BIOGRAPHY 1
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A Book of Remarkable Criminals
by H. B. Irving
A certain English judge, asked as to the general characteristics of the prisoners tried before him, said: "They are just like other people; in fact,
I often think that, but for different opportunities and other accidents, the prisoner and I might very well be in one another's places." "Greed, love of pleasure,"
writes a French judge, "lust, idleness, anger, hatred, revenge, these are the chief causes of crime. These passions and desires are shared by rich and poor alike,
by the educated and uneducated. They are inherent in human nature; the germ is in every man."
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Adventures and Letters
by Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War,
the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis became a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, and was one
of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. As an American, he had the unique opportunity to see the war
first-hand from both the British and Boer perspectives.
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An Autobiography
by Catherine Helen Spence
Catherine Helen Spence (31 October 1825 – 3 April 1910) was an Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette.
In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide.
Known as the "Greatest Australian Woman" and given the epitaph "Grand Old Woman of Australasia", Spence is commemorated on the Australian 5
dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation of Australia
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Autobiography
by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament,
was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century whose works on liberty justified freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.
He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's.
He clearly set forth the premises of the scientific method.
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Autobiography of Charles Darwin
by Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of
life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by
the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the
1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific
discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
by John W. Cousin
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Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake
by Rev. W. Tuckwell
Alexander William Kinglake (August 5, 1809 – January 2, 1891) was an English travel writer and historian.
His first literary venture had been Eothen, a very popular work of Eastern travel, published in 1844; but his magnum opus was his Invasion of the Crimea,
in 8 volumes, published from 1863 to 1887, one of the most effective works of its class.
The town of Kinglake in Victoria, Australia, and the adjacent National Park is named after him.
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Abraham Lincoln
by James Russell Lowell
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. His tenure in office
was occupied primarily with the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing
his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. As the Civil War was drawing to a close,
Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
by Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum
(opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and
the one which won him fame almost overnight...."
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Geoffrey Chaucer
by Adolphus William Ward
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat.
Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature,
Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
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Chaucer's Official Life
by James Root Hulbert
The researches of Sir Harris Nicolas, Dr. Furnivall, Mr. Selby and others have provided us with a considerable mass of
detailed information regarding the life and career of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Christopher Columbus and the New World
by Filson Young
This book contains the life of Columbus and his discovery of the new world with a note on the navigation of Columbus' first voyage by the Earl of Dunraven.
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Dying To Live
By: James W. Nelson
My true account of growing up on a storybook farm, experiencing a killer tornado, surviving teenage confusion, an adventurous four-year ride on a US Navy submarine, a skydive, not maturing into your regular adult, discovering the world is not a bowl of cherries, a crash to the bottom, and, finally, accepting that the only person responsible for me, is me. But first I had to descend into the deep depths of the emotional chasm. Following that is my most recent short fiction “WAITING TO DIE” a tale of today and the coming, feared, pandemic.
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Edison, His Life and Inventions
by F. L. Dyer and T. C. Martin
It has been a romance of popular biographers, based upon the fact that Edison began his career as a newsboy, to assume that these earlier years were spent
in poverty and privation, as indeed they usually are by the "newsies" who swarm and shout their papers in our large cities. While it seems a pity to destroy
this erroneous idea, suggestive of a heroic climb from the depths to the heights, nothing could be further from the truth. Socially the Edison family stood
high in Port Huron at a time when there was relatively more wealth and general activity than to-day.
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Elizabeth and her German Garden
by "Elizabeth" [Marie Annette Beauchamp]
There is not a creature in all this part of the world who could in the least understand with what heart-beatings I am looking forward to the flowering of these roses,
and not a German gardening book that does not relegate all tea-roses to hot-houses, imprisoning them for life, and depriving them for ever of the breath of God.
It was no doubt because I was so ignorant that I rushed in where Teutonic angels fear to tread and made my tea-roses face a northern winter; but they did face it
under fir branches and leaves, and not one has suffered, and they are looking to-day as happy and as determined to enjoy themselves as any roses, I am sure,
in Europe.
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Facing The Future (2009)
By Kevin Slater
The true story of Kevin Slater's life growing up in foster homes from a very young age. "This book will blow 'A boy called it" away',
says the Washington Times newspaper. A gripping story that will have you thinkinking "This cannot be true" though it sadly is.
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Famous Men of the Middle Ages
by J. H. Haaren and A. B. Poland
In the little volume called The Famous Men of Rome you have read about the great empire which the Romans established. Now we come to a time when the power of Rome
was broken and tribes of barbarians who lived north of the Danube and the Rhine took possession of lands that had been part of the Roman Empire. These tribes were
the Goths, Vandals, Huns, Franks and Anglo-Saxons. From them have come the greatest nations of modern times. All except the Huns belonged to the same race and are
known as Teutons. They were war-like, savage and cruel. They spoke the same language--though in different dialects--and worshiped the same gods. Like the old Greeks
and Romans they had many gods.
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George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
by Rene Doumic
George Sand wrote for nearly half a century. For fifty times three hundred and sixty-five days, she never let a day pass by without covering more pages than other
writers in a month. Her first books shocked people, her early opinions were greeted with storms. From that time forth she rushed head-long into everything new,
she welcomed every chimera and passed it on to us with more force and passion in it. Vibrating with every breath, electrified by every storm, she looked up at
every cloud behind which she fancied she saw a star shining.
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