Biography Books

Mozart's Youth

Franz Hoffmann

The life-story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart contained in this volume closes with his admission to membership in the Accademia Filarmonica at Bologna, Italy. Mozart was then in his fifteenth year. H..

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2): MontaigneRabelaisCorneilleRochefoucauldMolièreLa Fontaine PascalMadame de SévignéBoileauRacineFénélon..

James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics

Richard Glazebrook

Maxwell’s life was written in 1882 by two of those who were most intimately connected with him, Professor Lewis Campbell and Dr. Garnett. Many of the biographical details of the earlier part of this b..

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2) contains the biography of Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël.The young man was ..

Twenty Years of My Life

Douglas Sladen

If I could tell all I know about the interesting people I have met, the book would read like my own Who’s Who re-written by Walter Emanuel for publication in Punch. As it is, the book contains a great..

Washington the Soldier

Henry B. Carrington

Washington’s sublime conception of America, noticed in Chapter XXXVI., foreshadowed “a stupendous fabric of freedom and empire, on the broad basis of Independency,” through which the “poor and oppress..

Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796

Randolph C. Downes

The following biographical sketch of Anthony Wayne was written by Randolph C. Downes. It was published in 1936 by Charles Scribner’s Sons in the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, volume nineteen. Both..

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)Joseph Pitton de TournefortDr. Thomas ShawFrederic HasselquistLady Wortley MontagueRichard PocockeJohn BellJohn LedyardGeorge ForsterJames BruceJonas H..