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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 04: Return to VeniceThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 04: Return to VeniceThe governor of the galeasses having issued orders for a general review at Gouyn, M. F, left for that place in his galley, telling me to join him there early on the...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 03: Military CareerThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 03: Military CareerI Renounce the Clerical Profession, and Enter the Military ServiceTherese Leaves for Naples, and I Go to VeniceI Am Appointed Ensign in the Army of My Native CountryI Embark for Corfu, and Land...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 02: a Cleric in NaplesThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 02: a Cleric in NaplesMy Misfortunes in ChiozzaFather StephanoThe Lazzaretto at AnconaThe Greek SlaveMy Pilgrimage to Our Lady of LorettoI Go to Rome on Foot, and From Rome to Naples to Meet the BishopI Cannot...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 01: ChildhoodThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 01: ChildhoodI will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. The doctrine of...
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The Life of Flavius JosephusThe Life of Flavius Josephus 1. The family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the...
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My Ten Years' ImprisonmentMy Ten Years' ImprisonmentHave I penned these memorials, let me ask myself, from any paltry vanity, or desire to talk about that self? I hope this is not the case, and forasmuch as one may be able to judge in ones own cause, I...
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My Life and My EffortsMy Life and My EffortsKarl May, born in 1842 under the name Carl Friedrich May, published the first volume of his autobiography in November of 1910. He never found the time to write the planned second volume or any of the other future works...
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Mein Leben und StrebenMein Leben und StrebenWenn man von der Erde aus drei Monate lang geraden Weges nach der Sonne geht und dann in derselben Richtung noch drei Monate lang ber die Sonne hinaus, so kommt man an einen Stern, welcher Sitara heit. Sitara ist ein persarabisches...
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Celebrated Crimes (Complete)Celebrated Crimes (Complete)The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not "the...
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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3Please 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....
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The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2Thomas Holcroft, the translator of these Memoirs of Baron Trenck, was the author of about thirty plays, among which one, The Road to Ruin, produced in 1792, has kept its place upon the stage. He was...
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The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1There were two cousins Von der Trenck, who were barons descended from an ancient house in East Prussia, and were adventurous soldiers, to whom, as to the adventurous, there were adventures that lost nothing in the...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2While occupying the ground between Clifton and Berryville, referred to in the last chapter of the preceding volume, I felt the need of an efficient body of scouts to collect information regarding...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events...
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Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayCaptains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics...
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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 THIS work has been undertaken principally from a conviction that it is the performance of a duty which, to the best of my ability, it is incumbent on me to fulfil. Though even on this ground...
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 2Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 2On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutenant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded respectively by...
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 1Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 1Another ten years have passed since I ventured to publish my Memoirs, and, being once more at leisure, I have revised them in the light of the many criticisms public and private. My habit has been...
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Father and Son: A Study of Two TemperamentsFather and Son: A Study of Two TemperamentsAT the present hour, when fiction takes forms so ingenious and so specious, it is perhaps necessary to say that the following narrative, in all its parts, and so far as the punctilious attention of the writer...
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The Women of the French SalonsThe Women of the French Salons It has been a labor of love with many distinguished Frenchmen to recall the memories of the women who have made their society so illustrious, and to retouch with sympathetic insight the features which time was beginning to...
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