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• Biographies and Autobiographies
• Literary Biographies and Autobiographies
• American Authors
• English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Authors
• Danish Authors
• French Authors
• German Authors
• Norwegian Authors
• Other Biographies and Autobiographies
• General
• African
• American
• Arabian
• British and Irish
• Canadian
• French
• German and Austrian
• Greek and Roman
• Indian
• Italian
• Jewish/Israeli
• Polish
• Scandinavian
• Spanish and Latin American
• Journals (both real and fictitious)
• Diaries (both real and fictitious)
• Memoirs and Reminiscences (both real and fictitious)
• Official Papers and Notebooks

Biographical Novels

Table of Contents

Biographies and Autobiographies

Literary Biographies and Autobiographies -- American Authors

• General and Miscellaneous
• A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1870) by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
• New England
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)
• Yesterdays with Authors by James Fields
• Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thams Codman
• My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears
• Cambridge Neighbors by William Dean Howells
• Literary Boston by William Dean Howells
• James Fennimore Cooper
• James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain
• Bret Harte
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: A Belated Guest [Bret Harte] by William Dean Howells
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
• Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Stearns
• Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
• Nathaniel Hawthorne by George E. Woodbury
• A Study of Hawthorne by George Lathrop
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: Oliver Wendell Holmes  by William Dean Howells
• John Lothrop Motley by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• Washington Irving
• Washington Irving by Charles Dudley Warner
• Henry James, Jr.
• Henry James, Jr. (essay) by William Dean Howells
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: The White Mr. Longfellow by William Dean Howells
• James Russell Lowell
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: Studies of Lowell by William Dean Howells
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe (her son)
• Mark Twain
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
• Mark Twain: A Biography (in three volumes) by Albert Bigelow Paine
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
• A Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain
• The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
• Roughing It by Mark Twain
• A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Literary Biographies and Autobiographies -- English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Authors

• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin, 1910
• R.F. Murray, His Poems with a Memoir by Andrew Lang by Andrew Lang
• The Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson
• Joseph Addison, Richard Savage, Jonathan Swift
• Gay, Gray, Thomson, Young, and others
• Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, and Pope
• Waller, Milton, Cowley
• The Lives of English Poets from Johnson to Kirke White, designed as a continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Cary (1846)
• Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) by Theophilus Cibber
• volume 1
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets by George Gilfillan
• Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert et al. volume 2, 1675
• Chaucer
• Chaucer's Official Life by Jame Root Hulbert
• Life of Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward
• Shakespeare
• Bacon is Shake-speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
• Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain
• The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
• Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
• Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen (in German) by Kuno Fischer
• Shakespeare's Bones by C.M. Ingleby
• Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Case Thereof
• Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
• Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, volume 1, by Rev. H.N. Hudson
• Francis Bacon
• Bacon by R.W. Church
• Spenser
• A Biograpy of Edmund Spenser by John Hales
• John Bunyan
• Life of Bunyan by James Hamilton
• Life of John Bunyan by Venables
• The Riches of Bunyan by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin
• John Milton
• Life of Milton by David Nasson
• volume 3
• volume 5
• Milton by Mark Pattison
• William Cowper
• Cowper by Godwin Smith
• Daniel Defoe
• Daniel Defoe by William Minto
• George Crabbe
• Crabbe by Alfred Ainger
• John Gay
• Life and Letters of John Gar by Lewis Melville
• Samuel Johnson
• Life of Johnson (abridged) by James Boswell
• Life of Johnson (unabridged) by James Boswell
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6 (of 6)
• Samuel Johnson by Leslie Stephen
• Henry Fielding
• Fielding by Austin Dobson
• Henry Fielding a Memoir by G.M. Gooden
• Laurence Sterne
• Sterne by H. D. Traill
• Richard Sheridan
• Memoirs of Richard Sheridan by Thomas Moore
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Sir Walter Scott
• Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Specimens of the Table Talk of Coleridge
• Coleridge by H.D. Traill
• The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gillman (1838)
• Biographia Literaria
• Biographis Epistolaris, volume 1
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth by F.W.H. Myers
• Lord Byron
• Byron by John Nichol
• The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
• Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Life of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore, volume 6
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Mary Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds
• Shelley by Francis Thompson
• Shelley by Sydney Waterlow
• The Bronte Sisters
• The Three Brontes by May Sinclair
• Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell by Charlotte Bronte
• Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Thomas de Quincy
• Notebook of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
• Confessions of an Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
• Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey
• Thomas Carlyle
• Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol (1904)
• Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
• Charles Lamb
• Charles Lamb by Barry Cornwall
• George Borrow
• The Life of George Borrow by Herbert Jenkins
• Samuel Butler
• Samuel Butler: a Sketch by Henry Festing Jones
• George Eliot
• George Eliot: a Critical Study by George Willis Cooke
• James Anthony Froude
• Life of Froude by Herbert Paul
• Robert Browning
• Introduction to Browing by Hiram Corson
• Life and Letters of Robert Browing by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
• Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp
• Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
• Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Phelps
• Robert Browning by C.H. Herford
• John Ruskin
• Life of John Ruskin by W. G. Collingwood
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Robert Louis Stevenson by A.H. Japp
• Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir Walter Raleigh
• John Synge
• John Synge: a few personal recollections by John Masefield
• Anthony Trollope
• What I Remember, volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (brother of Anthony)
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
• Oscar Wilde
• Oscar Wilde -- His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Frank Harris

