Biography Books

The Life of Cicero, Volume One

Anthony Trollope

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Tro..

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

R. H. Gronow

A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful p..

The Story of Mary MacLane

Mary MacLane

At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was popular among young girls, but was strongly criticized by conse..

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenera..

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Charles Duke Yonge

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France is a biographical work by Charles Duke Yonge was an English historian, classicist and cricketer. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and trans..

El teatro por dentro

Eduardo Zamacois

El teatro por dentro is a book on Spanish drama theater and actresses history written by Eduardo Zamacois y Quintana, a Spanish-Cuban novelist and journalist. He was nephew of Spanish writer Nice..

Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers

J. Walker McSpadden

The Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers will introduce men—young and old— to a dozen of the great captains of history.So much has been written about the great soldiers of the world, that it is a matter of c..

Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &c, Volume 2

Izaak Walton

Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert is a multi volume biographical work of well known personalities written by Izaak Walton,  an English writer. He is best ..