Biographies

The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21

George Berkeley

The volume presents the first of four carefully edited collections of George Berkeley’s philosophical…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is Benjamin Franklin’s own autobiography, a self‑written portrait of a man who rose from a modest…

English and American tool builders

Joseph Wickham Roe

The book is a scholarly survey of the people who created the machines that make other machines, focusing on…

The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2

Sir Edward Tyas Cook

The work is a scholarly biography of Florence Nightingale compiled by Sir Edward Tyas Cook, who bases his…

Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati

Warren Crocker Herrick

This work is a biographical tribute to Frank Howard Nelson, the long‑time rector of Christ Church in…

S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance World

Sol Hurok

This book is a memoir by Sol Hurok, the impresario who famously “brought ballet to America and America to the…

Jane Austen and her works

Sarah Tytler

Sarah Tytler’s work is a scholarly compilation that brings together Jane Austen’s most representative novels…

Letters of a Javanese Princess

Raden Adjeng Kartini

The book is a collection of letters written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, a Javanese regent’s daughter born in…

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

The book is Ernest Shackleton’s own account of the Imperial Trans‑Antarctic Expedition of 1914‑1917,…

Three generations

Maud Howe Elliott

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Maud Howe Elliott, born in 1854 to the pioneering reformer Samuel…

Washington Irving

Henry Walcott Boynton

The work is a biographical sketch of Washington Irving, the first American writer to achieve lasting fame…

Twenty Years of My Life

Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

The work is a memoir‑style autobiography that doubles as a social history of the English literary world at…

Selections From Josephus

Flavius Josephus

The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2)

John Evelyn

The Diary of John Evelyn is a seventeenth‑century journal that records the thoughts and observations of a…

Mentana e il dito di Dio Episodi narrati dal superstite Ettore Pozzi - Seconda edizione, con importanti aggiunte fatte dall'Autore

Ernesto Pozzi

Il volume, pur di piccole dimensioni, si propone come testimonianza vivida di una fase cruciale della storia…

Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire

Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

The work is a scholarly biography of Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire, written by Evelyn S.

Luther, vol. 4 of 6

Hartmann Grisar

This fourth volume of Hartmann Grisar’s six‑part “Life of Luther” continues the author’s scholarly,…

Andrew Melville

William Morison

The work is a scholarly biography of Andrew Melville, the eminent 16th‑century Scottish reformer, written by…

Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, a Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc.

Samuel Gibbs French

Samuel G. French’s “Two Wars” is a sprawling autobiographical memoir that stitches together his experiences…

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee is a sprawling memoir that blends personal correspondence…

Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study

Edward Hutton

Edward Hutton’s work is a scholarly biography that sets out to assemble every known fact about Giovanni…

Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour", 1768-71

James Cook

This volume presents the original journal kept by James Cook while commanding H.M.

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 2: Turgot

John Morley

The work is an essay by John Morley, the second in the “Critical Miscellanies” series, focusing on the French…

The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

The work is the first volume of François‑René Chateaubriand’s sprawling autobiographical chronicle, the…