Biographies

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

Hermann Hagedorn

The work is a biographical narrative that places Theodore Roosevelt’s early ranching years within the mythic…

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work

A. S. Packard

This work is a scholarly biography of Jean‑Baptiste Lamarck, the French naturalist whose ideas laid early…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters

The volume presents a richly documented biography of the medieval lovers Heloise and Abelard, beginning with…

Books and bidders: The adventures of a bibliophile

A. S. W. Rosenbach

The work is a memoir‑essay collection by Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, a noted Philadelphia bibliophile, first…

The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André

Benson John Lossing

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical study that places the lives of Nathan Hale and John André side…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

This volume is a scholarly biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and…

100 New Yorkers of the 1970s

Max Millard

The book is a nonfiction collection of interviews that Max Millard conducted while working for the…

My Life as an Author

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative

Harry Kemp

The work is an autobiographical narrative that opens with a stark confession: the author, Harry Kemp, is…

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 2. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 2 presents a scholarly survey of Gaelic verse from the Reformation era…

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

Samuel Smiles

The work is a sweeping historical survey of railway development, written by Samuel Smiles as part of his…

Annie Besant: An Autobiography

Annie Besant

Annie Besant’s autobiography is a self‑portrait of a woman who lived through the turbulent Victorian and…

Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life

Jersey, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of

Fifty‑One Years of Victorian Life is a sprawling memoir by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child‑Villiers, Countess…

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The work is a sprawling memoir by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a 19th‑century explorer, geologist and…

Roughing It in the Bush

Susanna Moodie

The work is a first‑person account by Susanna Moodie, a nineteenth‑century pioneer who spent nineteen years…

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

John D. Rockefeller

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events is an informal memoir by John D.

Bismarck: some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor

Moritz Busch

This volume is the second of three in a series of diary entries kept by Dr Moritz Busch, who spent…

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865

Abraham Lincoln

The seventh volume of The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln gathers the president’s official…

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.

C. Raymond Beazley

The Truth about the Titanic

Archibald Gracie

The work is a first‑person memoir of Archibald Gracie, a passenger who survived the sinking of the Titanic on…

History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River, Volume 1 (of 2) Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge

Hiram Martin Chittenden

The work is a biographical history that began in the summer of 1896 when H. M.

Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1

John James Audubon

The work is a scholarly edition of John James Audubon’s own journals, compiled and introduced by his…

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1

Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume gathers the surviving correspondence of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author best known…

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II.

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Volume II is a sprawling historical narrative that picks up where the first…