Biography & Autobiography
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
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Fanny Kelly
"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon eve…
My Inventions and Other Works
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Nikola Tesla
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these wo…
Stories of Great Composers for Children
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Thomas Tapper
This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childho…
The Escaping Club
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A. J. Evans
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…
Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography
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Johannes Jorgensen
Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day,…
The Atrocities of the Pirates
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Aaron Smith
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…
Famous Men of Rome
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John Henry Haaren
Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for children. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)
Peter the Great
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Jacob Abbott
There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russia…
Bible (LSG, 1910) NT 04: Évangile selon Jean
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Louis Segond Bible
Ce quarante-troisième livre de la Bible, traduite par Louis Segond, au XIXe siècle et publiée au début du si&egr…
The Story of Napoleon
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …
Famous Men of Greece
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John Henry Haaren
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
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St. Ignatius Loyola
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Soc…
Henry Ford's Own Story
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Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the &q…
Early Kings of Norway
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Thomas Carlyle
"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fa…
Ten Days in a Madhouse
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Nellie Bly
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an …
My Life on the Plains
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George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…
The Confessions (Pusey translation)
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography e…
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Olive Gilbert
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…
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