Biography & Autobiography
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The Trembling of the VeilThe Trembling of the Veil [Pg 1] [Pg 2] [Pg 3] At the end of the eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several mantelpieces...
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StevensonianaStevensoniana - Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His WorkThe early days of the literary career of Robert Louis Stevenson can hardly be said to have been entirely devoid of recognition, though it...
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Ο Βίος του ΧριστούΟ Βίος του ΧριστούNote: The tonic system has been changed from polytonic to monotonic. The spelling of the book has not been changed otherwise. Words in bold characters are included in &. Square brackets [] indicate corrections to the original. Corrections of obvious mistakes...
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Aubrey BeardsleyAubrey Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley was born on August 21st, 1872, at Brighton. He was a quiet, reserved child, caring little for lessons, though from an early age he shewed an aptitude for drawing. He began his education at a Kindergarten. He was seven years...
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Selections from Viri RomaeSelections from Viri RomaeIf any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts....
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Lives of Celebrated WomenLives of Celebrated WomenIt is an oft-quoted proposition of Rousseau, that the glory of woman lies in being unknown. If this be true, we shall deserve little credit for placing before the world these brief sketches of a few of the sex who have...
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Maria EdgeworthMaria EdgeworthThough many notices of Miss Edgeworth have appeared from time to time, nothing approaching to a Life of her has been published in this country. As I have had the good fortune to have access to an unpublished memoir of her, written by...
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The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the SecondThe Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the SecondChapter: XXXII., XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXV., XXXVI., XXXVII., XXXVIII., XXXIX., XL., XLI., XLII., XLIII., XLIV., XLV., XLVI., XLVII., XLVIII., XLIX., L., LI., LII., LIII., LIV., LV., LVI., LVII., LVIII., LIX., LX., LXI., LXII., LXIII., LXIV., LXV., PIETRO...
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The White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and FaithThe White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and FaithTells how a little girl lived in a lowly home, and played, and dreamed dreams, and how a dark shadow came into her life and made her unhappy; how when she grew...
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10)Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) - Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index.Having written hitherto of the lives and works of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects, from Cimabue down to the present day, who have...
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My First Book:My First Book: - the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli,...
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Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the RoadSigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road "Only the envy was, that it lasted not still, or, now it is past, cannot by imagination, much less description, be recovered to a part of that spirit it had in the gliding by."...
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The Divorce of Catherine of AragonThe Divorce of Catherine of Aragon - The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIIIThe mythic element cannot be eliminated out of history. Men who play leading parts on the worlds stage gather about them the admiration...
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Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome premierLes historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome premier - Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècleNote de transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Dans la note numro 56, la...
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Riverside Biographical Series, number 5Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was born upon a frontier estate in Albemarle County, Virginia, April 13, 1743. His father, Peter Jefferson, was of Welsh descent, not of aristocratic birth, but of that yeoman class which constitutes the backbone of all societies. The elder Jefferson...
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A Day with Lord ByronA Day with Lord Byronne February afternoon in the year 1822, about two o'clock,for this is the hour at which his day begins,"the most notorious personality of his century" arouses himself, in the Palazzo Lanfranchi at Pisa. George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, languidly arises...
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The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington IrvingThe Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving - For Young Persons and for the Use of SchoolsIn condensing into one compact volume Mr. Irving's elaborate Life of Washington, care has been taken to retain, not only all the...
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Confessions of an Opera SingerConfessions of an Opera SingerSo many fantastic tales have come to us of students' life abroad, of their temptations, trials, finances, successes and failures, that I have attempted to give here the true story of the preparation for an operatic career, and its fruition....
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InterpretersInterpreters"C'est que le Beau est la seule chose qui soit immortelle, et qu'aussi longtemps qu'il reste un vestige de sa manifestation matrielle, son immortalit subsiste. Le Beau est rpandu partout, il s'tend mme jusque sur la mort. Mais il ne rayonne nulle part avec...
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The Children of Westminster Abbey: Studies in English HistoryThe Children of Westminster Abbey: Studies in English HistoryTwelve hundred years ago, in the reign of King Sebert the Saxon, a poor fisherman called Edric, was casting his nets one Sunday night into the Thames. He lived on the Isle of Thorns, a dry...
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