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
Soren Kierkegaard
The writings listed here represent books about Soren Kierkegaard. A fragment of his work, On the Dedication to "That Single Individual&…
Science and Hypothesis
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…
The Life of Anthony
The Life Of St. Anthony the Great.
Moths of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, specializing in…
The Life of Charlemagne
Notker's work consists of anecdotes relating chiefly to the Emperor Charlemagne and his family. It was written for Charles the Fat, great-gr…
My Bondage and My Freedom
The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self elevation under the most adverse circum…
Representative Men
A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. Th…
Nehemiah
The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the wal…
Hidden Treasures
Hidden Treasures offers a collection of inspiring mini-biographies that illuminate the journeys of notable figures who rose from humble begi…
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
Behind the Scenes
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…
A Crown for Joanna
She was born a princess, heir to her father’s kingdom of Portugal, and she might at will have reigned from almost any throne in Europe. But …
Foundations
Essentially the sequel to The Life of St. Teresa, Teresa recounts the foundations of the Discalced Carmelite monasteries in Spain, both for …
The Sins of Hollywood
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…
Neighbors
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…
John Stuart Mill
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…
Lord Kitchener
In this insightful essay, G. K. Chesterton explores the complex life and legacy of Lord Kitchener, a figure whose military prowess and polit…
The Lives of the Queens of England
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…