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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Roughing It

Mark Twain

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

Boswell's Life of Johnson

James Boswell

My Life and Work

Henry Ford

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

The Americanization of Edward Bok

Edward Bok

Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey

Chapters from My Autobiography

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Theodore Roosevelt

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

John Henry Newman

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

W. H. Davies

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition

Ernest Shackleton

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne

Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum

Joel Benton

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume 1

Ulysses S. Grant

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Mark Twain

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volume 1

Mark Twain

Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave

Elizabeth Keckley

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Nat Love

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

Edmund Gosse

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

John Muir

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir

A Personal Record

Joseph Conrad

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Theodore Roosevelt

Memories and Portraits

Robert Louis Stevenson

An Inland Voyage

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 1

William T. Sherman

Memoirs of My Life and Writings

Edward Gibbon

Life of John Sterling

Thomas Carlyle

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

Henry Fielding

Franklin's Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

da Vinci Leonardo

Sailing Alone Around the World

Joshua Slocum

The People of the Abyss

Jack London

John Barleycorn

Jack London

How I found Livingstone

Henry M. Stanley

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

David Livingstone

20 hrs., 40 min.

Amelia Earhart

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Abolition Fanaticism in New York

Frederick Douglass

Indian Boyhood

Charles A. Eastman

Autobiography of Black Hawk

Sauk chief Black Hawk

Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

William Craft

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Nat Turner

Cudjo's own story of the last African slaver

Zora Neale Hurston

The Spy of the Rebellion

Allan Pinkerton

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

My own story

Emmeline Pankhurst

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Margaret Sanger: an autobiography

Margaret Sanger

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Elizabeth Blackwell

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole

The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation

Carry Amelia Nation

The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de Marbot

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army

Philip Henry Sheridan

Records of a Family of Engineers

Robert Louis Stevenson

Vailima Letters

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mark Twain's Letters

Mark Twain

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Roughing It in the Bush

Susanna Moodie

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

The Wound Dresser

Walt Whitman

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville

Washington Irving

The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon

John Filson

David Crockett: His Life and Adventures

John S. C. Abbott

Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of "Buffalo Bill"

Helen Cody Wetmore

"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace

John M. Burke

The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself

Cole Younger

Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

J. A. Dacus

The Voyages of Captain Scott

Charles Turley

A voyage to the South Sea

William Bligh

The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith

John Smith

Henry Hudson: A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements

Thomas A. Janvier

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

Watkin Tench

The Confessions of a Beachcomber

E. J. Banfield

Station Life in New Zealand

Lady Barker

Over Prairie Trails

Frederick Philip Grove

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

Mina Hubbard

The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration

Richard Francis, Sir Burton

The Life of Sir Richard Burton

Thomas Wright

The romance of Isabel Lady Burton

Isabel, Lady Burton

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope

Hester, Lady Stanhope

Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope

Hester, Lady Stanhope

The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter

Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions

Frank Harris

A Peep Into the Past

Max, Sir Beerbohm

My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

William Dean Howells

My Literary Passions

William Dean Howells

Life and Letters of Robert Browning

Sutherland, Mrs. Orr

Life of Robert Browning

William Sharp

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

More Letters of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Grant Allen

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

Autobiography and Selected Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley

The Life of John Bunyan

Edmund Venables

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

John Bunyan

Bunyan

James Anthony Froude

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Fanny Burney

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Letters from America

Rupert Brooke

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis

Real Soldiers of Fortune

Richard Harding Davis

Philo-Judæus of Alexandria

Norman Bentwich

Rashi

Maurice Liber

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon

Louis Constant Wairy

Napoleon Bonaparte

John S. C. Abbott

The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)

