Lives & Memoirs

The Clockmakers' Daughters: Precision as a family inheritance

The Herbalists of the High Valleys: Mountain knowledge, gathered leaf by leaf

The Lighthouse Keepers: Lives spent holding back the dark

The Schoolmasters of One-Room Towns: Chalk, stove wood, and forty faces at once

The Ferrymen: Crossing keepers of the world's rivers

The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B.

The life of James Clerk Maxwell

Jenny Lind the artist, 1820-1851

The pioneer women of the West

Sir William Flower

Frederick Chopin

The inner life of Abraham Lincoln

Some forgotten Pennsylvania heroines

Makers of Japan

Twenty years in Roumania

Memoirs of a revolutionist

Herman Melville

A memoir of Miss Hannah Adams

The white Indian boy

Robert Frost

Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912

Prentice Mulford's story: life by land and sea

Lives of the electricians

Heroes of science

Social life in old New Orleans

Barnum

A girl's life eighty years ago

How it feels to be colored me

Some great American books

Lessons from the life of Florence Nightingale

Voltaire's history of Charles XII, king of Sweden

My life in Sarawak

Landmarks in Russian literature

Eccentricities of genius

Fifty years in Wall Street

Portraits of women

Plymouth memories of an octogenarian

Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field

Women in American history

Louisa May Alcott, the children's friend

John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775

Jacques Louis David and the French Revolution

The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910

The house on Henry Street

Henry Thoreau, bachelor of nature

Recollections of full years

Auld lang syne. Second series

Pen-portraits of literary women

Three years in California [1851-54]

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Reminiscences of a student's life

David Thompson, the explorer

The life of John Metcalf, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough / with ... anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card-playing, &c., some particulars relative to the expedition against the rebels in 1745 ...; and also a succinct account of his various contracts for making roads, erecting bridges ... in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire ...

Life of Beethoven

The letters of Madame de Sévigné

Darwin

A Croatian composer

Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings

Napoleon and his court

Catherine the Great

The attaché at Peking

Swift

Adobe days

A daughter of the Samurai

20 hrs., 40 min.

Frederick Law Olmsted

Books and men

Rajah Brooke

The life of Henry Labouchere

Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1571-1638

The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe

Ten Days in a Madhouse