Memoirs

Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

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John Keats



These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However,…

A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie

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Joseph Benjamin Polley



Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and e…

Life of Chopin

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Franz Liszt



Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique…

Från barnaår till silfverhår. Första afdelningen

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Anders Ramsay



"Från barnaår till silfverhår" (From childyears to silverhairs) by Anders Ramsay (1832-1910) is one of the most …

With the Empress Dowager of China

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Katharine Carl



Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…

The Elephant Man and other reminiscences

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Frederick Treves



In 1884, Professor Treves saw Joseph Merrick (known as the "Elephant Man") in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Bei…

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…

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Robert Falcon Scott



Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …

A Soldier's Diary

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Ralph Scott



This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…

Being a Boy

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Charles Dudley Warner



Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)

Old Hampshire Vignettes

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker



Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She …

Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life i…

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Albert Millican



This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' v…

Im Gold- und Silberland

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Mark Twain



In dieser Reiseerzählung schildert Mark Twain seine Erfahrungen in Carson City und Nevada.Zusammenfassung von Katharina21

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

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Osborne Perry Anderson



A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid o…

The Cellar-House of Pervyse

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Mairi Chisholm



Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…

Land of the Burnt Thigh

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Edith Eudora Kohl



"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months…

Adrift on an Ice-Pan

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Sir Wilfred Grenfell



This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …

Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

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François-René de Chateaubriand



This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…

My Days and Dreams

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Edward Carpenter



Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against est…

The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2

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Charles E. Flandrau



A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau "at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace …

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