J. Holland Rose

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812

Emperor of the French Napoleon I

A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French

Ida M. Tarbell

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Charles Duke Yonge

Marie Antoinette

Hilaire Belloc

Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency

Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d' Orléans

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

Louis XIV

John S. C. Abbott

Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan

Madame de Montespan

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI

Mme. Du Hausset

Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry

Etienne-Léon, baron de Lamothe-Langon

Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France Marguerite

The Memoirs of Count Grammont

Anthony, Count Hamilton

Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II

Empress of Russia Catherine II

Peter the Great

Jacob Abbott

Mary Queen of Scots

Jacob Abbott

Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia

William Fiddian Reddaway

Oliver Cromwell

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Oliver Cromwell

Theodore Roosevelt

Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England

C. H. Firth

William the Third

H. D. Traill

Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition

Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree

The Wives of Henry the Eighth

Martin A. S. Hume

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon

James Anthony Froude

The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

George Cavendish

Queen Victoria

Anonymous

Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood

Grace Greenwood

William Ewart Gladstone

James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

James Wycliffe Headlam

Bismarck

Moritz Busch

Cavour

Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa Martinengo-Cesaresco

The life of Mazzini

Bolton King

Danton: A study

Hilaire Belloc

Madame Roland: A Biographical Study

Ida M. Tarbell

Talleyrand: A Biographical Study

Joseph McCabe

Cardinal de Richelieu

Eleanor C. Price

The Kaiser's Memoirs

German Emperor William II

My Four Years in Germany

James W. Gerard

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Henry Morgenthau

Thirteen Years at the Russian Court

Pierre Gilliard

Memories of the Russian Court

Anna Aleksandrovna Vyrubova

Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life

Nathaniel W. Stephenson

Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence

George Haven Putnam

Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

Frank Crosby

Lincoln's yarns and stories

Alexander K. McClure

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

George Alfred Townsend

Lincoln's Last Hours

Charles A. Leale

Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on

Walter Hawkins

John Brown

W. E. B. Du Bois

A Voice from Harper's Ferry

Osborne P. Anderson

The Life of Francis Marion

William Gilmore Simms

The Life of General Francis Marion

M. L. Weems

Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement

Harold Howland

American Ideals, and Other Essays

Theodore Roosevelt

Letters to His Children

Theodore Roosevelt

Camping with President Roosevelt

John Burroughs

Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt

John Burroughs

My Boyhood

John Burroughs

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

John D. Rockefeller

Edison: His Life and Inventions

Frank Lewis Dyer

The Wright Brothers

Fred C. Kelly

The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone

Thomas Augustus Watson

Henry Ford: Highlights of His Life

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village

Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point

Henry Ossian Flipper

The Reign of Andrew Jackson: A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics

Frederic Austin Ogg

John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court

Edward Samuel Corwin

The works of Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

The Life Of Thomas Paine

Moncure Daniel Conway

Life of Thomas Paine

Richard Carlile

Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

Robert Green Ingersoll

Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook

Andrew Kippis

The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator

Arthur Kitson

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery

Filson Young

Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America

Alexander Mackenzie

Drake, Nelson and Napoleon

Walter Runciman, Baron Runciman

The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson

Robert Southey

The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton

Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson

With Lawrence in Arabia

Lowell Thomas

Count Luckner, the Sea Devil

Lowell Thomas

Forty-One Years in India

Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl Roberts

Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker

Catherine, Princess Radziwill

Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892

Josef Ohrwalder

Fire and Sword in the Sudan

Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von Slatin

General Gordon, Saint and Soldier

Joseph Wardle

General Gordon

Seton Churchill

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

Winston Churchill

My Reminiscences of East Africa

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

Anna Harriette Leonowens

Fifteen Years Among the Top-Knots; Or, Life in Korea

Lillias H. Underwood

China under the Empress Dowager

J. O. P. Bland

With the Empress Dowager of China

Katharine A. Carl

A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden

Horace Holden

The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger

Johannes Schiltberger

My life in Sarawak

Margaret, Lady Brooke

Beethoven, the Man and the Artist

Ludwig van Beethoven

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work

Johann Nikolaus Forkel

Life of Mozart

Otto Jahn

Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas

John F. Runciman

Letters of Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries

Albrecht Dürer

Dürer

M. F. Sweetser

Fra Angelico

I. B. Supino

The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

William Blake, the Man

Charles Gardner

William Blake, Painter and Poet

Richard Garnett

Great Astronomers

Robert S. Ball

James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics

Richard Glazebrook

Joseph Priestley

T. E. Thorpe

William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood

Thomas Henry Huxley

Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia

Karl von Gebler

Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

Louis Agassiz

The Life of the Fly

Jean-Henri Fabre

Fabre, Poet of Science

Georges Victor Legros

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences

Alfred Russel Wallace

Antonio Stradivari

Horace Petherick

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi

Candide Chalippe

Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition

Thomas M'Crie

Catharine de Bora

John G. Morris

Private Papers of William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce

The Story of Joan of Arc

Andrew Lang

Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death

Mrs. Oliphant

The Life of Joan of Arc

Anatole France

The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary

George Smith

The White Queen of Okoyong

W. P. Livingstone

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield

L. Tyerman

The Grimké sisters

Catherine H. Birney

Harriet, the Moses of Her People

Sarah H. Bradford

The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918

Millicent Garrett, Dame Fawcett

Florence Nightingale: A Biography

Annie Matheson

A Noble Woman: The Life-Story of Edith Cavell

Ernest Protheroe

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

R. H. Gronow

My Memoirs

Alexandre Dumas

Celebrated Crimes (Complete)

