Biographies

Dante: His Times and His Work

Arthur John Butler

Arthur John Butler’s “Dante: His Times and His Work” is a compact scholarly guide aimed at beginners rather…

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole

The work is an autobiographical travel narrative by Mary Seacole, a Jamaican‑born Creole woman of mixed…

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

G. F. R. Henderson

The work is a scholarly biography that intertwines the military history of the American Civil War with the…

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4)

William Milligan Sloane

The third volume of William Milligan Sloane’s four‑part biography of Napoleon offers a densely detailed study…

Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete

Frederick Niecks

Frederick Niecks’s work is a scholarly biography that sets out to map the whole life of Frédéric Chopin, with…

Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 1

Giovanni Boccaccio

Il volume è una raccolta di commenti e scritti di Giovanni Boccaccio dedicati a Dante Alighieri, con…

Lives of the early Medici: As told in their correspondence

The volume presents a meticulously edited collection of private letters written by the early Medici, Cosimo,…

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4)

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Lives is a collection of short biographical sketches that juxtapose the most celebrated Greeks and…

The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932

Hart Crane

The volume is a collection of Hart Crane’s letters written between 1916 and 1932, assembled to complement the…

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive

Alfred Burnett

Incidents of the War is a collection of letters, sketches and anecdotes by Alfred Burnett, a Cincinnati‑based…

The hero of the Filipinos: The story of José Rizal, poet, patriot and martyr

Russell, Charles Edward; Rodriguez, Eulogio Balan

The work is a scholarly biography that seeks to bring together the scattered sources on José Rizal for an…

Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.

Knowles, James; Knowles, Matilda Darroch

Gathering Jewels is a memorial collection drawn from the diaries of James and Matilda Knowles, devoted to…

The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6)

John Knox

This first volume of John Knox’s collected works presents the historian’s own account of the Scottish…

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

Matthew Alexander Henson

The work is a first‑person memoir by Matthew A. Henson, the African‑American aide who accompanied Robert E.

Great Artists, Vol 1.: Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer

Jennie Ellis Keysor

The book is a scholarly guide to the lives and works of four celebrated masters, Raphael, Rubens, Murillo,…

A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions

E. V. Lucas

The work is a scholarly companion to Ibn Khallikān’s Wafāyāt al‑ʿAʿyān, the medieval biographical dictionary…

Library of the best American literature Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers

This volume is a comprehensive survey of American letters, arranged as a series of biographical sketches and…

Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics

Allen Johnson

The work is a scholarly biography of Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic statesman whose name has largely…

The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910

Augustin Fabre

The book is a biographical tribute to the celebrated French entomologist Jean‑Henri Fabre, assembled from…

Indian Child Life

Charles A. Eastman

The book is a memoir and collection of stories by Charles A.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Lives is a collection of paired biographies that draws moral lessons from the deeds of great…

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint

Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola

Whitney, Edson Leone; Perry, F. M.

Four American Indians presents a series of biographical sketches of four notable Native leaders, King Philip,…

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1

George Gordon Byron

This volume assembles the surviving letters and journal entries of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, covering…