Memoirs
Memories of My Life
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Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Na…
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Josiah Henson
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is an autobiographical narrative given by J…
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV
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François-René de Chateaubriand
After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…
The Outermost House
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Henry Beston
A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod - Summary by subtitle
An American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker
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Cornelia Stratton Parker
In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their l…
Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage
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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She w…
Journal Of Small Things
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Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
Brief journal sketches from France during WW1. The author was was American, but went on to spend much of her life in France. - Summary by ka…
The Gentle Persuasion
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Alan Gray
Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author se…
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol I
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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of som…
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …
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Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…
Seen and Unseen
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Emily Katharine Bates and E. Katharine Bates
Novelist. Psychic investigator. Globe trotter. The multi-plane traveler, E. Katharine Bates, shares her phenomenal adventures on the cusp of…
The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1
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James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
Man-of-War Life
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Charles Nordhoff
In 1844, Charles Nordhoff joined the U.S. Navy at the young age of 14. He describes his around-the-world adventure as a young sailor aboard …
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 05
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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…
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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John Hanning Speke
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a Picture
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Francis Bicknell Carpenter
This memoir by painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter includes observations he made during his time at the White House from February-July 1864, …
From Baca to Beulah
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Jennie Smith
Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…
Under the Guns : A woman's reminiscences of the Civil War
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Annie Wittenmyer and Annie Wittenmyer
Preface:The stories and reminiscences in this book are true to life, every one of them. They are told just as they occurred, without any att…
Germany Before the War
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Napoleon-Eugène Beyens
Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…
My War Experiences in Two Continents
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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan
Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1…