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Jerry McAuley - Transformed; or, the History of a River Thief, Briefly Told
Jerry McAuley gives a testimony of his transformation from one of the wickedest men to ever live to being saved and a life of helping others do the same. (Summary by Curt Walton)
Curt Walton
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Frederick Douglass - Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892. The emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil...
Lee Smalley
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Agnes Strickland - Lives of the Queens of England Volume 6
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England...
Ann Boulais
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Lives of the Queens of England
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Isaac Marcosson - Autobiography of a Clown
This «as told to» autobiography of Jules Turnour is based on a popular article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1909. Turnour relates through Marcosson his personal history and that of the circus, both in...
Lee Smalley
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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...
Robin Cotter
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
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George Bruce Malleson - Life of Prince Metternich
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipulative, and single-minded in his determination to overthrow Napoleon and his...
Pamela Nagami
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Thomas Hodgkin - Theodoric the Goth
Theodoric the Great (~454-526) was king of the Ostrogoths during the time of the terminal decline of the Western Roman Empire. After wandering with his people through the Balkans, at times allied with the Eastern...
Patrick Eaton
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Sarah Raymond Herndon - Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place without money... There is nothing we can spare so well as Dick.... It would...
Sue Anderson
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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...
MorganScorpion
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7
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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland
Saint Columba (521 – 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political...
MaryAnn
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Rainer Maria Rilke - Auguste Rodin
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface) Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of...
David Wales
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Autobiography of Goethe Volume 2
A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows...
Craig Campbell
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Eight Keys to Eden
Mark Clifton
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
William Blake
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Around the World with the Children
Frank G. Carpenter
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