Biographies & Memoirs

subcategories

Historical (11)
Leaders & Notable People (8)
Memoirs (10)
Professionals & Academics (9)

e-books in this category

Encyclopedia of World Biography
- Advameg, Inc , 2009
Notable figures from many cultures from antiquity to the present day: Archimedes, Bach, Chaplin, Copernicus, Coppola, Dean, Descartes, Eastwood, Einstein, Fitzgerald, Freud, Gorbachev, Hemingway, Luther, Ming, Picasso, Russell, Tutankhamen, etc.
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography
by Mark Twain , 1871
" I was born without teeth -- and there Richard III had the advantage of me; but I was born without a humpback, likewise, and there I had the advantage of him. My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. "
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Mark Twain: A Biography
by Albert Bigelow Paine - eBooks@Adelaide , 2003
Biography of the classic American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte
by Elizabeth Gaskell - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her childhood, through her years as a writer who had 'foreseen the single life' for herself, to her marriage at thirty-eight and death less than a year later.
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