Biography Books

Who Was Who - 5000 B. C. to Date

Irwin Leslie Gordon

Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date is a humorous biographical work of popular faces written by Irwin Leslie Gordon.Who Was Who contains over 500 biographies of those who did or endeavored to become ..

Memories and Portraits

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories and Portraits is a personal memoir of Robert Louis Stevenson, who was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr H..

The Pirates Own Book

Charles Ellms

THE PIRATES OWN BOOK is an authentic narratives of the most celebrated sea robbers written by Charles Ellms, a Boston stationer who, after 1830, turned to popular writing and compiling almanacs...

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland

A Daughter of the Middle Border is a biographical work by Hannibal Hamlin Garland, who was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best know..

Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook

Kippis

Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis. This is audio only edition...

Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments

Edmund Gosse

Father and Son is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home...

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

John Forster

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete is the biography of the great English novelist Charles Dickens written by John Forster, was an English biographer and critic. He was a frien..

The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator

Arthur Kitson

The Life of Captain James Cook is a biographical work of Captain James Cook written by Arthur Kitson, a British monetary theorist and inventor. Captain James Cook FRS was a British explorer, navi..