Biography & Autobiography
Les quarante fauteuils de l'Académie Française 1634-1886
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Charles Barthelémy
Depuis ses débuts en cercle de neuf amis, ensuite organisée et élargie sous la tutelle du cardinal de Richelieu en 1634…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives
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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
My First Book (Version 2)
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Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…
Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds
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Frederick J. Cross
In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV
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Justin Mccarthy
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
The Life of Washington, Volume 5
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John James Marshall
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Orville J. Victor
Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…
Last of the Great Scouts
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Helen Cody Wetmore
A biographical account of the boy who became "Buffalo Bill" written by his sister. A wide variety of experiences from his first jo…
The Nobel Prize in 1904
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The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…
Henry James At Work
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Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology
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Frederick Adams Woods
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
William Shatner Julius Caesar To Captain Kirk
One of Montreal's most famous sons started his career playing Shakespeare at Stratford back in the day when the festival was housed in …
Jerry McAuley: His Life and Work
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Jerry Mcauley
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in…
Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
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Ludwig van Beethoven and Ludwig Van Beethoven
This book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven arranged by topic and followed by quotations by Beethoven about the to…
Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books
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Edward Francis Harkins
The purpose of this book is to renew an intimate acquaintance with the women whom the American reading public regards as favorites, and to …
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
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James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…