Biography, Autobiography & Memoirs
Bashan and I
It was during the war that Thomas Mann, one of the great modern stylists, wrote this simple little i..
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Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation
Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation is a journal written by William Bradford between 1630 and ..
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Commentaries on the Gallic War
Commentaries on the Gallic War is the first hand account by Julius Caesar of his experiences during ..
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account by Thomas de Quincey of his add..
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Geronimo's Story of his Life
Geronimo. No word or image better symbolizes the fierce, fearless nature of the Native America..
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that s..
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Life On The Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain, published in 1883 and, notably, the first submiss..
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My Bondage and My Freedom
"My Bondage and My Freedom" is an autobiographical narrative by Frederick Douglass, a prominent Afri..
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My Life and Work
"My Life and Work" is an autobiography written by Henry Ford in conjunction with Samuel Crowther and..
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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
King Phillip’s War was an armed conflict between native New England Indian tribes and the English Co..
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first and most popular of three memoirs Frederick..
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Random Reminiscences
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller is a memoir of his activities in the o..
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South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
The race to reach the South Pole was won by Norwegian Roald Amundsen in 1911 after two British exped..
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is Franklin’s own record of his life, written between 1771 an..
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, e..
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine, also called Confessions, is an autobiographical work written by St..
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The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams is listed as the number one non-fiction book in the English language by..
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The Life of David Hume, Esq.
In April, 1776 David Hume, suffering from gastrointestinal disease and aware that the end was likely..
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The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons
The sinking of the largest ship afloat after a collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic in Ap..
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave reminds us that slavery at one time existed throu..
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The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
After leaving the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia embarked on a world tour t..
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The Travels of Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo is the English title of a travelogue about Marco Polo’s travels to Asia an..
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Thoughts on Art and Life
At the age of 55 Leonard da Vinci set out to organize his ideas from a review of the thousands of pa..
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Twelve Years A Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York. The ..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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