Alexandre Dumas

A Book of Scoundrels

Charles Whibley

On the Stage--and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor

Jerome K. Jerome

Diary of a Pilgrimage

Jerome K. Jerome

The Confessions of a Caricaturist

Harry Furniss

George Cruikshank

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Autobiography of a Thief

Hutchins Hapgood

The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck

Friedrich, Freiherr von der Trenck

Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Richard, Sir Steele

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones

Timothy Dexter

Dave Ranney; or, Thirty Years on the Bowery

Dave Ranney

The Book of Gallant Vagabonds

Henry Beston

Famous Affinities of History

Lyndon Orr

Ten Years' Exile

Madame de Staël

The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Ida M. Tarbell

Passages from the English Notebooks

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met

William Wells Brown

A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince

Nancy Prince

A Colored Man Round the World

David F. Dorr

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

Austin Steward

Narrative of Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Theodore Canot

The Life of Omar ibn Said

Omar ibn Said

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

Ulysses S. Grant

Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States

Raphael Semmes

Destruction and Reconstruction

Richard Taylor

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy

A Virginia Girl in the Civil War

Myrta Lockett Avary

A Southern Woman's Story

Phoebe Yates Pember

Bullets & Billets

Bruce Bairnsfather

High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France

James Norman Hall

Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun

James R. McConnell

Winged warfare

William Avery Bishop

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains

William F. Drannan

Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881

James B. Gillett

Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform

Albert Bigelow Paine

A Mountain Boyhood

Joe Mills

Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper

E. N. Woodcock

A Woman Tenderfoot

Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

A Tenderfoot Bride: Tales from an Old Ranch

Clarice E. Richards

A Woman who went to Alaska

May Kellogg Sullivan

Alaska Days with John Muir

Samuel Hall Young

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

M. G. C. Hall

A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia

Charles, Mrs. Clacy

The land of gold; or, Three years in California

Walter Colton

The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire

Charles Morris

Johnson's Lives of the Poets

Samuel Johnson

Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales

Samuel Johnson

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Rafael Sabatini

The Women of the French Salons

Amelia Gere Mason

La Grande Mademoiselle, 1627-1652

Arvède Barine

Ellen Terry and Her Sisters

T. Edgar Pemberton

Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

A. T., Mrs. Thomson

Men of Invention and Industry

Samuel Smiles

Lives of the Engineers: George and Robert Stephenson

Samuel Smiles

The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer

Samuel Smiles

The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer

Isambard Brunel

Comrade Kropotkin

Victor Robinson

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

Johan Huizinga

The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More

Frederic Seebohm

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson Seton

Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time

Charles Kingsley

Montrose

Mowbray Morris

Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477

Ruth Putnam

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete

Giacomo Casanova

The Promised Land

Mary Antin

Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography

William Roscoe Thayer

Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete

Albert Bigelow Paine

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One

Margot Asquith

Abraham Lincoln

Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

Synge and the Ireland of His Time

W. B. Yeats

Four Years

W. B. Yeats

The Trembling of the Veil

W. B. Yeats

The Letters of Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Memoir of Jane Austen

James Edward Austen-Leigh

Jane Austen and Her Times

G. E. Mitton

A Life of William Shakespeare

Sidney Lee

Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life of Beethoven

Anton Schindler

Tolstoy

Romain Rolland

Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy

S. A. Tolstaia

Frederick Douglass

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Underground Railroad

William Still

Reminiscences, 1819-1899

Julia Ward Howe

The World I Live In

Helen Keller

On the edge of the primeval forest

Albert Schweitzer

The Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt

The Story of Slavery

Booker T. Washington

My Ten Years' Imprisonment

Silvio Pellico

Margaret Ogilvy

J. M. Barrie

The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch

Plutarch

Letters of Pliny

Pliny

Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor

George Webbe Dasent

The Mirrors of Washington

Clinton W. Gilbert

Glimpses of Bengal

Rabindranath Tagore

A Minstrel in France

Harry Lauder

Letters of Travel (1892-1913)

