Biography & Autobiography
Ingersoll on ROBERT BURNS, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 2
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Robert Burns and Robert G. Ingersoll
This is a duet by Michele Fry, reading Ingersoll's essay, and Kay Williams, an authentic Scotsman, reading Burns' poetry. Robert Burns (25 J…
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…
Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work; Vol. 1
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George Thomas Bettany
Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. From the birth of the renowned Edinburgh School of Medicine, to William H…
King Edward I of England: Three Essays
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Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I (1239 – 1307), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The eldest son of Henry III, Edward was involved from an early age in the p…
Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook
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Eddie Guerin
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…
Подлинная история «Майора Вихря»
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Бондаренко Александр
Подлинная история «Майора Вихря» Он вступил во Вторую мировую войну 1 сентября 1939 года и в первые дни войны сбил три &…
Маршал Рокоссовский
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Корольченко Анатолий
Маршал Рокоссовский От автора: Впервые о генерале Рокоссовском я узнал зимой 1941 года в Сталинграде. Там, в поселках завода «Баррика…
Время. События. Люди. Великие российские актеры
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Коллектив авторов
Время. События. Люди. Великие российские актеры Наши прославленные мастера сцены и экрана давно признаны во всем мире, а вклад их в …
Жизнь Пушкина
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Чулков Георгий
Жизнь Пушкина Автор настоящей книги, известный символист Г.И.Чулков, не столько интересовался литературными реминисценциями, сколько самой …
Марина Цветаева. Над бездной
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Поликовская Людмила
Марина Цветаева. Над бездной В радиоспектакле, построенном на письмах, стихах, дневниковых записях поэтессы Марины Цветаевой, рассказывает…
Among the Great Masters of the Drama
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Walter Rowlands
In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…
Anglo-American Memories
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George Washburn Smalley
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…
Four Masters of Etching
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Frederick Wedmore
Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artists of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour H…
Oliver Cromwell
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The following work gives within a short compass a history of Oliver Cromwell from a biographical point of view. The text has been revised b…
Alfred the Great
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A. E. Mckilliam
A good direct life, with considerable on the Danish invasion and so, usable in connection with history classes in the upper grammar grades a…
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography - Artists and Composers
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George Iles
Artists and Composers is Volume 5 of Library of Little Masterpieces of Autobiography in Six Volumes published in 1913, and includes autobiog…
Fact Stranger than Fiction
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John Patterson Green
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
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George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 06
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol II
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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…