Biographies

The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman

Francis L. Hawks

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical narrative that treats Daniel Boone as a larger‑than‑life…

George Washington

Calista McCabe Courtenay

This work is a biographical narrative that traces George Washington’s early life from his childhood on the…

Robert Louis Stevenson

Margaret Moyes Black

The work is a modestly sized memoir and appreciation of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written…

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

The work is Henry Adams’s autobiographical study of his own formation, framed as a philosophical experiment…

Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Lord George Bentinck’s political biography, penned by Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield, is a…

The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti With an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modern

Charles William Russell

The work is a scholarly biography that grew out of an 1855 Edinburgh Review article on the famed polyglot…

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 1 (of 2): Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

This volume presents the early portion of Elizabeth Montagu’s extensive correspondence, spanning from 1720 to…

The diary of a Russian lady: reminiscences of Barbara Doukhovskoy (née princesse Galitzine)

Varvara Dukhovskaia

The diary presents itself as a sprawling memoir of Varvara Dukhovskaia, a Russian noblewoman whose…

The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl

Katharine Duncan Morse

The book is a first‑person wartime diary presented as a series of unsent letters from a young American…

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete

William T. Sherman

This work is the autobiographical memoir of General William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union commander whose life…

Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, Volume 1 (of 2): During four-and-twenty years in the east; With Revelations of Life in the Zenāna

Fanny Parkes Parlby

The work is a sprawling travel diary by Fanny Parkes Parlby, a British woman who spent twenty‑four years in…

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume presents a curated selection of Anton Chekhov’s correspondence, drawn from the…

Brief Lives, Vol. 1

John Aubrey

The work is a scholarly anthology of brief biographies compiled by the 17th‑century antiquarian John Aubrey,…

Plymouth memories of an octogenarian

William T. Davis

William T. Davis’s Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian is a personal chronicle that doubles as a local…

With the Naval Brigade in Natal, 1899-1900: Journal of Active Service

C. R. N. Burne

The work is a personal journal kept by Lieutenant‑Commander C. R. N.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

This work is the autobiographical memoir of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish‑born American industrialist and…

Memories (volume 1 of 2)

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

The work is a memoir in two volumes by Algernon Bertram Freeman‑Mitford, Baron Redesdale, written as a…

Dostoevsky

André Gide

The work is a scholarly tribute by André Gide, the leading French novelist of the early twentieth century, to…

The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 1 (of 3)

L. Tyerman

The work is a scholarly biography of John Wesley, founder of Methodism, written by Luke Tyerman in 1870.

Rupert, Prince Palatine

Eva Scott

The work is a scholarly portrait of Prince Rupert, Prince Palatine, tracing his life from birth in the…

Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark

Harris Newmark

The work is a memoir of Harris Newmark, a longtime resident and businessman who witnessed the growth of Los…

Lincoln's yarns and stories: A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller

Alexander K. McClure

The volume presents a curated anthology of Abraham Lincoln’s “yarns, stories, droll sayings, and witty…

Peter Cooper

Rossiter W. Raymond

The work is a biographical sketch of Peter Cooper, the 19th‑century American inventor, industrialist and…

The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel

Teresa, of Avila, Saint

The work is a scholarly edition of the autobiographical “Life of St.