Biographies

My Recollections of Lord Byron

Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di

The work is a memoir‑style biography written by Teresa Guiccioli, the Contessa di Guiccioli, who was Byron’s…

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1

Charles Darwin

The work is a biographical memoir assembled by Charles Darwin himself, opening with a detailed, almost…

My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War

Ben J. Viljoen

This work is a first‑hand memoir by General Ben J. Viljoen, a senior Boer commander who served as Assistant…

灵历集光

Shangjie Song

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

Giorgio Vasari

The volume is the first of Giorgio Vasari’s ten‑part “Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and…

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters

Charles Darwin

More Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 1 gathers a series of previously unpublished correspondences that…

The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV

Charles Greville

Charles Greville’s The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 is a personal journal that chronicles the political and…

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays is a polemical collection that opens with a vivid courtroom…

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life, Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography is a reference work that gathers concise sketches of notable figures in…

Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 4

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Ce quatrième tome des Mémoires d’Outre‑Tombe, écrit par le vicomte de Chateaubriand, se veut un témoignage…

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835

Albert J. Beveridge

Albert J. Beveridge’s fourth volume on John Marshall is a scholarly biography that situates the chief justice…

The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

The Bābur‑nāma is the autobiographical memoir of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, written in the…

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

John Hill Burton

The Book‑Hunter is a scholarly treatise on the art and habit of collecting books, presented in a single…

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859

John Morley

John Morley’s three‑volume biography of William Ewart Gladstone opens with a richly detailed portrait of the…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856

Charles Dickens

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1, 1833‑1856 gathers the novelist’s extensive correspondence, beginning…

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

Rupert Hughes

Rupert Hughes’s 1900 volume is a sweeping survey of American musical life at the turn of the century,…

Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

William H. C. Folsom

Fifty Years in the Northwest is a first‑person memoir that chronicles William H. C.

The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V

J. Castell Hopkins

The work is a biographical chronicle that follows the life of Edward VII, tracing his evolution from Prince…

Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

Marcosson, Isaac Frederick; Frohman, Daniel

The work is a detailed biographical study of Charles Frohman, the turn‑of‑the‑century American theatrical…

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

This work is a collection of the philosophical reflections of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Roman emperor…

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Walter Scott

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott is a personal diary drawn from the original manuscript kept at his Abbotsford…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery is Booker T. Washington’s autobiographical account, assembled from a series of articles that…

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

The Journals of Lewis and Clark present a day‑by‑day record of the Corps of Discovery’s early progress down…

The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s work is a nineteenth‑century literary study that treats Friedrich Schiller not merely as a…