Biography Books

The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1

Baron Trenck

Baron Franz von der Trenck was an Austrian soldier. Trenck was born into a military family on 1 January 1711, in Reggio in south Italy, where his father Johann Heinrich Trenck served as an Austrian of..

The Diary of a U-boat Commander

Stephen King-Hall

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involv..

A Life of William Shakespeare

Sir Sidney Lee

Shakespeare, William, A Life of, by Sidney Lee (1898). The motto of this book would appear to be that which was said (by one of them) to have animated the contributors to the English Dictionary of Nat..

Abraham Lincoln - An Horatian Ode

Richard Henry Stoddard

Richard Henry Stoddard was an American critic and poet. Richard Henry Stoddard was born on July 2, 1825, in Hingham, Massachusetts. His father, a sea-captain, was wrecked and lost on one of his voyage..

George Washington - A Biography

William Roscoe Thayer

To obviate misunderstanding, it seems well to warn the reader that this book aims only at giving a sketch of George Washington's life and acts. I was interested to discover, if I could, the human resi..

Queen Victoria - A Biography

Lytton Strachey

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter ..

The Cruise of the Snark

Jack London

The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyag..

The Purple Land

W. H. Hudson

The Purple Land is a novel set in 19th century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land that England Lost. Initially a commercial and critical failure, ..