Biography & Autobiography
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1The American edition of the "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley" calls for a few words by way of preface, for there existed a particular relationship between the English writer and his transatlantic readers....
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — CompleteFrederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete BESIDES minor corrections, the present edition contains the correction of the day and year of Frederick Francis Chopin's birth, which have been discovered since the publication of the second edition of this work. According to...
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2THE loves of famous men and women, especially of those connected with literature and the fine arts, have always excited much curiosity. In the majority of cases the poet's and artist's choice of a partner...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 06The Great Intendant : A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672When the year 1665 began, the French colony on the shores of the St Lawrence, founded by the valour and devotion of Champlain, had been in existence for more than half a century....
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Chopin : the Man and His MusicChopin : the Man and His Music Gustave Flaubert, pessimist and master of cadenced lyric prose, urged young writers to lead ascetic lives that in their art they might be violent. Chopin's violence was psychic, a travailing and groaning of the spirit; the bright...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, CompleteFamous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete Of all love stories that are known to human history, the love story of Antony and Cleopatra has been for nineteen centuries the most remarkable. It has tasked the resources of the plastic...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4 The story of Jonathan Swift and of the two women who gave their lives for love of him is familiar to every student of English literature. Swift himself, both in letters and in politics,...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3 Sixty or seventy years ago it was considered a great joke to chalk up on any man's house-door, or on his trunk at a coaching-station, the conspicuous letters "G. T. T." The laugh went...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2 It has often been said that the greatest Frenchman who ever lived was in reality an Italian. It might with equal truth be asserted that the greatest Russian woman who ever lived was in...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1 Of all love stories that are known to human history, the love story of Antony and Cleopatra has been for nineteen centuries the most remarkable. It has tasked the resources of the plastic and...
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Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontierUnderground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontiercollection in memory of my great aunt, Lucie Palmer. Lucie was an explorer, a naturalist, a keen undersea diver and above all a gifted painter. In the last years of her life, she lost her vision...
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1This header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information...
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1Johnsons Lives of the Poets were written to serve as Introductions to a trade edition of the works of poets whom the booksellers selected for republication. Sometimes, therefore, they dealt briefly with men in whom the public...
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Lives of the English PoetsLives of the English Poets - Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.This volume contains a record of twenty lives, of which only onethat of Edward Youngis treated at length. It completes our edition of Johnsons Lives of the Poets, from which a few only of...
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Seven Wives and Seven PrisonsSeven Wives and Seven Prisons - Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story DETAILED CONTENTS SEVEN WIVES AND SEVEN PRISONS CHAPTER I. THE FIRST AND WORST WIFE CHAPTER II. MISERIES FROM MY SECOND MARRIAGE CHAPTER III. THE SCHEIMER SENSATION...
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Starr King in CaliforniaStarr King in California This book is the result of the author's strong desire to know the truth relative to a critical period in the history of California, and a further strong desire to deal justly by the memory of a man recent historians...
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Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley It is worse than useless to deplore the irremediable; yet no man, probably, has failed to mourn the fate of mighty poets, whose dawning gave the promise of a glorious day, but who passed from earth while yet the light that...
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Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War GeneralsMemoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals Title: Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals Author: Ulysses S. Grant et al. Release Date: June 1, 2004 [EBook #4546] Language: English Credits: Produced by David Widger. Additional proofing was done by...
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Biographies of Working MenBiographies of Working Men My acknowledgments are due to Dr. Smiles's "Lives of the Engineers," "Life of the Stephensons," and "Life of a Scotch Naturalist;" to Lady Eastlake's "Life of Gibson;" to Mr. Holden's "Life of Sir William Herschel;" to M. Seusier's "J. F....
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Roughing It in the BushRoughing It in the Bush In most instances, emigration is a matter of necessity, not of choice; and this is more especially true of the emigration of persons of respectable connections, or of any station or position in the world. Few educated persons, accustomed...
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