Biographies

How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves

Orison Swett Marden

Nietzsche: His Life and Works

Anthony M. Ludovici

The work is a scholarly tribute that situates Friedrich Nietzsche within a broader historical and cultural…

Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603

John Manningham

The work is a scholarly edition of a seventeenth‑century diary kept by John Manningham, a barrister of the…

Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 08 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

This volume gathers the entries Henry David Thoreau kept between September 1850 and September 1851, the…

Queens of the French Stage

H. Noel Williams

The work is a scholarly biography of the French actresses of the seventeenth‑century stage, focusing on the…

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

The work is an autobiographical sketch by Charles Darwin, presented as a candid recollection of his early…

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement

Colley Cibber

The work is a self‑authored memoir and commentary by Colley Cibber, the 18th‑century actor‑manager who…

Chaucer and His Times

Grace E. Hadow

Grace E. Hadow’s “Chaucer and His Times” is a scholarly study that opens with a detailed acknowledgment of…

James Fenimore Cooper

Mary Elizabeth Phillips

The work is a meticulously compiled biography of James Fenimore Cooper that presents his life as a “simply…

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore’s “Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5” is a biographical compilation that interweaves Byron’s own…

Life and works of Alexander Csoma de Körös: A biography compiled chiefly from hitherto unpublished data

Tivadar Duka

The work is a scholarly biography of Alexander Csoma de Körös, compiled by Tivadar Duka from a mixture of…

Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation

Henry Thornton Wharton

This volume is a scholarly compilation that brings together a concise biography of Sappho, the complete Greek…

Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892

Ohrwalder, Josef; Wingate, F. R. (Francis Reginald), Sir

The work is a first‑hand account of Father Josef Ohrwalder’s ten‑year imprisonment among the followers of the…

Reminiscences, 1819-1899

Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe’s Reminiscences, 1819‑1899 is an autobiographical memoir that begins with a candid confession…

The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

The volume is a curated anthology of poems and illustrations that honor Abraham Lincoln, assembled by Osborn…

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

John Howie

John Howie’s Biographia Scoticana is a concise biographical compendium that gathers, in a single volume, the…

The companions of Pickle Being a sequel to 'Pickle the spy'

Andrew Lang

The companion volume to Andrew Lang’s “Pickle the Spy” continues the author’s forensic examination of a…

The Kaiser's Memoirs

German Emperor William II

The Kaiser's Memoirs is an autobiographical account by William II, the German Emperor who ruled from 1888 to…

All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart

Amelia E. Barr

All of the work is presented as an autobiography by Amelia E.

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

Thomas Jefferson

The first volume of this nine‑part series presents the complete collected writings of Thomas Jefferson,…

The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles’s work is a revised biography of George Stephenson and his son Robert, framed by an extensive…

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

David Livingstone

The work is a posthumous compilation of David Livingstone’s own field notes taken during his final African…

Seekers after God

F. W. Farrar

The work is a scholarly biography of the Roman philosopher‑statesman Seneca, written by F. W. Farrar.

John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, volume 1 (of 3): An autobiography edited by his brother

John Gibson Paton

John G. Paton’s “Missionary to the New Hebrides” is an autobiographical account of a 19th‑century Scottish…