Biography & Autobiography

Borden of Yale '09: "The Life that Counts"

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Mrs. Howard Taylor


Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…

Recollections of Johannes Brahms

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Albert Hermann Dietrich and Joseph Victor Widmann


Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a friend of Johannes Brahms and the first part of this book includes vivid recollect…

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 2

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Diogenes Laertius


Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers provides a wealth information about the lives and teachings of ancient Greek thinkers. Desp…

My Musical Life

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Walter Damrosch


This is the autobiography of the Prussian-born American conductor Walter Damrosch. It includes dozens of anecdotes about many of the great m…

The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers

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Lydia Hoyt Farmer


The aim of this book is to give in as concise manner as possible, consistent with graphic narration and biographical completeness, the most …

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol III

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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…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

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William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

Story-Lives of Great Musicians

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Francis Jameson Rowbotham


Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…

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