Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People Until within the past ten years a study of Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away...
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Life and Adventures of Calamity JaneLife and Adventures of Calamity JaneMy maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in Princeton, Missourri, May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were natives of Ohio. I had two brothers and three sisters, I being the oldest of the children. As a child...
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She Stands AccusedShe Stands Accused Being a Series of Accounts of the Lives and Deeds of Notorious Women, Murderesses, Cheats, Cozeners, on whom Justice was Executed, and of others who, Accused of Crimes, were Acquitted at least in Law; Drawn from Authenticated Sources TO RAFAEL SABATINI...
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James Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyPlease 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 etext (jnasm10.txt) is the...
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A Book of Remarkable CriminalsA Book of Remarkable Criminals "The silent workings, and still more the explosions, of human passion which bring to light the darker elements of man's nature present to the philosophical observer considerations of intrinsic interest; while to the jurist, the study of human nature...
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Miracle Mongers and Their MethodsMiracle Mongers and Their Methods - A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. "All wonder," said Samuel Johnson, "is the effect of novelty on ignorance." Yet we...
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John Jacob AstorJohn Jacob AstorThe man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him richI merely mean that such a man will in...
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Appreciations of Richard Harding DavisAppreciations of Richard Harding Davis He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him, and so he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two is middle-aged. But if R. H. D. had lived to...
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Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding DavisAdventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Street, to...
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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersIndustrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersThe Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across...
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Memories and PortraitsMemories and PortraitsThis volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone...
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Kansas Women in LiteratureKansas Women in Literature The last place one would expect to find romance is in arithmetic and yetMiss Effie Graham, the head of the Department of Mathematics in the Topeka High School, has found it there and better still, in her lecture "Living Arithmetic"...
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The Story of a PioneerThe Story of a Pioneer My father's ancestors were the Shaws of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins of their castle may still be seen on the island of Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was never the picturesque castle of song and story,...
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Indian BoyhoodIndian Boyhood WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a real hunt. There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance away...
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Indian Heroes and Great ChieftainsIndian Heroes and Great Chieftains EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in...
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Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis StevensonWhen a popular writer dies, the question it has become the fashion with a nervous generation to ask is the question, Will he live? There was no idler question, none more hopelessly impossible and unprofitable to answer. It is one of the...
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John BarleycornJohn Barleycorn It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of...
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Records of a Family of EngineersRecords of a Family of EngineersFrom the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times...
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The Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeThe Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke I Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him...
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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden...
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