The Boy’s Life of Mark Twain
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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This is the story of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, reared almost without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-day have no existence, yet who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attain honorary degrees from the greatest universities of America and Europe; to be sought by statesmen and kings; to be loved and honored by all men in all lands, and mourned by them when he died. It is the story of one of the world’s very great men–the story of Mark Twain.

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Balzac
Author: Frederick Lawton
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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The condition of French society in the early half of the nineteenth century – the period covered by Balzac’s novels – may be compared to that of a people endeavouring to recover themselves after an earthquake. Everything had been overthrown, or at least loosened from its base – religion, laws, customs, traditions, castes. Nothing had withstood the shock. When the upheaval finally ceased, there were timid attempts to find out what had been spared and was susceptible of being raised from the ruins. Gradually the process of selection went on, portions of the ancient system of things being joined to the larger modern creation. The two did not work in very well together, however, and the edifice was far from stable.

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The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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„He had just completed his sixteenth year when (in August, 1785,) after being examined by the great Laplace, he obtained his first commission as second lieutenant in the artillery regiment La Fere. His corps was at Valance when he joined it; and he mingled, more largely than might have been expected from his previous habits, in the cultivated society of the place. His personal advantages were considerable; the outline of the countenance classically beautiful; the eye deep-set and dazzlingly brilliant; the figure short, but slim, active, and perfectly knit. Courtly grace and refinement of manners he never attained, nor perhaps coveted; but he early learned the art, not difficult probably to any person possessed of such genius and such accomplishments, of rendering himself eminently agreeable wherever it suited his purpose or inclination to be so.”

GORĄCE RANDKI BEZ ZOBOWIĄZAŃ.

ZAREJESTRUJ SIĘ ZA DARMO. KLIKNIJ.

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George Washington
Author: Calista McCabe Courtenay
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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” Indian tribes were in a difficult position. Both the French and the English were trying to get their lands and each seeking to win their alliance against the other. Washington reminded the chiefs that he had their word of honor and so kept them with him.

After receiving the French reply, the party started back home, going as far as possible in canoes. The rivers were swollen and full of ice, making the water-trip extremely dangerous. On Christmas Day, Washington began his long journey home–nearly a thousand miles through almost trackless forests. The horses became so tired that he and Christopher Gist decided to hurry on foot, in advance of the others, to the fork of the Ohio, leaving their horses to be brought later. They tramped several days, camping in the forests at night. An Indian met them and offered to show them a short cut. But he was treacherous and guided them out of their way and tried to shoot them. They escaped, traveling as fast as they could all night and all the next day.”

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Michelangelo
by Romain Rolland
Format: TXT
Category: Biography

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The life of Michelangelo offers one of the most striking examples of the influence that a great man can have on his time. Michelangelo burst like a thunder-storm into the heavy, overcharged sky of Florence. He captured painting, sculpture, architecture and poetry, all at once; he breathed into them the frenzy of his vigour and of his overwhelming idealism.

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Travels in West Africa
by Mary H. Kingsley
Format: PDF
Category: Biography, Travel

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The breathtaking, edifying and hilariously entertaining autobiographical tale of the famous British 19th century female explorer, who traveled all by herself into the deepest West African jungle and loved every life-threatening moment of it, be it sudden lone encounters with crocodiles and leopards, or staying for the night in a cannibal village.

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The Young Hitler I Knew
by August E. V. Anderson
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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The Young Hitler I Knew is an extraordinary memoir by a man who actually met Hitler in 1904 while they were both competing for a space at the opera. Their mutual passion for music created a friendship, and a roommate situation–and lends a personal and unique eye to explaining Hitler’s character at the time. Most biographies begin with Hitler’s rise to power: The Young Hitler I Knew is a ‘must’ for any who would delve into the roots of his personality

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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The original form of the manuscript is here reproduced in recognition of its value as a picture of one of the most notable personalities of Colonial times, and of its acknowledged rank as one of the great autobiographies of the world.

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Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
Format: Online
Category: Biography

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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. It continues with anecdotes of Twain’s training as a steamboat pilot, as the ‘cub’ of an experienced pilot.

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The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Format: Online
Category: Biography, Comics

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon. This fully illustrated biographical account provides an ideal introduction to Martin Luther King Jr. and his works.

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Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790, together with a summary of the chief events in Jefferson’s life.

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. This immense collection includes Lincoln’s speeches, letters, and telegrams. It provides a vivid picture of history as lived day-to-day, without the filter of hindsight.

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The Life of Christopher Columbus
by Edward Everett Hale
Format: Online
Category: Biography

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This book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope of interesting all classes of readers. I have attempted to follow closely the personal fortunes of Christopher Columbus, and, to the history around him, I have given only such space as seemed absolutely necessary for the illustration of those fortunes.

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David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
by John S. C. Abbott
Format: TXT
Category: Biography

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Colonel David Stern Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title „King of the Wild Frontier”.

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The Road
Author: Jack London
Format: PDF
Category: Biography

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Tales of London’s days as a hobo.

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