Rudyard Kipling

My Home in the Field of Honor

Frances Wilson Huard

The Mirrors of Downing Street

Harold Begbie

Musicians of to-day

Romain Rolland

Private Peat

Harold Reginald Peat

My Second Year of the War

Frederick Palmer

My Reminiscences

Rabindranath Tagore

"Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went

Arthur Guy Empey

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

Winston Churchill

The Backwash of War

Ellen N. La Motte

Michelangelo

Romain Rolland

Reveries over Childhood and Youth

W. B. Yeats

Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov

Maksim Gorky

Lord Randolph Churchill

Winston Churchill

Diplomatic Days

Edith O'Shaughnessy

Oscar Wilde, a study

André Gide

Beethoven

Romain Rolland

Memoirs of Mistral

Frédéric Mistral

Fifteen years of a dancer's life

Loie Fuller

Dostoevsky

André Gide

Robert Louis Stevenson

Walter Alexander Raleigh

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains

Charles A. Eastman

The Story of a Pioneer

Anna Howard Shaw

Kansas Women in Literature

Nettie Garmer Barker

Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis

Various

John Jacob Astor

Elbert Hubbard

Miracle Mongers and Their Methods

Harry Houdini

Tracks of a Rolling Stone

Henry J. Coke

Pictures from Italy

Charles Dickens

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Robert Louis Stevenson

Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch

Edward Sylvester Ellis

James Otis, the Pre-Revolutionist

John Clark Ridpath

Henry James, Jr.

William Dean Howells

The Star-Spangled Banner

John A. Carpenter

Emile Zola

William Dean Howells

A Young Girl's Diary

Sigmund Freud

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella L. Bird

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son

Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi

The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore

P. Power

Two Years in the Forbidden City

Der Ling

Heroes of the Telegraph

John Munro

William the Conqueror

Edward A. Freeman

Sidney Lanier

Edwin Mims

Faraday as a Discoverer

John Tyndall

Some Reminiscences

Joseph Conrad

The Twin Hells

John N. Reynolds

The Life of Columbus

Edward Everett Hale

The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln

Helen Nicolay

Hero Tales from American History

Henry Cabot Lodge

The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative

Robert Lansing

The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War

D. Thomas Curtin

France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization

Rudyard Kipling

The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)"

