Memoirs and personal history
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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie, AndrewDuke Classics 2022The industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) established a gospel of wealth that can be neither ignored nor forgotten, and set a pace in distrib...
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Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
Mill, John StuartDuke Classics 2022John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) was a great liberal thinker of the nineteenth century, a noted philosopher, political theorist, and Member of Parliament. Mill was given a discipline...
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin : From the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Darwin, CharlesDuke Classics 2022Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory. Darwin wrote his autobiography under the title Recollections of the Dev...
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Autobiography of Goethe : Truth and Poetry Relating to My Life
von Goethe, Johann WolfgangDuke Classics 2022In the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) one can find the seed of most German thought, literature, science and theology. A hugely influential man, not only on German...
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An Autobiography : The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Gandhi, M. K.Duke Classics 2022In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that "my life from this point o...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : 1706-1757
Franklin, BenjaminDuke Classics 2022The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which Franklin himself called his Memoirs, is the unfinished record of his life written between 1771 and 1790. It has become one of the most...
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano : Written by Himself
Equiano, OlaudahDuke Classics 2021The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his o...
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Representative Men : Seven Lectures
Emerson, Ralph WaldoDuke Classics 2022Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for. A staunch advocate of individualism and clear-sighted critic of societal pressures, he led the early 19th centu...
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James Watt
Carnegie, AndrewDuke Classics 2021The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the...
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Chopin : The Man and His Music
Huneker, JamesDuke Classics 2021Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) was one of the most influential musicians of the 19th Century. Discovered as a child-prodigy pianist in his native Poland, he later travelled to Franc...
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Following the Equator : A Journey Around the World
Twain, MarkDuke Classics 2022Following the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895. He chose his route for opportunities to lecture on the English language and rec...
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Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words : The Man and the Artist
van Beethoven, LudwigDuke Classics 2023Widely regarded as one of the most singular geniuses to have worked in the Western classical tradition, Ludwig van Beethoven was as unique as his once-in-a-generation musical talen...
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Beethoven
Wagner, RichardDuke Classics 2022Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time. He was particularly instrumental in the transition from the Classic to...
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Hero Tales from American History
Lodge, Henry Cabot; Roosevelt, TheodoreDuke Classics 2021Who needs tall tales, legends, and myths when the turmoil and tribulation that resulted in the birth of the United States is chock-full of inspiring deeds and triumphs? In this vol...
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The People of the Abyss
London, JackDuke Classics 2022The beloved author of such works as The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf turns his keen eye to social realism in The People of the Abyss. In this fascinating volume,...
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John Stuart Mill : His Life and Works, Twelve Sketches by Distinguished Authors
Spencer, Herbert; Fawcett, Henry; Harrison, FredericDuke Classics 2021John Stuart Mill: His Life and Works is a collection of twelve biographical and philosophical sketches written by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison and other author...
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A Personal Record
Conrad, JosephDuke Classics 2022A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography. The writing is lyrical and atmospheric and commonly believed to be somewhat embellished. It does, however, give great ins...
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Biographia Literaria
Coleridge, Samuel TaylorDuke Classics 2022Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosoph...
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The History of Napoleon Bonaparte
Lockhart, John GibsonDuke Classics 2021A fearsome foe on the battlefield, a lovestruck romancer at night -- Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in history. This detailed biography by...
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South : The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
Shackleton, Ernest HenryDuke Classics 2024When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912, he decided to trek across the continent via the pole instead. Before his ship even reached the continent it w...