Biography, Literature and Literary studies

There is a lot to be learned from reading accounts that come from the same period as their historical topic.

Auszug: "Eine junge Deutsche, ein Berliner Kind, ist der Film-Stern von Hollywood und New York geworden.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol 12 is a collection of works written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Among our public men there is not one whose life can be studied with more interest and profit by American youth than that of Abraham Lincoln.

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history.

The Sun Also Rises follows a group of young American and British expatriates as they wander through Europe in the mid-1920s.

Excerpt: "e;BABURAM BABU, a resident of Vaidyabati, was a man of large experience in business affairs: he was famous for his long service in the Revenue and Criminal Courts.

Records of a Family of Engineers is a memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson that tells the story of his father's family and their work as engineers in Scotland.

The "e;Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson"e; is a collection of letters written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Excerpt: "e;By many friends, both in this country and in the Far East, the question has often been asked me: "e;Why do you not write a book about Japan?

Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol 10 is a collection of works written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Excerpt: "e;The names of the seventeen men, here named "e;Leaders of the People,"e; are for the most part familiar in our mouths as household words.

Excerpt: "e;I do not know whether this will awaken a sympathetic lassitude in, say, fifty per cent.

1929 unternahmen die vier deutschen Wissenschaftler Fritz Loewe, Johannes Georgi, Ernst Sorge und Alfred Wegener eine Vorexpedition nach Grönland, die dem Erkunden von Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten aufs Inlandeis, der Erprobung von wissenschaftlichen Meßgeräten, dem Vertrautwerden mit Hundeschlitten sowie mit den topographischen Gegebenheiten Grönlands dienen sollte.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving is the third book of non-fiction by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), published in 1906.

Gilbert Norwood's "e;Greek Tragedy"e; explores the essence and enduring legacy of ancient Greek theatrical works, illustrating their pivotal role in shaping literature.

Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man, written by Bartimeus, offers an insightful and engaging depiction of life at sea during the early 20th century through a series of short stories and character sketches.

Excerpt: "e;Binney Jenks, Tallow Martin, and I were sitting on Mark Tidd's front porch, waiting for him to get through supper.

Excerpt: "e;A poet may write pleasingly about mountains, and cyclones, and battles, and the love of woman, but if he is at all timid about the verdict of posterity he should avoid the theme of childhood as he would avoid the plague.

Familiar Studies of Men and Books is a collection of essays by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol 7 is a collection of works written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Excerpt: "e;It was, I suppose, during the closing months of the First World War that an urbane and witty gentleman, writing in the Confederate city of Richmond, set down these words in the course of one of his interminable, and witty and urbane, monologues: "e;I wonder if you are familiar with that uncanny genius whom the London directory prosaically lists as Arthur Machen?

As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced.

Excerpt: "e;On the 26th day of September, 1846, the 7th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, commanded by Colonel J.

The Pirate and Murderer, Executed on Bedloe's Island, New York Bay, on the 13th of July, 1860, for the Murder of Capt.

The Autobiography of Countess Sophie Tolstoi was was originally written after it was solicited by a publisher in Russia, S.

What Every Woman Knows is a play written by J.

Der deutsche Zoologe Franz Doflein (1873 - 1924) veröffentlichte 1921 die hier vorliegende umfassende Beschreibung seiner Reise nach Mazedonien; sie enthält neben eigenen Aquarellen, Zeichnungen und Fotografien zoologisch-biologische als auch zeitgeschichtlich interessante Informationen zu Land und Leuten.

The strength that it took for Yates to do what she did for hundreds of men during the years of the Civil War is astounding.

Excerpt: "e;With singular unanimity critics for thirty years have slighted the work of Arthur Machen.

Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers is a biographical book written by Edith C.

Auszug: "Die Trichter: Zwei Trichter wandeln durch die Nacht, durch ihres Rumpfs verengten Schacht fließt weißes Mondlicht still und heiter auf ihren Waldweg und so weiter.

This book is a biography of the great Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.

Excerpt: "e;The history of Russia has attracted many writers and inspired many volumes during the last twenty years, yet its most romantic and most interesting feature has not been fully appreciated.

In Flanders Fields is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.

Excerpt: "e;The transit from the coasts of Britain to those of Egypt was marked by nothing that can interest or amuse, unless it be the contrast between the phenomena of winter on the former, with those which strike the view on approaching the latter.

Excerpt: "e;In my memory there are silhouetted against the horizon of the past a few figures (amongst the many kind friends who have journeyed with me) who stand alone, whose greatness of character singled them from their fellows, others whose splendid works for state or humanity have marked them, but I pause before a figure that would have told us he was nothing in particular, yet few men have been so loved, so universally popular as the late Lord William Beresford, V.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol 22 is a collection of works written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

What would happen if a man went undercover into enemy territory during World War One?

Originally published in 1885, Gombo Zhebes is a collection of 352 Creole proverbs selected from 6 dialects.

"e;The Story of My Experiment With Truth"e; is the autobiography of Mohandas K.

One of the most inspiring and interesting autobiographies that I have read in many a year.

Excerpt: "e;A hundred years ago, in an upper room in Philadelphia, five men were gathered-men of noble bearing, of brilliant intellects, of undoubted character.

The Last Days of the Romanovs: How Tsar Nicholas II and Russia's Imperial Family Were Murdered_, first published in 1920 and republished here by the Institute for Historical Review, written by British journalist Robert Wilton is a fascinating account of the untimely murders of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family which fully explores who was really behind these murders.

John James Geer, a Union soldier captured at the Battle of Shiloh, recounts his experiences as a prisoner in the Confederacy in Beyond the Lines: A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie.

Wrecked on the Feejees: Experience of a Nantucket man a century ago, who was sole survivor of whaleship "e;Oeno"e; and lived for nine years among cannibals of South Sea Islands

Excerpt: "e;In Northern India stood a monastery called The Chubara of Dhunni Bhagat.

Excerpt: "e;The life-story of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, as I propose to write it, begins when, in his third or fourth year, he falls off a chest of drawers and permanently injures his foot.

Excerpt: "e;The professor was pottering about his laboratory.