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ReadReminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
George H. Ham
Reminiscences of a Raconteur is an autobiographical memoir by George H.
ReadLives of the electricians: Professors Tyndall, Wheatstone, and Morse.
William T. Jeans
The work is a biographical survey of three leading 19th‑century electricians, John Tyndall, Charles…
ReadAndré Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
Michaux, André; Harris, Thaddeus Mason; Michaux, François André
This volume gathers three early‑American travel narratives, André Michaux’s Kentucky journal (1793‑96),…
Forty years of 'Spy'
Sir Leslie Ward
The work is an extensive autobiographical memoir by Sir Leslie Ward, the celebrated caricaturist known as…
A New Medley of Memories
Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair
The work is a memoir‑like chronicle written by David O. Hunter‑Blair, a Benedictine monk who records his…
ReadExperiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency A Lecture Delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London
Nikola Tesla
This volume is a transcription of a lecture delivered by Nikola Tesla before the Institution of Electrical…
ReadLetters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life
Ignatius Sancho
This work is a collection of the surviving letters of Ignatius Sancho, an African-born man who rose from the…
ReadFrom Immigrant to Inventor
Michael Pupin
The work is an autobiographical memoir by Michael Pupin, a Serbian immigrant who became a prominent American…
ReadMemoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 2 of 2)
Bertha von Suttner
The volume is the second half of Bertha von Suttner’s autobiographical memoirs, a chronicle that intertwines…
ReadThe Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von
The work is a travel memoir presented as a series of letters from the German nobleman Charles‑Lewis, Baron de…
ReadMemoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de
This volume gathers the memoirs, letters and assorted manuscripts of the French aristocrat‑general who became…
Men of Invention and Industry
Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles’s Men of Invention and Industry is a biographical survey of the engineers, shipbuilders, and…
ReadPetrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance
Francesco Petrarca
This volume assembles a selection of Petrarch’s letters to Boccaccio and other contemporaries, presented as a…
ReadMy Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831
Alexandre Dumas
The volume is a continuation of Alexandre Dumas’s autobiographical series, covering the tumultuous years of…
ReadGeorge Borrow, the Man and His Work
R. A. J. Walling
The work is a scholarly monograph by R. A. J. Walling that seeks to revise the popular image of George Borrow…
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
The book is a biographical compilation devoted to the life of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the…
ReadAlfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
Wallace, Alfred Russel; Marchant, James, Sir
The volume gathers Alfred Russel Wallace’s scientific papers and the correspondence that accompanied them…
ReadThe Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July
Alban Butler
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol.
ReadAnthony Trollope; His Work, Associates and Literary Originals
T. H. S. Escott
The work is a biographical study of the novelist Anthony Trollope, written by the Victorian scholar T. H. S.
South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson
The work is a first‑person memoir by Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson, written in 1909, that chronicles her…
ReadLife and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 2
John Hill Burton
The work is a scholarly compilation of David Hume’s later life, assembled from papers bequeathed by his…
ReadWilliam Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp
Elizabeth A. Sharp
The book is a memoir compiled by Elizabeth A. Sharp, the wife of poet‑writer William Sharp, whose dual…
The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse
Thérèse, de Lisieux, Saint
The volume is the complete French‑language autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, rendered in English as…
ReadThe Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.
Henry Dircks
The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly memoir that seeks to assemble, for the first time, a coherent…