Literary Biographies and Autobiographies -- Danish Authors

• Hans Christian Andersen
The True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen

Literary Biographies and Autobiographies -- French Authors

• Paul Bourget
• Essays on Paul Bourget by Mark Twain (short)
• D'Alembert
• D'Alembert by Joseph Bertrand (in French)
• Gustave Flaubert
• The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
• Alfred de Musset
• A Child of the Century, in English, by Alfred de Musset
• Part 1
• Book 3
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Confessions
• Rousseau by John Morley, volume 1
• Georges Sand
• George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by Rene Doumic, translated to English by Alys Hallard
• Charles-Auguste Sainte Beuve
• Portraits Litteraires
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Emile Zola
• Emile Zola  by William Dean Howells
• With Zola in England, a Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Literary Biographies and Autobiographies -- German Authors

• Georg Ebers
• The Story of My Life, Autobiography translated by Mary Safford
• Schiller
• The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
• Schiller's Biographie by H. Doering (in German)
• Goethe
• Goethe's Biographie by Dr. H. Doering, 1853 (in German)
• Italiennische Reise
• part 1
• with accents
• without accents
• part 2
• with accents
• without accents

Literary Biographies and Autobiographies -- Norwegian Authors

• Henrick Ibsen by Edmund Grosse

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- General

Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Uses of Great Men
• Plato; or, the Philosopher
• Plato; New Readings
• Swedenborg; or, the Mystic
• Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
• Shakspeare; or, the Poet
• Napoleon; or, the Man of the World
• Goethe; or, the Writer

Celebrated Crimes -- 18 books in a single file, in English by Alexandre Dumas

• The Borgias
• The Cenci
• Massacres of the South
• Mary Stuart
• Karl-Ludwig Sand
• Urbain Grandier
• Nisida
• Desrues
• La Constantin
• Joan of Naples
• The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
• Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
• Ali Pacha
• The Countess of Saint Geran
• Murat
• The Marquise de Brinvilliers
• Vaninka
• The Marquise de Ganges
• Female Scripture Biography by Francis Augustus Cox
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Hermits by Charles Kingsley
• The Love Affairs of Great Composers, volume 1, by Rupert Hughes, 1903
• Great Astronomers by R.S. Ball
• Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes
• 19th Century Actor Autobiographies edited by George Iles
• Masters of Space by Walter Kellogg Towers, 1917
• Morse and the Telegraph
• Thompson and the Cable
• Bell and the Telephone
• Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph
• Carty and the Wireless TelephoneMORSE
• Rough and Tumble Engineering by James Maggard
• Stories of Inventors by Russell Doubleday, 1904
• A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H.B. Irving
• Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, 1735. edited by Arthur Hayward
• Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen
• Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton
• Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times by E.S. Brooks
• Women in the Fine Arts by Clara Erskine Clement
• The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
• Women Workers in Seven Professions by Edith Morley

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- African

• Saint Augustin by Louis Bertrand
• St. Augustine's Confessions
• Henri Blanc
• Ma Captivite en Abyssinie
• Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- American

