Biographies

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Patrick Braybrooke

Patrick Braybrooke’s work is a scholarly tribute to G. K.

The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

Ellen Terry

Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Otto Jahn

The work is Otto Jahn’s scholarly biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the first volume of a three‑part…

Anastasia: The autobiography of H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia

Eugenia Smith

The work is presented as the memoir of H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna, written by Eugenia…

How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time

Rosalind Goforth

This work is a personal testimony by missionary Rosalind Goforth, collected from her own experiences of…

The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne

Jane Austen

The volume presents a curated selection of Jane Austen’s private correspondence, drawn from the two‑volume…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers a…

What Nietzsche Taught

Willard Huntington Wright

What What Nietzsche Taught offers a systematic overview of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, aimed at readers…

James B. Eads

Louis How

The work is a biographical sketch of James Buchanan Eads, written by Louis How in 1900.

La copa de Verlaine

Emilio Carrere

La obra de Emilio Carrere, titulada La copa de Verlaine, se presenta como una prosa poética que gira en torno…

Friedrich Nietzsche

Georg Brandes

This work is a scholarly biography of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Georg Brandes, a German‑born literary…

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The second volume of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s correspondence gathers letters written between 1851 and…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09

The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) Volume 1 (of 2)

Lady Elizabeth Vassall Fox Holland

The work is a two‑volume journal of Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady Holland, covering the years 1791‑1811, with…

John Lyly

John Dover Wilson

This work is a scholarly study of John Lyly, presented as the first attempt to treat the whole range of…

Forty-one years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-chief

Frederick Sleigh Roberts

Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl Roberts, offers a sweeping autobiographical account that blends personal…

Life of Adam Smith

John Rae

The work is a scholarly biography of Adam Smith, the eighteenth‑century Scottish economist, compiled by John…

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

H. L. Mencken

This work is a scholarly yet accessible survey of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s life and thought, compiled by…

Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete

Albert Bigelow Paine

Albert Bigelow Paine’s work is a biographical study that situates Mark Twain within the broader currents of…

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States,…

The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More

Frederic Seebohm

Frederic Seebohm’s work is a scholarly study of the intertwined careers of John Colet, Desiderius Erasmus,…

Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov

Gorky, Maksim; Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich; Kuprin, A. I.

The work is a collective memoir in which Maksim Gorky, Ivan Bunin and Alexander Kuprin recount their…

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1: Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755-1788

Albert J. Beveridge

This volume is a scholarly biography of John Marshall, the future Chief Justice of the United States,…

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

Sir Ernest Scott

The work is a scholarly biography of the English navigator Matthew Flinders, whose life spanned 1774‑1814 and…