Biographies

Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865

Hector Berlioz

Ce volume est le récit autobiographique d’Hector Berlioz, compositeur français né en 1803, qui mêle souvenirs…

The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill

Leslie Stephen

The work is a scholarly biography that situates James Mill within the broader sweep of English…

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, a physician whose career spanned…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the second part of the South Carolina section of the United States Work Projects…

Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman

William Godwin

The work is a biographical memoir written by William Godwin, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, whose celebrated…

A Japanese Boy

Shigemi Shiukichi

The work is an autobiographical sketch by Shiukichi Shigemi, a Japanese youth who writes from the perspective…

Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840

Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

The work is a memoir by Dorothée Dino, later Duchess of Talleyrand and of Sagan, that records the political…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi

Giorgio Vasari

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

W. E. B. Du Bois

Darkwater is a collection of essays, poems, and reflections that W. E. B.

Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Francis Hobart Herrick

The work is a scholarly biography of John James Audubon that blends narrative with extensive documentary…

Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit (Jg. 26, 1879) Neue Folge

Various

Der „Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit“ ist ein wissenschaftlicher Jahresbericht des Germanischen…

Ein Mann Des Seefahrers und aufrechten Bürgers Joachim Nettelbeck wundersame Lebensgeschichte von ihm selbst erzählt

Joachim Nettelbeck

Dieses Werk ist die autobiografische Schilderung von Joachim Nettelbeck, einem Seemann und Bürger aus…

The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)

Leslie Stephen

The work is a scholarly survey of the English Utilitarian school, written by Leslie Stephen as a follow‑up to…

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This volume presents a faithful, unabridged edition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s surviving correspondence,…

Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2)

Arthur B. Chamberlain

This volume is a scholarly biography that sets out to give the most complete account possible of Hans Holbein…

Louis Philippe Makers of History Series

John S. C. Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical biography that traces the extraordinary fortunes of Louis…

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

Mary Prince

The work is a first‑person slave narrative, presented as “The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave”…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

Elbert Hubbard

The work is a biographical sketch that places Robert Owen, described as the “first businessman” and a…

The Life of Cicero, Volume II.

Anthony Trollope

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical study of Marcus Tullius Cicero, written by Anthony Trollope.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson

The work is a two‑volume collective biography of the Jacobite participants in the uprisings of 1715 and 1745,…

Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties

William Denison Lyman

Lyman’s History of Old Walla Walla County, Volume 2 is a regional reference work that chronicles the…

Napoleon

Herman Théodore Chappuis

Dit werk is een historisch overzicht van het leven van Napoleon I, samengesteld door luitenant‑kolonel H. Th.

The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert

Horace Wyndham

The work is a biographical study that treats the life of Lola Montez, the 19th‑century dancer‑courtesan who…

Political Women, Vol. 1

Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883

Political Women, Vol. I is a historical study by Sutherland Menzies that surveys the lives of a handful of…