Biography Books

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV

Thomas Moore

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore."Your letters of the 18th and 20th are arrived. In my own I have given you the rise, progress, decline, and fall, of my r..

The Empress Josephine

Louisa Mühlbach

“I win the battles, Josephine wins me the hearts.” These words of Napoleon are the most beautiful epitaph of the Empress Josephine, the much-loved, the much-regretted, and the much-slandered one. Even..

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

Francis Fisher Browne

The present revision of "The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln" was the last literary labor of its author. He had long wished to undertake the work, and had talked much of it for several years past. B..

History of Friedrich II of Prussia, vol 20

Thomas Carlyle

On the Crown-Prince's Marriage, three years ago, when the AMT or Government-District RUPPIN, with its incomings, was assigned to him for revenue, we heard withal of a residence getting ready. Hint had..

The Life of King Edward VII

J. Castell Hopkins

The reader of these pages will, I hope, receive a permanent impression of the career and character of one who has been at once a popular Prince, a great King, a worthy head of the British Empire and o..

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III

Thomas Moore

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore."Told Murray to secure for me Bandello's Italian Novels at the sale to-morrow. To me they will be nuts. Redde a satire o..

Der Roman eines geborenen Verbrechers

Antonino M

This book can not and should not be judged from the ordinary point of view: the title novel is subjectively justified in that the sentiment which led the hero of these pages to write them is certainly..

A Mind That Found Itself

Clifford Whittingham Beers

This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thing contributes so much to its value as its authenticity. It is an autobiography, ..