Biographies

The Oxford Methodists: Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others

L. Tyerman

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical collection by L.

A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period

Ernest Mason Satow

This work is a first‑hand diplomatic memoir by Sir Ernest Satow, the British minister who served in Japan…

Barnum

M. R. Werner

The work is a scholarly biography of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the 19th‑century showman whose life spanned from…

My Life and Work

Ford, Henry; Crowther, Samuel

The book is an autobiographical essay by Henry Ford, written with the assistance of Samuel Crowther, that…

The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 1

Winter, William; Winter, William Jefferson

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The work is a meticulously compiled biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, assembled by her son Charles E.

Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

Justin Winsor

The work is a scholarly, documentary‑driven history of Christopher Columbus that opens with a formal…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 05

Ornithological biography, Vol. 3 (of 5): An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America

John James Audubon

John James Audubon’s third volume of Ornithological Biographies is a continuation of his monumental effort to…

The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer

Isambard Brunel

The book is a comprehensive, first‑person memoir of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s professional life, written by…

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Amél’s Journal Intime is a privately kept diary of the Swiss thinker Henri‑Frédéric Amél, published…

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

David Livingstone

David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa is a first‑person account that blends…

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Rafael Sabatini

The work is a historical study of Cesare Borgia, the flamboyant son of Pope Alexander VI, set against the…

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is John Bunyan’s autobiographical testimony, a devotional narrative…

The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

Theodore Edward Hook

The Letters of Henry James (Vol. II)

Henry James

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Maud Stepney Rawson

The work is a biographical study of Elizabeth Hardwick, better known as Bess of Hardwick, placed firmly…

War Letters of a Public-School Boy

Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

The work is a memoir‑driven compilation of the wartime correspondence of Lieutenant Henry Paul Mainwaring…

The Wright Brothers

Fred C. Kelly

Fred C. Kelly’s “The Wright Brothers” is a biographical account that aims to satisfy the curiosity of the…

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John

David Hume

David Hume’s “The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.

Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912

G. Greville Moore

My past and thoughts, vol. 1 (of 6): The memoirs of Alexander Herzen

Aleksandr Herzen

The work is the first volume of Alexander Herzen’s six‑part memoir, a sprawling autobiographical record that…

Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

Edward Gibbon

Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753‑1794) Volume 2 gathers the later correspondence of the famed…

An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections

Albert D. Vandam

The work is a sprawling memoir of an English visitor to nineteenth‑century Paris, written by Albert D.