Biography & Autobiography
Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 1
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his famous lecture on SHAKESPEARE as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
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Elizabeth Blackwell
A fascinating account of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She writes of her struggles in being accepted to …
David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology
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James Orr
David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…
When Buffalo Ran
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George Bird Grinnell
"Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed.In s…
Mimosa, Who Was Charmed
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
“This story is true. It tells the eternally new tale of the matchless charm of our Lord Jesus Christ. One look at that loveliness, and, th…
The Valley of Baca: a Record of Suffering and Triumph
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Jennie Smith
Jennie Smith was a 19th-Century Job. At 15 years old, her father's business and finances failed, and he later died of illness, leaving her f…
Robert Louis Stevenson
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G. K. Chesterton
This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitl…
Augustus Caesar and the Organisation of the Empire of Rome
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John Benjamin Firth
There is, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no biography of Augustus Caesar - a most curious fact when one considers the extraordinar…
Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms
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Courtney Ryley Cooper
Annie Oakley was without a doubt the greatest markswomen who ever lived. She was christened Phoebe Ann Mosey but was called Annie from child…
The dogaressas of Venice: The wives of the doges
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Edgcumbe Staley
A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy
William the Third
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Henry Duff Traill
William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …
Captain John Smith
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Captain John Smith is probably best known for his association with the colonization of Virginia from the early days of Jamestown, and his ex…
The Story of George Fox
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Rufus Jones
A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel
Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV
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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
Rise of the Macedonian Empire
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Arthur M. Curteis
Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…
The Diary of a Russian Lady
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Barbara Doukhovsky
This book was not intended to be published, and it is to accident that we owe its appearance.The author, from her childhood, followed affect…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 8
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
Episodes Before Thirty
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Algernon Blackwood
Blackwood wrote this autobiography in his fifties, describing his first thirty years as an almost penniless British adventurer in Canada and…