Memoirs Books

Over the top with the 25th

R. Lewis

Over the top with the 25th: Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette is a personal narrative of R. Lewis based on battle of France.Excerpts:The end of August, 1914, found me following m..

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Annie L. Burton

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days is a personal memoirs of Annie L. Burton, a slave during the US civil war period. This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton,..

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2

Andrew Dickson White

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White is a two volume biography of Andrew Dickson White, an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University. Volume 2 contains his diplomat..

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1

Andrew Dickson White

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White is a two volume biography of Andrew Dickson White, an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University. Volume 1 contains his childhoo..

The Story of My Misfortunes

Peter Abelard

Peter 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..

L'esprit de la révolution de 1789

P.-L. Roederer

La révolution procède de causes antérieures au 4 août qui vit l'abolition des priviléges, au 14 juillet qui vit le renversement de la Bastille, à la convocation des états-généraux, à l'assemblée des n..

Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

A 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..

Memoir of John Lothrop Motley

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Memoir here given to the public is based on a biographical sketch prepared by the writer at the request of the Massachusetts Historical Society for its Proceedings. The questions involving controv..