Biography Books

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

Frances M.A. Roe

Perhaps it is not necessary to say that the events mentioned in the letters are not imaginary—perhaps the letters themselves tell that! They are truthful accounts of experiences that came into my own ..

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey

Orville Dewey

IT is about twenty-five years since, at my earnest desire, my father began to write some of the memories of his own life, of the friends whom he loved, and of the noteworthy people he had known; and i..

Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake

Rev. W. Tcikwell

It is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized.  A few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by person..

Confessions of a Young Man

George Moore

Dear little book, what shall I say about thee? Belated offspring of mine, out of print for twenty years, what shall I say in praise of thee? For twenty years I have only seen thee in French, and in th..

Contemporary American Composers

Rupert Hughes

One day there came into Robert Schumann's ken the work of a young fellow named Brahms, and the master cried aloud in the wilderness, "Behold, the new Messiah of music!" Many have refused to accept Bra..

Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)

Carl Van Doren

The American Novel, published last year, undertook to trace the progress of a literary type in the United States from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century; Contemporary American Novelis..

Sir Walter Scott

Richard H. Hutton

Sir Walter Scott from Richard Holt Hutton. English journalist of literature and religion (1826-1897). It will be observed that the greater part of this little book has been taken in one form or o..

Dante - His Times and His Work

Arthur John Butler

DANTE: HIS TIMES AND HIS WORK By Arthur John Butler An introduction to the life, times and work of Dante Alighieri, the great Italian poet. This reprint of a book published in 1902 includes chapters o..