Biographies

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record

Austen-Leigh, William; Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur

The book is a family‑record style biography of Jane Austen, compiled by her nephews William and Richard…

The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy

Helen Keller

The work is a three‑part autobiographical memoir by Helen Keller, presented in a scholarly edition compiled…

The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller

George Müller

The Life of Trust is a devotional journal that records George Müller’s inner struggles and outward movements…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870

Charles Dickens

The second volume of Charles Dickens’s correspondence gathers letters written between 1857 and 1870, chiefly…

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, 1844-1853: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

The volume presents a curated selection of Queen Victoria’s private and official correspondence from the…

Robert Burns. Vol. 1, La Vie

Auguste Angellier

Ce volume, signé Auguste Angellier, se présente comme une biographie‑essayiste de Robert Burns, poète…

A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century

A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography is a reference work that assembles concise sketches of notable Canadians…

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)

Thomas Jefferson

The volume presents a collection of Thomas Jefferson’s correspondence and essays from the late 1780s, a…

The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.

Mrs. Jameson

The work is a scholarly anthology that gathers together the poems, letters, and critical commentary…

Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo II

Adolf Friedrich von Schack

Este tomo II de la obra de Adolf Friedrich von Schack constituye una investigación histórica y crítica de la…

The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life

Frank Everett Stevens

Frank E. Stevens’s work is a comprehensive historical study of the Black Hawk War and the life of its…

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans is a collection of paired biographies that pits the great…

The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford

Charles William De la Poer Beresford

The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford are a first‑person naval autobiography by Charles William De la Poir…

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities

John Timbs

Tim John Timbs’s English Eccentrics and Eccentricities is a nineteenth‑century compendium of oddities drawn…

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

The work is an autobiographical account by Frederick Douglass, the former enslaved person from Maryland who…

Three years in the Sixth Corps: A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865

George T. Stevens

George T. Stevens’s work is a first‑hand regimental history of the Union’s Sixth Corps, written by a veteran…

Albert Gallatin

John Austin Stevens

John Austin Stevens’s work on Albert Gallatin is a scholarly biography that situates the Swiss‑born statesman…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

Elbert Hubbard

The work is a biographical survey of great speakers, and it begins with a sweeping meditation on labor,…

Cornish Characters and Strange Events

S. Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring‑Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events is a lively compendium of local legend, biography…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

Elbert Hubbard

The volume presents a sweeping, fictionalized portrait of the early life of Marcus Aurelius, framed as a…

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work is an autobiographical memoir by the eighteenth‑century French philosopher Jean‑Jacques Rousseau,…

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium‑Eater is a first‑person autobiographical essay that…

Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I

Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon

The work is a first‑person memoir by Baron Fleury de Chaboulon, a former secretary of Napoleon and a senior…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

Elbert Hubbard

The work is a biographical narrative that traces the early encounter and developing intimacy between the…