Biographies

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography

Kenneth Hotham Vickers

Kenneth Hotham Vickers’s work is a scholarly biography of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the fourth son of…

A Magician Among the Spirits

Harry Houdini

A Magician Among the Spirits is Harry Houdini’s extended memoir of his lifelong confrontation with…

Andersonville diary: Escape, and List of the Dead, with Name, Co., Regiment, Date of Death and No. of Grave in Cemetery

John L. Ransom

John L. Ransom’s work is a hybrid of personal diary, war memoir, and reference guide.

Miss Eden's Letters

Emily Eden

Miss Eden’s Letters is a curated collection of the private correspondence of Emily Eden (1797‑1869), a…

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency

John Trusler

John Trusler’s work is a nineteenth‑century catalogue that gathers William Hogarth’s most celebrated series…

The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; Vol. 4 of 4

Robert Wilson

The work is a comprehensive chronicle of Queen Victoria’s reign, compiled by Robert Wilson as the final…

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 1 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume 1, is a scholarly edition of a…

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete

Philip Henry Sheridan

The work is the full memoir of Philip Henry Sheridan, a Union general whose life spanned the Irish immigrant…

Michael Angelo Buonarroti With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda

Charles Holroyd

The work is a scholarly edition that brings together Ascanio Condivi’s 1553 biography of Michelangelo, a text…

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886

Various

Donahoe’s Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1 (January 1886) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that opens with a…

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years

Ida Husted Harper

Ida Husted Harper’s second volume of The Life and Work of Susan B.

Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters

Charles Darwin

This volume is a curated selection drawn from the expansive “Life and Letters” of Charles Darwin, presented…

Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life Accompanied by Fragments of the Ethical Writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, and have not been noticed by any editor

Iamblichus

The work is a scholarly edition that brings together Iamblichus’s “Life of Pythagoras” with fragments of…

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him

Francis F. Browne

This volume is a biographical compilation that gathers the recollections of people who actually knew Abraham…

Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.

John Burnet

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly catalogue that combines a concise biography of Rembrandt…

The autobiography of Arthur Young: With Selections From His Correspondence

Arthur Young

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Arthur Young, the eighteenth‑century English agriculturist whose…

A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Epictetus

This volume presents a selection from the Discourses of Epictetus together with the Encheiridion, a work that…

Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477

Ruth Putnam

The work is a scholarly biography of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, written by Ruth Putnam in the early…

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

Eliza Poor Donner Houghton’s work is a first‑person memoir that intertwines personal recollection with a…

Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk

Sauk chief Black Hawk

This work is an autobiographical account dictated by Black Hawk, the Sauk chief who lived from 1767 to 1838,…

Edison: His Life and Inventions

Dyer, Frank Lewis; Martin, Thomas Commerford

The book is a biographical study of Thomas Alva Edison, written by his longtime associates Frank Lewis Dyer…

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

James Longstreet

From the outset, this work presents itself as a veteran’s account of the Confederate war effort, framed by…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives

United States. Work Projects Administration

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

A. T. Mahan

The work is a scholarly biography that situates Admiral Horatio Nelson within the strategic and political…