Biography & Autobiography
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Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making MoneyCaptains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making MoneyIn this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of...
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Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of CivilisationTheodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisationn the following pages I have endeavoured to portray the life and character of one of the most striking figures in the history of the Early Middle Ages, Theodoric the Ostrogoth. The plan of the series, for which...
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Lord George Bentinck: A Political BiographyLord George Bentinck: A Political Biography IS INSCRIBED This Political Biography ONE FOR WHOM HE ENTERTAINED A DEEP AFFECTION, AND WHOSE TALENTS AND VIRTUES HE SHARES. THE political career of Lord George Bentinck was peculiar. He had, to use his own expression, sate in...
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Little Abe, or, the Bishop of Berry BrowLittle Abe, or, the Bishop of Berry Brow - Being the Life of Abraham Lockwood I desire to express my thanks to all those friends who have kindly assisted me in collecting materials for these pages; and I am especially indebted to my friends...
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Chapters from My AutobiographyChapters from My AutobiographyI intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published, after my death, and I also intend that it shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and methoda...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee NarrativesSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives"I dunno jes how ole I ez. I wuz baw'n 'yer in Nashville, durin' slabery. I must be way pas' 90 fer I member de...
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Boys' Book of Famous SoldiersBoys' Book of Famous SoldiersSo much has been written about the great soldiers of the world, that it is a matter of considerable hardihood to attempt to present another volume on the subject in any sense "new." But the Great War has not only...
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The Youth of GoetheThe Youth of Goethe"Generally speaking," Goethe has himself said, "the most important period in the life of an individual is that of his developmentthe period which, in my case, breaks off with the detailed narrative of Dichtung und Wahrheit." In reality, as we know,...
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Something of Men I Have KnownSomething of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The contraction "n't" appears both as a separate word and as a suffix in the text. Since this seems to be the choice of the Linotype...
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The Red HorizonThe Red Horizon[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. The original spelling has been retained. Page 17: "some with faces turned upwards," the word "turned" was crossed. Page 234: Added a round bracket, (A bullet whistles by on the right of Bill's head.).]...
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Chapters from My AutobiographyChapters from My Autobiography ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 19682 Author: Twain, Mark Release Date: Nov 14, 2006 Format: eBook Language: English
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English Men of LettersAlexander PopeThe life and writings of Pope have been discussed in a literature more voluminous than that which exists in the case of almost any other English man of letters. No biographer, however, has produced a definitive or exhaustive work. It seems therefore desirable...
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Im Schatten der Titanen: Erinnerungen an Baronin Jenny von GustedtIm Schatten der Titanen: Erinnerungen an Baronin Jenny von GustedtIm Jahre 1890 starb Jenny von Gustedt, deren Leben diese Bltter schildern sollen. Sie war die letzte Zeugin einer groen Zeit, ihre Gestalt war geweiht und verklrt durch Goethes Freundschaft. Unter dem Titel "Aus Goethes...
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Jerome Cardan: A Biographical StudyJerome Cardan: A Biographical StudyNo attempt is made in the following pages to submit to historical treatment the vast and varied mass of printed matter which Cardan left as his contribution to letters and science, except in the case of those works which are,...
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Charles Fourier: Sein Leben und seine TheorienCharles Fourier: Sein Leben und seine Theorien. Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert zhlt in der Geschichte der Entwicklung der Menschheit zu jenen Perioden, auf denen der Blick des Kulturforschers und Fortschrittsfreundes mit besonderem Interesse ruht. Nach den religisen, politischen und sozialen Kmpfen des Reformationszeitalters war, wie...
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A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian VoyageA Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage - Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine.Right Honorable, hauing by chaunce recouered of late into my handes (after I had once lost the same)...
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Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread CheapObed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap Being a true record of his life and struggles to introduce his greatest invention, the reaper, and its success, as gathered from pamphlets published heretofore by some of his friends and associates, and reprinted in...
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James Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore Cooper - American Men of LettersWhen Cooper lay on his death-bed he enjoined his family to permit no authorized account of his life to be prepared. A wish even, that was uttered at such a time, would have had the weight of...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3The original of this text had some handwritten annotations. Where these corrected typographical errors, the correction has simply been made. Where they queried...
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Western WorthiesWestern Worthies - A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland CelebritiesThe author does not consider that the following pages require any apology for their appearance. They are given to the world with a two-fold objectthe first being that of gratifying...
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