Biography Books
The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De QuinceyThomas De Quincy's autobiographical tract Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an account, you might have guessed, of the author's struggles and glories with opium. Though he was a brillian..
Cyropaedia - The Education of Cyrus
XenophonThe Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a largely fictional biography of Cyrus the Great the founder of Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. It was written around 370 BC by the Athenia..
Admiral Farragut
Alfred Thayer MahanIn preparing this brief sketch of the most celebrated of our naval heroes, the author has been aided by the very full and valuable biography published in 1878 by his son, Mr. Loyall Farragut, who has ..
Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
Harry A. LewisSome succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor. As our title indicates, we shall endeavor to show "why som..
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa YoganandaAutobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali family...
Akbar, Emperor of India
Richard GarbeAkbar, Emperor of India: A Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth Century written by Richard Garbe...
The Story of the Malakand Field Force - An Episode of Frontier War
Winston ChurchillThe Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War was an 1898 book written by Winston Churchill; it was his first published work of non-fiction. The book describes a military campaign ..
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Giacomo CasanovaHistoire de ma vie is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer. A previous, bowdlerized version was originally known in English as The Memoirs of..