Biography Books

Rebels and Reformers - Biographies for Young People

Arthur Ponsonby

There are many books about men of action—soldiers, sailors, and explorers—but it is not so easy to find any simple account of men who have used their minds and their pens, rather than the sword, in th..

Why We Love Lincoln

James Creelman

Perhaps the profoundly tender love which the American people have for his memory is to be explained by the fact that in the secret recesses where every man communes with the highest, bravest and most ..

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..