• George Washington
• The Life of George Washington, Volume 1, by Washington Irving
• Washington and His Colleagues by Henry Jones Ford
• George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer, 1922
• George Washington by Henry Cabot Lodge
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Life and Times of George Washington, volume 2 John Schroeder and Benson Lossing
• The True George Washington by Paul Leicester Ford
• George Washington's Rules of Civility by Moncure Conway
• Washington's Domestic Life by Richard Rush, 1857
• George Washington Farmer by Paul Leland
• Thomas Jefferson
• Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
• Jefferson and His Colleagues, a Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty by Allen Johnson
• Thomas Jefferson by Edward S. Ellis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell (short)
• Abraham Lincoln by George Putnam
• Abraham Lincoln, a History by John Nicolay and John Hay, volume 2, 1890
• Abraham Lincoln by John T. Morse
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay
• The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Browne
• The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner
• Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
• Lincoln; An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
• The Lincoln Story Book by Henry Williams
• Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller, With Introduction and Anecdotes By Colonel Alexander K. McClure
• Writings of Abraham Lincoln
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Theodore Roosevelt
• The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, 1899
• Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Lester Pearson
• Theodore Roosevelt: an Intimate Biography by William Thayer
• Francis Marion
• The Life of Francis Marion by W. Gilmore Simms
• The Life of General Francis Marion by Mason Locke Weems
• Sketch of the Life of General Francis Marion by William Dobein James
• A Life of General Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke, 1876
• Peter Stuyvesant by John Abbott
• Memories of Mrs. Fannie Beers [Civil War]
• Brave Men and Women by O.E. Fuller
• Revolutionary Heroes by James Parton
• John Marshall And The Constitution, A Chronicle Of The Supreme Court by Edward S. Corwin
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
• Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia by Thaddeus Mason Harris
• James Otis the Pre-Revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath
• Original Writings of Samuel Adams
• Volume 2 of 4
• Volume 3 of 4
• Volume 4 of 4
• Biographical Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mrs. Hutchinson
• Sir William Phips
• Thomas Green Fessenden
• Jonathan Cilly
• The Making of an American (autobiography) by Jacob Riis
• Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain [Boston, Massachusetts] by Harriet Whitcomb
• Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker
• Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge
• Famous Americans of Recent Times, 1867, by James Parton
• The Life and Adventures of Major Roger Sherman Potter by Pheleg van Trusedale
• The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Fredric Austin Ogg
• Captains of the Civil War: a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by William Wood
• On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill
• Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by Colonel G.F.R. Henderson
• Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton
• A Backward Glance at 80 by Charles Murdock, 1921
• My Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (WW I)
• Experiences of a Bandmaster by John Philip Sousa (short)
• Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
• My Life and Work by Henry Ford
• Our Foreigners: a Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Samuel Orth
• Stephen Douglas by Allen Johnson, 1908
• William Lloyd Garrison by Archibald Grimke
• The World as I Found It by Mary Day Arms [blind]
• Benjamin Franklin
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Thayer, 1889
• Black Americans
• Biography of a Slave by Charles Thompson
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa but resident above 60 years in the USA, related by himself, Venture Smith, 1798
• Frederick Douglass
• My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
• My Escape from Slavery (article) by Frederick Douglass
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Frederick Douglass 1899 by Charles Chestnutt
• Native Americans
• An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha or Red Jacket and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard
• Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk by Black Hawk (re: Black Hawk War of 1832)
• Sequoyah (from Harper's New Monthly) (short)
• Indian Boyhood by Charles Eastman
• Wild West
• Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson (short)
• Christopher Carson by John Abbott
• The First White Man of the West [Daniel Boone] by Timothy Flint, 1856
• The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself (article) by Mathy Canary Burk
• Autobiography of Buffalo Bill
• The Life [autobiography] of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, 1879
• The Life of Kit Carson by Edward Ellis
• American Pioneers and Patriots: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John Abbott
• Adventures of a 49er by Daniel Knower, 1894
• Log-Cabin Lady by anonymous

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Arabian

• The Diwan of Abu'd-Ala by Henry Baerlin
• Mahomet, Founder of Islam by G.M. Draycott

