Biographies

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2

Elizabeth Bisland

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2, edited by Elizabeth Bisland, is a compiled collection of…

Collections and Recollections

George William Erskine Russell

Collections and Recollections is a self‑styled “diary‑derived” miscellany by George William Erskine Russell,…

The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton

Lady Isabel Burton

The work is a biographical memoir of the explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton, written by his wife Isabel…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume is a sprawling essay‑type investigation into the Stevenson name, its many spellings, and the…

Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2)

Alfred von Reumont

Alfred von Reumont’s second volume on Lorenzo de’ Medici is a comprehensive historical study that begins with…

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)

L. Tyerman

Luke Tyerman’s two‑volume biography of George Whitefield opens with a vigorous defense of its scope and…

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 1. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 1 gathers the lyrical output of Scotland’s recent poets, those whose…

The Letters of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4)

William Milligan Sloane

The fourth volume of William Milligan Sloane’s four‑part “Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” is a dense…

History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great.

John S. C. Abbott

The work is a concise, single‑volume synthesis of John S. C.

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 04 (of 10) Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo

Giorgio Vasari

My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821

Alexandre Dumas

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, dated April 1852, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

Giordano Bruno

J. Lewis McIntyre

The work is a scholarly biography and philosophical sketch of Giordano Bruno, written by J.

A Civil Servant in Burma

Sir Herbert Thirkell White

The book is a memoir of a British civil servant who spent more than three decades in Burma, written by Sir…

American Men of Mind

Burton Egbert Stevenson

American Men of Mind is a biographical survey that attempts to assess the intellectual contributions of the…

Abraham Lincoln, Volume II

John T. Morse, Jr.

The work is a scholarly biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled by John T.

Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The volume presents a curated selection of Henry David Thoreau’s private correspondence, drawn from the…

Oscar Wilde

Guy Thorne

The book is a scholarly appreciation of Oscar Wilde, assembled by Robert Harborough Sherard and presented in…

Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This volume gathers the final three years of Cicero’s correspondence with his lifelong friend Titus Pomponius…

The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852

Charles Greville

The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 is a three‑volume diary that continues Charles C.

Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

George Frisbie Hoar

George Frisbie Hoar’s two‑volume Autobiography of Seventy Years is a self‑conscious memoir that opens with a…

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Three Years' War

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

Three Years' War is a first‑person memoir by Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, a Boer commander who took part in the…