Memoirs
128 books
War & Military
438
Charles Todd Quintard - Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865)
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate army in the American Civil War. A sympathetic, warm, intellectual man loved...
4 hours 46 minutes
Memoirs
461
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced her to the world of «portraiture of the stars,» her expeditious flight from France at...
7 hours 22 minutes
Memoirs
493
François-René de Chateaubriand - Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III
The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and death of Napoleon, and is replete with the author's trenchant views on the...
7 hours 15 minutes
Animals
498
William Beebe - Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and collecting live birds for the New York Zoological Park. They then...
11 hours 12 minutes
Memoirs
427
François-René de Chateaubriand - Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II
Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return to France to fight, reluctantly, for the King, his early literary successes...
10 hours 4 minutes
Memoirs
405
Peter Randolph - From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying in 1897. This is his 1893 autobiography. The latter third of the book is a...
4 hours 47 minutes
Memoirs
435
Sidney Colvin - Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However, the editor chose to exclude love letters to Fanny Brawne, respecting their...
15 hours 33 minutes
Memoirs
457
Francis Asbury - Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I
As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Methodism, Francis Asbury kept a journal of his travels and activities. His journal...
21 hours 54 minutes
Memoirs
422
Clarence King - Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
«Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada» is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Survey. King later led a major survey along the 40th Parallel in the American West and then...
10 hours 59 minutes
