Biography & Autobiography

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Bishop of Sherbourne Asser - Life of Alfred the Great

A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars contend that the work was actually composed much later by an...

R. S. Steinberg 2 hours 17 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John George Nicolay - Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive biography of Lincoln, «Abraham Lincoln, a Biography.» Although this is a...

John Lieder and 8 more 18 hours 28 minutes

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Jack London - John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (alcohol). There is much controversy about the cause of his death just as...

Peter Kelleher 9 hours 43 minutes

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Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only are we privy to the formation of...

Marfschen and 15 more 21 hours 51 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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John Henry Haaren - Famous Men of Greece

Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. (Summary by Laura...

Ed Meade and 9 more 4 hours 29 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Stanton Henry King - Dog-Watches At Sea

Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors'...

Peter Kelleher 7 hours 35 minutes

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John Bunyan - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Grace Abounding is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan, who also penned Pilgrim’s Progress, perhaps one of the most significant pieces of Christian literature, second only to the Bible. Grace Abounding follows...

Stephen Escalera 3 hours 49 minutes

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

Biography & Autobiography

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

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...

Graham Redman and 5 more 8 hours 43 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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War & Military

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Thomas Carlyle - Early Kings of Norway

«The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies,...

Laura Koskinen and 2 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Jennie Ellis Keysor - Great Artists: Volume 1

Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into...

Laura Caldwell and 3 more 2 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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John Henry Haaren - Famous Men of Rome

Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for children. (summary by Laura Caldwell)

Laura Caldwell and 8 more 4 hours 37 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Mirror of the Sea

The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)

Peter Kelleher 8 hours 6 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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