Biography & Autobiography
Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart
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Paul L. Briand, Jr.
This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great he…
Meine Reise um die Welt Zweite Abteilung
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Mark Twain
Ein humoristischer Reisebericht über eine Reise von Australien nach Indien und Südafrika.(Zusammenfassung von Katharina21)
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed
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William Alexander MacKay
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen
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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Last of the Great Scouts
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Helen Cody Wetmore
A biographical account of the boy who became "Buffalo Bill" written by his sister. A wide variety of experiences from his first jo…
Les quarante fauteuils de l'Académie Française 1634-1886
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Charles Barthelémy
Depuis ses débuts en cercle de neuf amis, ensuite organisée et élargie sous la tutelle du cardinal de Richelieu en 1634…
The Life of Washington, Volume 5
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John James Marshall
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
My First Book (Version 2)
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Various
Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…
Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds
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Frederick J. Cross
In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV
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Justin Mccarthy
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Orville J. Victor
Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…
The Nobel Prize in 1904
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Various
The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…
Henry James At Work
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Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology
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Frederick Adams Woods
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…