Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Memoirs of Victor HugoThe Memoirs of Victor Hugo This volume of memoirs has a double characterhistorical and intimate. The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, VICTOR HUGO. As we follow the events set forth we get the...
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The Cruise of the SnarkThe Cruise of the SnarkIt began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman....
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The Boys' and Girls' PlutarchThe Boys' and Girls' Plutarch - Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the...
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Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and AstrologerIsaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer Of the relations between Steele and Addison, and the origin of Steele's "Tatler," which was developed afterwards into the "Spectator," account has already been given in the introduction to a volume of this Library, * containing essays from the...
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The Friendly Road: New Adventures in ContentmentThe Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment I did not plan when I began writing these chapters to make an entire book, but only to put down the more or less unusual impressions, the events and adventures, of certain quiet pilgrimages in country roads....
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Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West PointHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point - Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on...
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Eminent VictoriansEminent VictoriansTHE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historianignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning...
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The Memoirs of General Baron de MarbotThe Memoirs of General Baron de MarbotPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about...
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The Story of My LifeThe Story of My Life - With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy This book is in three parts. The first two, Miss...
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Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate BiographyTheodore Roosevelt: An Intimate BiographyPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...
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Up from Slavery: An AutobiographyUp from Slavery: An Autobiography The details of Mr. Washington's early life, as frankly set down in "Up from Slavery," do not give quite a whole view of his education. He had the training that a coloured youth receives at Hampton, which, indeed, the...
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Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. LeeRecollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee Engineers, a hero to his childThe family petsHome from the Mexican WarThree years in BaltimoreSuperintendent of the West Point Military AcademyLieutenant-Colonel of Second CavalrySupresses John Brown Raid at Harpers FerryCommands the Department of Taxes.............. 3 United...
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The Story of My Heart: An AutobiographyThe Story of My Heart: An Autobiography The story of my heart commences seventeen years ago. In the glow of youth there were times every now and then when I felt the necessity of a strong inspiration of soul-thought. My heart was dusty, parched...
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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA) Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity: Before...
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Extracts from the Diary of William BrayExtracts from the Diary of William BrayMr. Bray was born at Shere, on the 15th of November, 1736. He was the youngest of the three sons who survived their father Edward Bray, Esq. George the eldest, who was in the Church, and the second...
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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 led to comprehend true affinities. My theory would give zest to recent & Fossil Comparative Anatomy: it would lead to study of instincts, heredity, & mind heredity, whole metaphysics, it would lead to closest examination...
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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could...
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Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching onOld John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on This book is for busy people who have not the time to read at large upon the subject. Those who would adequately master all the bearings of the story here briefly told must read...
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Liber Amoris, Or, The New PygmalionLiber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion The circumstances, an outline of which is given in these pages, happened a very short time ago to a native of North Britain, who left his own country early in life, in consequence of political animosities and an...
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My Memories of 80 YearsMy Memories of Eighty Years For many years my friends have insisted upon my putting in permanent form the incidents in my life which have interested them. It has been my good fortune to take part in history-making meetings and to know more or...
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