Autobiography: general

Browning's Men and Women consists of fifty-one poems, all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators, some identified and some not; the first fifty take in a very diverse range of historical, religious or European situations, with the fifty-first - "e;One Word More"e; - featuring Browning himself as narrator and dedicated to his wife.

Life in Mexico is a travel narrative written by Frances Erskine Inglis, who used the pen name Madame Calderon de la Barca.

Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition co-named after its leader, Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon.

Auszug: "Ein lachender Sommertag!

Sehr guter Einblick in großbürgerliche russische Familie, interessante Persönlichkeit, wohl auch gut übersetzt.

Excerpt: "e;In the series of letters written to his half-sister, Mrs.

Autobiography of an Androgyne is an autobiographical account of Ralph Werther, who was born female but later identified as an androgyne, meaning a person with both masculine and feminine characteristics.

The Purchase of the North Pole is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889.

Auszug: "Ostersonne, welch sanftes Feuer in deinem Kusse!

The Fort in the Wilderness, or The Soldier Boys of the Indian Trails is a children's adventure novel written by Edward Stratemeyer.

The Recollections of Captain Wilkie is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Chambers's Journal on 19 January 1895.

Excerpt: "e;When the rule limiting speeches to an hour was adopted by Congress, which was before most of you were born, an eminent but somewhat discursive person spent more than that measure of time in convincing me that whoever really had anything to say could say it in less.

My Lady Nicotine is a humorous essay by Scottish author J.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte Volume 2 is a meticulously detailed biography that delves into the life and legacy of one of the 19th century's most renowned authors, Charlotte Bronte.

(Excerpt) "e;Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire South a place where it has changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia.

Excerpt: "e;Amid all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it.

Excerpt: "e;While to scenery, it is distance,-and photography,-which lends enchantment, it is, on the contrary, propinquity which, in my experience, lends to the Borneo Head-Hunters and to their Home-life, a charm which cannot be wholly dispelled even by the skulls hanging from the rafters of their houses.

Excerpt: "e;Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night and it is quiet as the grave and beautiful as heaven-when it is not blowing and black as-the other place!

Ten Nights in a Bar Room is a book written by T.

One of the few written from the first person perspective, Verne fills this journey with plentiful characters, subplots, and twists.

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850.

Excerpt: "e;The following narrative was originally intended, as a record of the events it relates, for the use of the Community only.

In this significant work, Schweinfurth provides a detailed account of his expeditions, discoveries, and interactions with the indigenous people of Central Africa.

Told in fairy tale style, this 1894 work presents the story of ancient conqueror Alexander the Great.

From Benjamin Franklin's birth in Boston to his election by Congress as America's first ambassador to France, the author traces the fascinating development of an impetuous and saucy youth who became a beloved man on both his native soil and throughout the world.

The book introduces us to the titular character, a 30-ish office clerk in London's Distribution Office; a government worker of no particular smarts or ambitions.

Excerpt: "e;"e;I will do what I can to help make matters easy, father.

Excerpt: "e;The first question which the unprejudiced inquirer will seek to answer is: How far were the Churches able to prevent, yet remiss in using their influence to prevent, the present war?

Mit Ernest Renan trat die Leben-Jesu-Forschung Mitte des 19.

Excerpt: "e;To make my title complete, it should read "e;Hunting Indians in a Taxi-cab with a Camera.

Elisabeth Thury, ursprünglich Milica von Vukobrankovics (1894-1973) war eine österreichische Journalistin.

Excerpt: "e;The object of the present work is to give a concise account of the life we lead at home in Tokyo.

The Venice which one visits to-day is so curiously a part and not a part of the ancient Venice of which we dream, that one feels, when in that sea-enveloped and fairy-like city, a strange sense of duality,-of being a veritable antique and an equally veritable modern.

Excerpt: "e;With the trials at large of the conspirators, for high treason and murder; a description of their weapons and combustible machines, and every particular connected with the rise, progress, discovery, and termination of the horrid plot.

Dokumentarisch belegte Geschichte wird dabei erzählt, die Heldin weder glorifiziert noch unterschätzt.

This short nineteenth-century American novel about "e;English Domestic Life"e; is interesting for the way it models the tradition of the Victorian novel from reading rather than experience.