Biography & Autobiography
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Shakspeare and His TimesShakspeare and His Times The Essay on the Life and Works of Shakspeare, which I reprint in the present volume, appeared for the first time as an Introduction to the French edition of Shakspeare's complete works, which was published at Paris in 1821. This...
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Les condamnés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Récit de deux évadésLes condamnés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Récit de deux évadésA la fin de mai 1871, aprs l'crasement de la Rvolution de Paris, quand l'arme de Versailles fut lasse de huit jours de massacre, quarante ou cinquante mille prisonniers restaient encore entre ses mains. Entasss dans...
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Wellington's Men: Some Soldier AutobiographiesWellington's Men: Some Soldier AutobiographiesThis volume is an attempt to rescue from undeserved oblivion a cluster of soldierly autobiographies; and to give to the general reader some pictures of famous battles, not as described by the historian or analysed by the philosopher, but as...
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The Life of Col. James GardinerThe Life of Col. James GardinerThe Colonels mother was a lady of very excellent character; but it pleased God to exercise her with uncommon trials; for she lost not only her husband and her brother in the service of their country, but also her...
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VI. Being the Second of the Third VoyageThe Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VI. Being the Second of the Third VoyageAN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON OBSERVED.THE ISLAND TOOBOUAI DISCOVERED.ITS SITUATION, EXTENT, AND APPEARANCE.INTERCOURSE WITH ITS INHABITANTS.THEIR PERSONS, DRESSES, AND CANOES DESCRIBED.ARRIVAL IN OHEITEPEHA BAY AT OTAHEITE.OMAIS RECEPTION,...
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The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of EgyptThe Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of EgyptThe reign of Akhnaton, for seventeen years Pharaoh of Egypt (from B.C. 1375 to 1358), stands out as the most interesting epoch in the long sequence of Egyptian history. We have watched the endless line of...
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Galileo and His JudgesGalileo and His JudgesThere is no name in the annals of science which has been the occasion of so long and fierce a controversy as that of Galileo. The historian, the astronomer, and the theologian have all had a share in it. Sometimes there...
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The Life and Adventures of Jack SheppardThe Life and Surprising Exploits of Jack SheppardJACK SHEPPARD was born in the parish of Stepney, near London, in the year 1702. His father was a Carpenter, and he died when Jack was so young, that Jack could not recollect ever seeing him. Hence...
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Money-making men or, how to grow richMoney-making men; or, how to grow richI FEAR City people are very mercenary in their views and habits. It is natural that they should be so; they come into the City to make money, and that is all they are thinking of while they...
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La Nonne AlferezLa Nonne AlferezBien quelle ait toute lallure aventureuse et picaresque dun roman de cape et dpe, lhistoire de la Nonne Alferez est une histoire vraie. Elle sent mme parfois terriblement fort la vrit. Catalina de Erauso a vcu, dune vie exaspre, comme disent les...
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. V. Being the First of the Third VoyageThe Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. V. Being the First of the Third VoyageThe spirit of discovery, which had long animated the European nations, having, after its arduous and successful exertions during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, gradually subsided, and...
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ThackerayThackerayAMID all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring...
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Interesting Incidents Connected With the Life of George BickersInteresting Incidents Connected With the Life of George Bickers - Originally a Farmer's Parish Apprentice at Laxfield, in Suffolk, but Now Residing in Oultonp. 3The writer of these pages was born at Laxfield, a village in the County of Suffolk, on the 16th day...
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Leo TolstoyLeo TolstoyIF any one wishes to form the fullest estimate of the real character and influence of the great man whose name is prefixed to these remarks, he will not find it in his novels, splendid as they are, or in his ethical views,...
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An Account of the Ladies of LlangollenAn Account of the Ladies of LlangollenLady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby were Irish ladies of rank and beauty, who loved each other with an affection so true that they could never bear the idea of the separation which the marriage of either would...
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'Harper's Handy Series' No. 134, 'English Men of Letters'SoutheyI am indebted throughout to The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, edited by the Rev. C. C. Southey, six volumes, 1850, and to Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, edited by J. W. Warter, B.D., four volumes, 1856. Many other sources have...
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The Story of My Life and WorkThe Story of My Life and Work HAVE cheerfully consented to prefix a few words introductory to this autobiography. While I have encouraged its publication, not a sentence has been submitted to my examination. From my intimate acquaintance with the subject, because of my...
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From Midshipman to Field MarshalFrom Midshipman to Field MarshalAncestryParentageThe Grammar School and College at MarlboroughI become a Naval Cadet. The Woods, from whom I am descended, were for hundreds of years owners of Hareston Manor, Brixton, a small village near Plymouth. There is a record of a John...
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Charles DickensCharles DickensCONSIDERED merely as literary fashions, romanticism and realism are both tricks, and tricks alone. The only advantage lies with romanticism, which is a little less artificial and technical than realism. For the great majority of people here and now do naturally write romanticism,...
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Eleanor Ormerod, LL. D., Economic Entomologist : Autobiography and CorrespondenceEleanor Ormerod, LL. D., Economic Entomologist : Autobiography and CorrespondenceThe idea that Miss Ormerod should write her biography originated with the present writer during one of many visits paid to her at St. Albans. Miss Ormerod had unfolded in charming language and with admirable...
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