Biography & Autobiography
William Penn
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George Hodges
Biography of William Penn - Summary by Richard Vogel
Henry the Fifth
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Alfred John Church
A brief history of the life Henry the Fifth. - Summary by KevinS
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
The Life of Washington, Volume 4
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John James Marshall
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …
The Life of Columbus
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Sir Arthur Helps
A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…
The Autobiography of an Indian Princess
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Sunity Devi
The remarkable Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devi shares the extraordinary story of her life in The Autobiography of an Indian Princess. - …
Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lect…
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his famous lecture on SHAKESPEARE as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
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Elizabeth Blackwell
A fascinating account of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She writes of her struggles in being accepted to …
David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology
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James Orr
David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…
Mimosa, Who Was Charmed
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
“This story is true. It tells the eternally new tale of the matchless charm of our Lord Jesus Christ. One look at that loveliness, and, th…
The Valley of Baca: a Record of Suffering and Triumph
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Jennie Smith
Jennie Smith was a 19th-Century Job. At 15 years old, her father's business and finances failed, and he later died of illness, leaving her f…
Robert Louis Stevenson
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G. K. Chesterton
This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitl…
Augustus Caesar and the Organisation of the Empire of Rome
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John Benjamin Firth
There is, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no biography of Augustus Caesar - a most curious fact when one considers the extraordinar…
William the Third
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Henry Duff Traill
William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …
Captain John Smith
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Captain John Smith is probably best known for his association with the colonization of Virginia from the early days of Jamestown, and his ex…
The Story of George Fox
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Rufus Jones
A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel
When Buffalo Ran
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George Bird Grinnell
"Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed.In s…
Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms
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Courtney Ryley Cooper
Annie Oakley was without a doubt the greatest markswomen who ever lived. She was christened Phoebe Ann Mosey but was called Annie from child…
The dogaressas of Venice: The wives of the doges
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Edgcumbe Staley
A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 8
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…