Biographies

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

The work is an autobiographical account by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte, known as Madame Guyon, a French…

The Facts About Shakespeare

Neilson, William Allan; Thorndike, Ashley Horace

The book is a scholarly survey of Shakespeare’s world, written by William Allan Neilson and Ashley Horace…

Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot

Austin Craig

The work is a scholarly biography of José Rizal, the pre‑eminent Filipino patriot, written by Austin Craig.

Robert Burns. Vol. 2, Les Oeuvres

Auguste Angellier

Ce volume, rédigé par Auguste Angellier, se présente comme une étude critique de la réception de Robert Burns…

Ricordi d'infanzia e di scuola seguìti da Bambole e marionette, Gente minima, Piccoli studenti, Adolescenti, Due di spade e due di cuori

Edmondo De Amicis

Il libro è un ricordo autobiografico che si dipana tra i primi anni di vita dell’autore, Edmondo De Amicis, e…

The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa

Paul Barron Watson

The work is a scholarly history of Gustav I Vasa, king of Sweden from 1523 to 1560, written by Paul Barron…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10) Filarete and Simone to Mantegna

Giorgio Vasari

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

The volume is a sweeping biographical compendium that presents more than two hundred sketches of the most…

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Jasper Danckaerts

The volume presents the 1679‑1680 journal of Jasper Danckaerts, a Dutch‑born Labadist envoy, together with…

Lincoln's Birthday: a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings

This volume is a curated anthology that gathers the most noteworthy essays, orations, fiction, and poems…

The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4)

John Charles Dent

The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 3 (of 3)

L. Tyerman

The third volume of Luke Tyerman’s three‑part biography of John Wesley offers a dense chronicle of the…

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States

John Marshall

The work is a multi‑volume biography of George Washington, compiled by John Marshall and organized into a…

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I

Sir John Ross

The work is a meticulously compiled memoir and correspondence of Admiral Lord James Saumarez, presented in a…

Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography

George William Erskine Russell

The work is an autobiographical memoir by George William Erskine Russell, a nineteenth‑century English…

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons is a first‑hand account of Union soldiers’ suffering in…

When Life Was Young: At the Old Farm in Maine

C. A. Stephens

The work is a nostalgic juvenile narrative set on a Maine farm, tracing the lineage of a Revolutionary‑war…

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends memoir, campaign history, and…

A Woman who went to Alaska

May Kellogg Sullivan

The work is a first‑person memoir that chronicles a woman’s eighteen‑month sojourn among the roughest mining…

Wesley's Designated Successor The Life, Letters, and Literary Labours of the Rev. John William Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire

L. Tyerman

The work is a scholarly biography of John William Fletcher, the eminent Methodist theologian and “designated…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870

Charles Dickens

The third volume of The Letters of Charles Dickens covers the period from 1836 to 1870, gathering together…

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

A. T. Mahan

From the outset, this work presents itself as a reflective memoir by Alfred Thayer Mahan, the famed United…

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray’s work is a memoir‑like collection that intertwines personal recollections with a suite…

The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief

Morrison Heady

The work is a nineteenth‑century juvenile biography that frames George Washington’s early life as “The Farmer…