Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02The moment in which fear had instigated my flight, did not seem more terrible than that wherein I put my design in execution appeared delightful. To leave my relations, my resources, while yet a child, in...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all timemust be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — CompleteMemoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete The present work contains particulars of the great Napoleon not to be found in any other publication, and forms an interesting addition...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 7Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 7MY LORD:Though loudly complained of by the Cabinet of St. Cloud, the Cabinet of St. Petersburg has conducted itself in these critical...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6My LORD:I was lately invited to a tea-party by one of our rich upstarts, who, from a scavenger, is, by the Revolution...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 5Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 5MY LORD:Since my return here, I have never neglected to present myself before our Sovereign, on his days of grand reviews and...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4MY LORD:The Italian subjects of Napoleon the First were far from displaying the same zeal and the same gratitude for his paternal...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 3Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 3MY LORD:No Sovereigns have, since the Revolution, displayed more grandeur of soul, and evinced more firmness of character, than the present King...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 2Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 2MY LORD:Bonaparte has been as profuse in his disposal of the Imperial diadem of Germany, as in his promises of the papal...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1The writer of the Letters (whose name is said to have been Stewarton, and who had been a friend of the Empress...
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The Mirrors of WashingtonThe Mirrors of Washington President of the United States; b. Corsica, Morrow Co., O., Nov. 2, 1865; Educ. student of Ohio Central Coll. (now defunct), Iberia, 1879-82; engaged in newspaper business at Marion, O., since 1884; pres. Harding Pub. Co., pubs. Star (daily); mem....
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HaydnHaydn The authority for Haydn's life is the biography begun by the late Dr Pohl, and completed after his death by E.V. Mandyczewski. To this work, as yet untranslated, every subsequent writer is necessarily indebted, and the present volume, which I may fairly claim...
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Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon BonaparteThis 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....
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Famous Men of the Middle AgesFamous Men of the Middle Ages The study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume their right...
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Cartrefi CymruCartrefi CymruDyma gartref Edmund Prys, swynwr yn ol cred gwlad, arch-ddiacon Meirionnydd wrth ei swydd, a chyfieithydd melodaidd y Salmau. Ganwyd ef tua 1541, bu farw tua 1621. Nid edwyn neb le ei fedd ym Maentwrog. Y mae Bryn Tynoriad yn nyffryn yr Wnion,...
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1This 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...
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Alfred TennysonAlfred TennysonIn writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the text of the Poems. As to the Life,...
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Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice. Even one who confines his reading solely to...
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English Men of LettersChaucer The peculiar conditions of this essay must be left to explain themselves. It could not have been written at all without the aid of the Publications of the Chaucer Society, and more especially of the labours of the Society's Director, Mr. Furnivall. To...
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The Americanization of Edward BokThe Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years Afterto the american woman i owe much,but to two women i owe more, MY MOTHERandMY WIFE. and to them i dedicate this account of the boyto whom one gave birth...
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