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Australian

• Five Months at Anzac by Joseph Beeston

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- British and Irish

• A Voyage to the South Sea by William Bligh
• William Lilly's History of His Life and Times 1602-1681, 1715
• Sketches of the Covenanters by J.C. McFeeters
• The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army by G.S. Railton, 1912
• Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
• Frank Reynolds by A.E. Johnson
• A Publisher and His Friends, memoir and correspondence of John Murray by Samuel Smiles
• Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
• Life of Thomas Telford: Civil Engineer by Samuel Smiles
• Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
• James Nasmyth: Engineer, an Autobiography edited by Samuel Smiles
• Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
• In the Ranks of the C.I.V. [Boer War] by Driver Erskine Childers, 1900
• Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock
• William Ewart Gladstone by James Bryce
• William the Conqueror by E.A. Freeman
• Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
• Charles Philip Yorke, Vice-Admiral by Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
• Life of the Edward Earl of Clarendon [17th century] volume 2 by Henry Craik
• The Life of Colonel James Gardiner who was slain at the Battle of Prectonpaus, Sept. 21, 1745 by P. Doddridge
• Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W.P. Livingstone
• The Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte Yonge
• A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries and the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864
• Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• The Reign of Henry VIII by James Anthony Froude, volume 1
• Thomas Huxley
• Autobiography and Selected Essays (book) by Thomas Huxley
• Thomas Henry Huxley by Leonard Huxley, 1920
• Irish
• Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
• The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
• The Legends of Saint Patrick by Aubrey de Vere
• Queen Victoria
• Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
• Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood and Womanhood by Grace Greenwood
• Queen Victoria: Story of Her Life and Reign by anonymous
• Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, volume 2, by Sarah Tytler
• Charles Darwin
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Darwin and Modern Science by A.C. Seward
• Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller, translated by W.S. Dallas
• Life and Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• More Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Captain Cook
• Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook by A. Kippis
• The Life of Captain James Cook by Arthur Kitson, 1907
• Captain Scott
• The Voyages of Captain Scott by Charles Turley
• Scott's Last Expedition by Captain R.F. Scott volume 1 of 2

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Canadian

• Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV by Francis Parkman
• Lord Elgin by Sir John George Bourinot

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- French

• Joan of Arc
• Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death by Mrs. Oliphant
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Boy Life of Napoleon by Eugenie Foa, 1895
• Folk Tales of Napoleon by Honore de Balzac and Alexander Amphitreahof
• Napoleon Bonaparte by John Abbott
• Oeuvres de Napoleon Bonaparte, 1821
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Charles the Bold, last Duke of Burgundy 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam
• Jean Francois Millet by Estelle Hurll
• My Double Life: the Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, 1907
• The Idol of Paris by Sarah Bernhardt
• Robert 1 et Raoul de Bourgogne: Rois de France 925-936 by Ph. Lauer, 1910
• The Life of Marie Antoinette by Charles Duke Yonge, 1876
• Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de l'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century by Robinson and Overton, 1903
• Life of Marie de Medicis by Julia Pardoe
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• My Days of Adventure: the Fall of France 1870-71 by Ernest Vizetelly
• Three Frenchmen in Bengal or the Commerical Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by S.C. Hill, 1903

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- German and Austrian

• History of Friedrich II of Prussia by Thomas Carlyle
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10
• Volume 11
• Volume 12
• Volume 13
• Volume 14
• Volume 15
• Volume 16
• Volume 17
• Volume 18
• Volume 19
• Volume 20
• Volume 21
• Appendix
• For Greater Things: The story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka by William T. Kane, S.J.
• Life of Luther by Julius Kostlin
• Bismarck and the Foundations of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Hadlam
• William of Germany by Stanley Shaw, 1913
• Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, translated by Thomas Holcroft
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• My Life by Richard Wagner
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Mozart: the Man and the Artist by Friedrich Kerst, translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel
• Kepler by Walter Bryant, 1920
• Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
• Beethoven: the Man and the Artist by Friedrich Kerst, translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel
• Hayden by J. Cuthbert Hadden

