Biography & Autobiography

Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409

Read by Pamela Nagami


Oscar Browning


The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …

An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll

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I. Newton Baker


Written as a tribute to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll after his death, by Isaac Newton Baker, his secretary of 14 years, and presented to the …

Palmetto Leaves

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Harriet Beecher Stowe


After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they…

The Story of Gladstone's Life

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Justin Mccarthy


William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimatel…

Autobiography of Phineas Pett

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Phineas Pett


Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept…

Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III

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Albert Bigelow Paine


This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …

The Age of Elizabeth

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Mandell Creighton


This short history by the eminent British historian, Mandell Creighton, places Elizabeth and her reign within the context of 16th century Eu…

Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire

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Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke


Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…

Life of Prince Metternich

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George Bruce Malleson


Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipula…

Madame de Staël

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Bella Duffy


Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Pa…

The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies

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Sydney Fisher


The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involveme…

Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879

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John Muir


When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown hi…

Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman

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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay


Daniel Boone is celebrated in history and legend as one of the foremost pioneers who opened up the wilderness of Kentucky. Famed for his sk…

The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2)

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Margaret Duncan Kelly


The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth.…

Some Articles About Mark Twain

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Sarah Knowles Bolton, Charles Hopkins Clark, William M. Clemens and Edmund Yates


"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Pub…

The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla

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John W. Arctander


This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. …

Social Life in England 1750-1850

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F. J. Foakes-Jackson


In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…

Brief Lives Volume I

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John Aubrey


A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10)

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John Hay


Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…

My Father As I Recall Him

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Mamie Dickens


"If, in these pages, written in remembrance of my father, I should tell you, my dear friends, nothing new of him, I can, at least, prom…

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