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Thomas Frost - In Kent with Charles Dickens

By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of this book to boost sales. Frost tells a good tale, and the book is not...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 8 minutes

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Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who «knew» the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts...

Martin Geeson 16 hours 11 minutes

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Charles Darwin - Autobiography of Charles Darwin

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections...

LivelyHive 2 hours 44 minutes

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James Huneker - Chopin: the Man and His Music

A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW and 9 more 9 hours 30 minutes

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Saint Therese of Lisieux - Story of a Soul

Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin. She was the youngest and one of five surviving sisters of...

Ann Boulais 6 hours 54 minutes

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Mary Antin - Promised Land

Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found comfort in their ancient traditions. When Mary Antin's father decided that...

Bridget Gaige 10 hours 14 minutes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...

Viglione and 8 more 8 hours 42 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Enos A. Mills - Wild Life on the Rockies

«This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the...

Laura Caldwell 4 hours 22 minutes

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of...

Sibella Denton and 1 more 5 hours 46 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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Anthony Trollope - Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-deprecating tone is at times hilarious and at times piteously moving. His...

Jessica Louise 9 hours 52 minutes

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Helen Keller - World I Live In

The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your...

Laura Caldwell 2 hours 49 minutes

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Mamie Dickens - My Father As I Recall Him

«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, promise you that what I shall tell will be told faithfully, if simply, and perhaps...

Laura Caldwell and 5 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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