Memoirs and personal history
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My Life and Work
Ford, HenryDuke Classics 2022One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production. Ford's autobiography, My Life...
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From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
Blavatsky, H. P.Duke Classics 2021In addition to founding the Theosophical Society and playing an influential role in the New Thought movement, the controversial and idiosyncratic figure Madame Blavatsky was a tire...
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The True Story of My Life
Andersen, Hans ChristianDuke Classics 2022Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen gave the world some of the most memorable stories ever written; masterpieces like "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," and "The Little Match Gi...
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Stories of Inventors : The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
Doubleday, RussellDuke Classics 2022There are many thrilling incidents - all the more attractive because of their truth - in the study, the trials, the disappointments, the obstacles overcome, and the final triumph o...
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The Story of My Heart : An Autobiography
Jefferies, RichardDuke Classics 2022The Story of My Heart is an inspiring and personal account of a soul's awakening. In this 1883 autobiography, naturalist and journalist Richard Jefferies describes his journey thro...
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The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius,Duke Classics 2022De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetoni...
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom : The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
Craft, William; Craft, EllenDuke Classics 2022Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple bec...
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The Education of Henry Adams
Adams, HenryDuke Classics 2022The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into th...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave
Douglass, FrederickDuke Classics 2024Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA. His autobiography details his experiences as a slave and is considered the most famous such work, t...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater : Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar
de Quincey, ThomasDuke Classics 2021You won't be able to put down this gripping first-hand account of opium addiction that shocked England after its initial publication in 1821. Thomas De Quincy was a renowned author...
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Two Years Before the Mast : A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Dana, Richard HenryDuke Classics 2022After a bout with the measles that left his vision impaired, Harvard undergrad Richard Henry Dana signed up for a two-year engagement as a sailor, thinking that the fresh sea air m...
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Sailing Alone Around the World
Slocum, JoshuaDuke Classics 2022As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging...
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The Americanization of Edward Bok : The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
Bok, Edward WilliamDuke Classics 2021The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himse...
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Saint Francis of Assisi
Chesterton, G. K.Duke Classics 2022G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assisi. Grounding the man behind the myth he states "however wild and romant...
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A Night in the Snow : A Struggle for Life
Carr, Reverend Edmund DonaldDuke Classics 2022In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard on his way to an evening service. He battled the elements for 22 hours with nothing by his bible and his dead ho...
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The Story of My Life : With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education
Keller, HelenDuke Classics 2022Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion. It was first published in 1903. K...