Biographies

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Leander Stillwell

Leander Stillwell’s manuscript is a first‑person account of a Union infantryman’s service from enlistment in…

Vie de Jésus

Ernest Renan

Ce volume, signé Ernest Renan, se présente comme une étude historique de la figure centrale du christianisme…

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2

Harry Furniss

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Volume 1 is a sweeping biographical compendium that sketches the lives of more…

William Shakespeare

John Masefield

The Biography of a Grizzly

Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton’s The Biography of a Grizzly is a juvenile‑fiction narrative that follows the early…

The Complete Golfer

Harry Vardon

The Complete Golfer is a practical manual written by the five‑time champion Harry Vardon, who frames the work…

Working With the Working Woman

Cornelia Stratton Parker

Cornelia Stratton Parker’s Working With the Working Woman is a sociological survey that blends personal…

Frau Pauline Brater: Lebensbild einer deutschen Frau

Agnes Sapper

Dieses Werk ist eine biografische Darstellung von Pauline Brater, einer deutschen Frau, deren Leben von der…

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)

Shearjashub Spooner

The work is a compendium of biographical sketches and critical commentary on the great masters of European…

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

Edward Alexander Moore

The work is a first‑hand memoir by Edward Alexander Moore, a private cannon crewman in the Rockbridge…

Pyrrhus Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott’s work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that treats the life of Pyrrhus, king of…

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 2 is a compendium of concise biographical sketches that together portray the…

A Poor Man's House

Stephen Sydney Reynolds

Stephen Sydney Reynolds’s “A Poor Man’s House” is a nonfiction portrait that grew out of the author’s own…

Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2

Ian Hamilton

The volume is a wartime diary by Sir Ian Hamilton, the British commander who led the Gallipoli campaign, and…

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Volume 4 is a biographical compendium that sketches the lives of more than two…

A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison: Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners.

Benjamin Waterhouse

This work is a first‑person journal kept by Benjamin Waterhouse, a young Massachusetts surgeon who served…

Alguns homens do meu tempo: Impressões Litterarias

Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho

Este volume reúne as memórias e reflexões de Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho, escrita entre 1888 e 1900,…

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

J. Wilkinson

John Wilkinson’s “The Narrative of a Blockade‑runner” is a first‑hand memoir that blends personal…

Charles I Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that sets out to tell the life of Charles I for a young…

Raleigh

Edmund Gosse

The work is a scholarly biography of Sir Walter Raleigh that situates his life apart from the broader…

Mary Wollstonecraft

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

This work is a scholarly biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and first…

American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt

Edward Stratemeyer

This work is a juvenile biography of Theodore Roosevelt, compiled by Edward Stratemeyer and catalogued under…

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political

Franklin K. Lane

The volume presents a curated selection of Franklin K. Lane’s personal and official correspondence, drawn…