Ian Hay

Carry On: Letters in War-Time

Coningsby Dawson

A Student in Arms: Second Series

Donald Hankey

An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker

Cornelia Stratton Parker

Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality

Harold Begbie

My Memories of Eighty Years

Chauncey M. Depew

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

The Experiences of a Bandmaster

John Philip Sousa

The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

William Gardner

Karl Ludwig Sand

Alexandre Dumas

My Life and My Efforts

Karl May

The Life of Flavius Josephus

Flavius Josephus

The Story of Pocahontas

Charles Dudley Warner

Captain John Smith

Charles Dudley Warner

Women in the Life of Balzac

Juanita Helm Floyd

At Suvla Bay

John Hargrave

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain

Albert Bigelow Paine

The Life of George Borrow

Herbert George Jenkins

The Eureka Stockade

Raffaello Carboni

Chaucer

Adolphus William Ward

Honoré de Balzac

Albert Keim

Life of Bunyan

James Hamilton

Alfred Tennyson

Andrew Lang

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

John H. Haaren

Haydn

J. Cuthbert Hadden

Balzac

Frederick Lawton

The Days Before Yesterday

Frederic Hamilton

On the Trail of Grant and Lee

Frederick Trevor Hill

The Journal to Stella

Jonathan Swift

An Autobiography

Catherine Helen Spence

Among the Tibetans

Isabella L. Bird

Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Lester Pearson

Life of Chopin

Franz Liszt

Biographies of Working Men

Grant Allen

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Addington Symonds

Björnstjerne Björnson, 1832-1910

William Morton Payne

Starr King in California

William Day Simonds

Seven Wives and Seven Prisons

L. A. Abbott

Lives of the English Poets

Samuel Johnson

My Robin

Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Traveller in War-Time

Winston Churchill

The Story of My Life — Complete

Georg Ebers

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal

Sarah J. Richardson

An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

Station Amusements in New Zealand

Barker

Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe

Ann Fanshawe

The Making of an American

Jacob A. Riis

Fletcher of Madeley

Margaret Allen

Biographical Essays

Thomas De Quincey

Here, There and Everywhere

Frederic Hamilton

Round the World

Andrew Carnegie

Personal Experience of a Physician

John Ellis

Our Friend John Burroughs

Clara Barrus

Chaucer's Official Life

James R. Hulbert

Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear

Theresa Gowanlock

Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago

Canniff Haight

Fielding

Austin Dobson

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mrs. Shelley

Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti

God's Answers

Clara M. S. Lowe

The Spirit of 1906

George W. Brooks

The Wentworth Letter

Joseph Smith

Woman on the American Frontier

William Worthington Fowler

Christopher Columbus

Mildred Stapley Byne

The Life of Abraham Lincoln

Henry Ketcham

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time

Helen Campbell

Mark Twain

Archibald Henderson

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson

Pierre Esprit Radisson

Memories of Hawthorne

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

A Biography of Edmund Spenser

John W. Hales

The Secrets of the German War Office

Armgaard Karl Graves

Hawthorne and His Circle

Julian Hawthorne

Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag

S. O. Susag

The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"

Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter

Prisoner for Blasphemy

G. W. Foote

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885

T. Wemyss Reid

Catherine Booth — a Sketch

Mildred Duff

My Tropic Isle

E. J. Banfield

The Biography of a Rabbit

Roy Benson

Fra Bartolommeo

Leader Scott

Cambridge Sketches

Frank Preston Stearns

Horace

Theodore Martin

The Opium Habit

Horace B. Day

Nathaniel Hawthorne

George Edward Woodberry

My Friends at Brook Farm

John Van der Zee Sears

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

Ernest Scott

Autobiographic Sketches

Thomas De Quincey

Our Hundred Days in Europe

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Travels in Alaska

John Muir

The Lincoln Story Book

Henry Llewellyn Williams

Letters of Catherine Benincasa

of Siena Catherine

John James Audubon

John Burroughs

Trials and Triumphs of Faith

Mary Cole

Confessions and Criticisms

Julian Hawthorne

To Infidelity and Back

Henry F. Lutz

Leonardo Da Vinci

Maurice W. Brockwell

Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete

Aaron Burr

Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey

Washington Irving

Life of Luther

Julius Köstlin

Sketches and Studies

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lincoln Letters

Abraham Lincoln

Personal Recollections

Charlotte Elizabeth

Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him

Joseph P. Tumulty

Life in the Clearings versus the Bush

Susanna Moodie

Henrik Ibsen

Edmund Gosse

Three years in Tristan da Cunha

Katherine Mary Barrow

Cuba in War Time

Richard Harding Davis

Life in the Backwoods

Susanna Moodie

The Subterranean Brotherhood

Julian Hawthorne

A Study of Hawthorne

George Parsons Lathrop

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Eugénie Hamerton

Sketches from Concord and Appledore

Frank Preston Stearns

Wordsworth

F. W. H. Myers

Milton

Mark Pattison

Authors and Friends

Annie Fields

Complete Prose Works

Walt Whitman

Simón Bolívar (The Liberator)

Guillermo A. Sherwell

The Life of Cicero, Volume One

Anthony Trollope

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

James Gillman

Saint Augustin

Louis Bertrand

Handel

Edward J. Dent

The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales

Jean-Pierre Camus

Biographical Sketches

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Biographical Stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fifteen Years with the Outcast

Fflorens Roberts

Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

John Greenleaf Whittier

Personal Sketches and Tributes

John Greenleaf Whittier

Thomas Carlyle

John Nichol

Josephus

Norman Bentwich

Albert Dürer

T. Sturge Moore

The Letters of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

The Grand Old Man

Richard B. Cook

The Personal Touch

J. Wilbur Chapman

Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp

Pat O'Brien

Early memories; some chapters of autobiography

John Butler Yeats

George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings

René Doumic

Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult

Mark E. Laxer

Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Samuel Smiles

James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

James Nasmyth

Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People

Isaac Taylor Headland

Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters

Amy Steedman

A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study

William Tuckwell

The Life of Me: An Autobiography

Clarence Edgar Johnson

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

Alexander H. Japp

Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells

Charlotte Brontë

Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist

Samuel Smiles

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Mary White Rowlandson

A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade

William Dobein James

Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman

Martha Summerhayes

The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It

James J. Davis

The Chignecto Isthmus and Its First Settlers

Howard Trueman

The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral

Elbridge S. Brooks

Historic Girls: Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times

Elbridge S. Brooks

The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa

Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North

Ida Pfeiffer

The Mountains of California

John Muir

Towards the Goal

Humphry Ward

Byron

John Nichol

The Best Letters of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Excellent Women

