Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ
Anne Catherine Emmerich was a German Augustinian nun who had visions about Christ's life and death. This book relates her visions regarding …
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…
The Story of Abraham Lincoln
In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glow…
Character Building
Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Ind…
How to Succeed
How to Succeed by Orison Swett Marden offers a practical guide to achieving personal and professional success. Written in 1896, this influen…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
The Life of Honorable William F. Cody
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…
Oscar Wilde
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…
Roughing It in the Bush
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englis…
My School Days
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
King Alfred of England
The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…
Two Years in the Forbidden City
THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu Wh…
Wild Life on the Rockies
"This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twent…
Iola Leroy
This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …
Life of St. Vincent de Paul
Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 - 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when…
A Texas Cowboy
Charles A. Siringo was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and…
A Jewish State
Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discu…