Biography & Autobiography
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Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own WordsBeethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words This little book came into existence as if it were by chance. The author had devoted himself for a long time to the study of Beethoven and carefully scrutinized all manner of...
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Fabre, Poet of ScienceFabre, Poet of Science Here I offer to the public the life of Jean-Henri Fabre; at once an admiring commentary upon his work and an act of pious homage, such as ought to be offered, while he lives, to the great naturalist who is...
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The Life of George BorrowThe Life of George BorrowDuring the whole of Borrows manhood there was probably only one period when he was unquestionably happy in his work and content with his surroundings. He may almost be said to have concentrated into the seven years (18331840) that he...
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The Boys' Life of Mark TwainThe Boys' Life of Mark TwainThis is the story of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, reared almost without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-day have no existence, yet who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attain honorary degrees from...
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Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysComplete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they...
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My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives of its...
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Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles,...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Elsewhere we literary folk are apt to be such a common lot, with tendencies here and there to be a shabby lot; we arrive from all sorts of unexpected holes and corners of the earth, remote, obscure;...
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The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)We had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in Old Cambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened...
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Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)I have already spoken of my earliest meetings with Lowell at Cambridge when I came to New England on a literary pilgrimage from the West in 1860. I saw him more and more after I went to...
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Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Being the wholly literary spirit I was when I went to make my home in Cambridge, I do not see how I could well have been more content if I had found myself in the Elysian Fields with...
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A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It is doubtful whether the survivor of any order of things finds compensation in the privilege, however undisputed by his contemporaries, of recording his memories of it. This is, in the first two or three instances, a...
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My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It was in the little office of James T. Fields, over the bookstore of Ticknor & Fields, at 124 Tremont Street, Boston, that I first met my friend of now forty-four years, Samuel L. Clemens. Mr. Fields...
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Theodore Roosevelt: An AutobiographyTheodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII APPENDIX A APPENDIX B CHAPTER VIII APPENDIX A APPENDIX B CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII APPENDIX CHAPTER XIV APPENDIX CHAPTER XV...
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Drake's Great ArmadaDrake's Great Armada Nearly five years elapsed between Drake's return from his Famous Voyage and the despatch of the formidable armament commemorated in the following pages. During the last of these years the march of events had been remarkably rapid. Gilbert, who had been...
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Letters to Dead AuthorsLetters to Dead Authors Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the editor's kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a...
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The Confessions of St. AugustineThe Confessions of St. Augustine Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness...
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Old Love Stories RetoldOld Love Stories RetoldPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. This should be the first thing...
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RashiRashiThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the texts. As...
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In the WildernessIn the Wilderness So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the bear, it is necessary to make a plain statement of the facts. Besides, it...
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