Various

With the Turks in Palestine

Alexander Aaronsohn

Free from School

Rahul Alvares

Sketches of the East Africa Campaign

Robert Valentine Dolbey

American Indian Stories

Zitkala-Sa

The Life of Lord Byron

John Galt

Thirty Years a Slave

Louis Hughes

Great Possessions

David Grayson

"Jesus Says So"

Unknown

Lives of the English Poets

Henry Francis Cary

A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee

John Esten Cooke

Mahomet, Founder of Islam

Gladys M. Draycott

A Publisher and His Friends

Samuel Smiles

The Log of a Noncombatant

Horace Green

The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore

P. Power

With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia

John Ward

Cleopatra

Jacob Abbott

A Hilltop on the Marne

Mildred Aldrich

Samuel Johnson

Leslie Stephen

A woman's journey round the world

Ida Pfeiffer

A Surgeon in Belgium

Henry Sessions Souttar

Principal Cairns

John Cairns

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

John Addington Symonds

The Life of Col. James Gardiner

Philip Doddridge

Autobiographical Sketches

Annie Besant

In the Claws of the German Eagle

Albert Rhys Williams

A Grandmother's Recollections

Ella Rodman Church

Reminiscences of a Pioneer

William Colonel Thompson

McClure's Magazine December, 1895

Ida M. Tarbell

Confessions of a Young Man

George Moore

Collections and Recollections

George William Erskine Russell

The White Road to Verdun

Kathleen Burke

History of Julius Caesar

Jacob Abbott

The Three Brontës

May Sinclair

Between You and Me

Harry Lauder

On the Edge of the War Zone

Mildred Aldrich

My Year of the War

Frederick Palmer

George Washington's Rules of Civility

George Washington

Half a Century

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Sterne

H. D. Traill

The Key to Peace

Anna Marie Miles

The True George Washington [10th Ed.]

Paul Leicester Ford

Giorgione

Herbert Frederick Cook

A Volunteer Poilu

Henry Beston

Sir Robert Hart

Juliet Bredon

Thirty Years in the Itinerancy

W. G. Miller

Kepler

Walter W. Bryant

The Trail of the Tramp

A-No. 1

The Last Leaf

James Kendall Hosmer

Books and Characters, French & English

Lytton Strachey

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

George Washington

William Roscoe Thayer

Yesterdays with Authors

James Thomas Fields

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Recollections of My Youth

Ernest Renan

Famous Americans of Recent Times

James Parton

Campaign of the Indus

T. W. E. Holdsworth

Three Times and Out

Mervin C. Simmons

The Dock and the Scaffold

T. D. Sullivan

Sydney Smith

George William Erskine Russell

William of Germany

Stanley Shaw

Daniel Webster

Henry Cabot Lodge

Reveries of a Schoolmaster

Francis B. Pearson

Lord Elgin

John George Bourinot

Great Britain and Her Queen

Anne E. Keeling

In the Ranks of the C.I.V.

Erskine Childers

The Personal Life of David Livingstone

William Garden Blaikie

A Yankee in the Trenches

Robert Derby Holmes

Fifteen years in hell

Luther Benson

Robert Browning

G. K. Chesterton

Watts (1817-1904)

William Loftus Hare

The Backwoods of Canada

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

War in the Garden of Eden

Kermit Roosevelt

Edward MacDowell, His Work and Ideals

Elizabeth Fry Page

The Siege of Kimberley

T. Phelan

The Life of James Renwick

Thomas Houston

Fields of Victory

Humphry Ward

Whistler Stories

Don Carlos Seitz

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

Francis F. Browne

John Knox and the Reformation

Andrew Lang

Clara A. Swain, M.D.

Robert Hoskins

The Life of Hugo Grotius

Charles Butler

Lady Byron Vindicated

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Miscellanies

Oscar Wilde

Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam

Herbert E. E. Hayes

John Redmond's Last Years

Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Purcell

John F. Runciman

Wagner

John F. Runciman