathan…

The Early Hanoverians

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Edward Ellis Morris


In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

The Empresses of Constantinople

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Joseph Martin McCabe and Joseph Martin Mccabe


In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies close…

Richard Strauss

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Herbert Francis Peyser


There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…

Builders of United Italy

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Rupert S. Holland


Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…

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