Biography Books

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Of the many 'rags to riches' stories in US history, Andrew Carnegie's is one of the most fascinating. After immigrating from Scotland when he was a child, he worked his way up through a telegraph comp..

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincy's autobiographical tract Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an account, you might have guessed, of the author's struggles and glories with opium. Though he was a brillian..

Cyropaedia - The Education of Cyrus

Xenophon

The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a largely fictional biography of Cyrus the Great the founder of Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. It was written around 370 BC by the Athenia..

Admiral Farragut

Alfred Thayer Mahan

In preparing this brief sketch of the most celebrated of our naval heroes, the author has been aided by the very full and valuable biography published in 1878 by his son, Mr. Loyall Farragut, who has ..

Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail

Harry A. Lewis

Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor. As our title indicates, we shall endeavor to show "why som..

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali family...

Akbar, Emperor of India

Richard Garbe

Akbar, Emperor of India: A Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth Century written by Richard Garbe...

The Story of the Malakand Field Force - An Episode of Frontier War

Winston Churchill

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War was an 1898 book written by Winston Churchill; it was his first published work of non-fiction. The book describes a military campaign ..