Author: Jesse Clement

Language: English

Published: 1857

Language: English

Published: 1906

This volume attempts to give a short account of Herbert Spencer's life, an appreciation of his characteristics, and a statement of some of the services he rendered to science.

Language: English

Published: 1906

Language: English

Published: 1912

To the Boston Browning society in commemoration of the Browning centenary 1812-1912.

Language: English

Published: 1908

Practically an abbreviation of The life and letters (1887)

Author: Francis A. Cunningham

Language: English

Published: 1841

Language: English

Published: 1885

With this book, Sarah Knowles Bolton wants to show the world that with work and will you can come a long way and poverty need not stand in your way. She has chosen famous men from different historical epochs and describes how they succeeded and became famous.

Language: Italian

Published: 1884

A biography of Italian national hero Garibaldi.

Language: English

Published: 1906

This biography is largely a composition of letters written by and to Charles James Lever. The compilation of the letters has been made by Edmund Downey.

Language: English

Published: 1906

This is the second and last volume of this biography, largely a composition of letters written by and to Charles James Lever. The compilation of the letters has been made by Edmund Downey.

Language: English

Published: 1896

Charles Gounod looks back at his life and the music in it.

Language: Portugues

Published: 1919

An autobiography by portuguese writer and journalist Raul Brandão

Author: Amelia Edith Barr

Language: English

Published: 1913

An autobiography by British American novelist and mother of six, Amelia Edith Barr, published only six years before her death. She ends the preface with: I write mainly for the kindly race of women. I am their sister, and in no way exempt from their sorrowful lot. I have drank the cup of theirlimitations to the dregs, and if my experience can help any sad or doubtful woman to outleap her own shadow, and to stand bravely out in the sunshine to meet her destiny, whatever it may be, I shall have done well; I shall not have written this book in vain. It will be its own excuse, and justify its appeal.

Author: Elizabeth Reid

Language: English

Published: 1890

Written by his Widow, Elizabeth, this memoir covers the life of Captain Mayne Reid. Mayne Reid was a popular author of children's books of the more adventurous kind. At the time of his death he had published well over seventy novels.

Author: Samuel Thompson

Language: English

Published: 1884

Language: English

Published: 1915

The autobiography of Australian novelist Louise Mack.

Language: English

Published: 1712

Author: Stefan Zweig

Language: English

Published: 1921

Language: French

Language: English

Published: 1914

A biography by one of last century's most important persons. Her work with women's rights has yet to meet its match.

Language: English

Published: 1919

A biography over Roosevelt's childhood and the effects of his upbringing on his Understanding of the lives of the american people.

A true story of American stage life

Author: Anonymous

Language: English

Published: 1912

In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and strict adherence to the truth, relative to the conditions which surround the player. In no instance has there been either exaggeration or a resort to imaginative creation. It is a true story with all the ugliness of truth unsoftened and unembellished. Nor is the situation presented an exceptional one. One has but to follow the career of the average actor to be convinced that the dramatic profession is not only inconsistent with but wholly hostile to the institution of marriage. Managers and actors alike know and admit this to be the truth—amongst themselves. What they say in print is, of course, merely so much self-exploitation.

Language: English

Published: 1908

A useful little biographical sketch of the great Anarchist-Communist, to give Peter Kropotkin the rather self-contradictory title he claims for himself. Its author, Victor Robinson, is a young man of marked ability and literary ambition who may do good and valuable work if he can only be induced to drop all his affectations and write simply.

The story of a little boy who was forced to practice

Author: Thomas Tapper

Language: English

Published: 1917

Language: Portugues

Published: 1917

Language: English

Published: 1854

Language: English

Published: 1885

In this little volume I have endeavoured to present the life and work of Charles Darwin viewed as a moment in a great revolution, in due relation both to those who went before and to those who come after him. Recognising, as has been well said, that the wave makes the crest, not the crest the wave, I have tried to let my hero fall naturally into his proper place in a vast onward movement of the human intellect, of which he was himself at once a splendid product and a moving cause of the first importance. I have attempted to show him both as receiving the torch from Lamarck and Malthus, and as passing it on with renewed brilliancy to the wide school of evolutionary thinkers whom his work was instrumental in arousing to fresh and vigorous activity along a thousand separate and varied lines of thought and action.

Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen

Author: Roger Langdon

Language: English

The career of Roger Langdon provides for all of us a striking illustration of what force of character will accomplish even in the humblest surroundings and in the face of the most serious obstacles. Such men working persistently onwards and upwards with such slight recognition and encouragement are the real heroes of life, and their memory should be kept green for the benefit of those who come after them. Includes a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.

Author: Ella Kent Barnard

Language: English

Published: 1909

There is little time in this busy world of ours for reading,—little, indeed, for thinking;—and there are already many books; but perhaps these few additional pages relating to Dolly Madison, who was loved and honored during so many years by our people, may be not altogether amiss.

Famous American Indians

Author: George Cary Eggleston

Language: English

Published: 1878