Biography Books

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de ma vie is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer. A previous, bowdlerized version was originally known in English as The Memoirs of..

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

My Brilliant Career  is an autobiographical fiction work written by Miles Franklin, an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by B..

Grace Darling

Eva Hope

Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands is a biographical work of Grace H. Darling. Grace Horsley Darling was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the resc..

Caligula

Suetonius

Caligula was one of the Twelve Caesars who are illuminated in the great work by Suetonius. If you want to read about one of the "baddies," that is, one of the most deranged leaders in the history of H..

Round the World

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and industrialist of Scottish extraction, known for his role as a major philanthropist. Carnegie's was the classic "rags to ric..

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

John D. Rockefeller

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events is biographical work by John D. Rockefeller, an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealt..

Martin Eden

Jack London

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 19..

Buhay at Mga Ginawa ni Dr. Jose Rizal

Pascual H. Poblete

Buhay at Mga Ginawa ni Dr. Jose Rizal written by Pascual H. Poblete, a Filipino writer and feminist, remarkably noted as the first translator of Dr. José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere into t..