Biography Books
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Washington IrvingThe Adventures of Captain Bonneville is a travel literature written by Washington Irving, an American short story writer, essayist, biographer and historian.Author's Introduction:WHILE ENGAGED in..
The Story of My Life
Egerton Ryerson YoungThe Story of My Life, Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada is an autobiography written by Adolphus Egerton Ryerson, who was a Canadian Methodist minister, educator, politician,..
Life of John Coleridge Patteson - Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands
Charlotte M. YongeThere are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his c..
Adventures in Contentment
David GraysonAdventures in Contentment is a biographical work by David Grayson.Excerpts:My senses, my nerves, even my muscles were continually strained to the utmost of attainment. If I loitered or paused by ..
Men Called Him Master
Elwyn A. SmithMen Called Him Master is a a biography of Jesus Christ written for young readers by Elwyn A. Smith. What kind of men were Jesus' disciples? What was it like to be with Jesus in Palestine? Why did..
The Story of My Misfortunes
Peter AbelardPeter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concise but vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in the form of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abel..
Hospital Sketches
Louisa May AlcottA considerable portion of this volume was published in successive numbers of The Commonwealth, newspaper, of Boston. The sudden popularity the Sketches won from the general public, and the praise they..
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician
Frederick NiecksThe first work of some length having Chopin for its subject was Liszt's "Frederic Chopin," which, after appearing in 1851 in the Paris journal "La France musicale," came out in book-form, still in Fre..