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Greek and Roman

Caesar: a Sketch by James Froude

History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott

Caesar's Commentaries, translated by W.as. MacDevitt

The Gallic War, in Latin, by Julius Caesar

• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4

Rice Holmes' commentary on The Gallic War by Julius Caesar, in English

• Preface
• On Book 1
• On Book 2
• On Book 3
• Geographical Index
• Appendix

Lives or Parallel Lives, by Plutarch translated by A.H. Clough, includes 50 biographies, 23 Greek, 23 Roman, 2 others:

• Theseus
• Romulus
• Lycurgus
• Numa Pompilius
• Solon
• Poplicola
• Themistocles
• Camillus
• Pericles
• Fabius
• Alcibiades
• Coriolanus
• Timoleon
• Aemilius Paulus
• Pelopidas
• Marcellus
• Aristides
• Marcus Cato
• Philopoemen
• Flamininus
• Pyrrhus
• Caius Marius
• Lysander
• Sylla
• Cimon
• Lucullus
• Nicias
• Crassus
• Sertorius
• Eumenes
• Agesilaus
• Pompey
• Alexander
• Caesar
• Phocion
• Cato the Younger
• Agis
• Cleomenes
• Tiberius Gracchus
• Caius Gracchus
• Demosthenes
• Cicero
• Demetrius
• Antony
• Dion
• Marcus Brutus
• Aratus
• Artaxerxes
• Galba
• Otho
• Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus (The Book of Excellent Leaders) by Nepos, in Latin
• Preface
• Life of Agesilaus
• Life of Aristides
• Life of Cimon
• Life of Dion
• Life of Epaminondas
• Life of Hamilcar
• Life of Hannibal
• Life of Lysander
• Life of Miltiades
• Life of Pausanias
• Life of Themistocles
• Xenophon translated by H. G. Dakyns
• Agesilaus
• Hiero
• An Easter Disciple: the Chronicle of Quintus the Roman Knight by Arthur Benton Sanford, 1922
• The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla, by A.H. Beesley, 1921
• The Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope, volume 1 of 2
• Lives of the 12 Caesars and Lives of Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets by Suetonius
• Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott
• Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators
• The Caesars by Thomas de Quincey
• Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwick, 1910

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Indian

• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Italian

• Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini
• The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, translated to English by W.K. Marriott
• The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, by Niccolo Machiavelli translated to English by W.K. Marriott (short)
• Life and Legends of St. Francis of Assisi by Father Candide Chalippe
• Life of St. Frances of Rome by Lady Georgiana Fullerton
• Cavour by Countess Eveyln Martinengo-Cesaresco
• Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (short)
• Knights of the Arts: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman
• Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell
• Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
• The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas (from Celebrated Crimes)
• Giorgione by Herbert Cook, 1904
• Christopher Columbus
• Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
• volume 2

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Jewish/Israeli

• Beacon Lights of History Volume 2 -- Jewish Heroes and Prophets
• Life of Flavius Josephus

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Polish

• Chopin: the Man and His Music by James Huneker
• Chopin as Man and Musician by Frederick Niecks
• Life of Chopin by Franz Liszt

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Scandinavian

• Swedenborg or the Mystic by Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Representative Men)
• The Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle
• Hero Tales of the Far North by Jacob Riis

Other Biographies and Autobiographies -- Spanish and Latin American

• History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by William Prescott
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Life in Mexico, 1843, by Frances Calderon de la Barca
• The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus by St. Teresa
• Life of St. Francis Xavier by John Dryden

Journals (both real and fictitious)

• Journal des Goncourts: Memoires de la Vie Litteraire
• volume 1 1851-1861
• volume 2 1872-1865
• Journals of Lewis and Clark by Merriweather Lewis and William Clark
• The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
• Margaret Smith's Journal 1678-9 Tales and Sketches by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge, edted by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Journal of a Solitary Man by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
• The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
• Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides by James Boswell
• Letters and Journals by Lord Byron
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Marie Bashkirtseff, translated by Mary Safford
• Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Mark Rutherford
• Lauder of Fountainball's Journals 1665-1676 by Sir John Lauder
• Letters and Journals of James, Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, Governor-General of Canada, Envoy to China, and Viceroy of India
• Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World
• Himalayan Journals by J.D. Hooker
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 By Frances Anne Kemble
• Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Diaries (both real and fictitious)

• Eve's Diary (story) by Mark Twain
• Extract's from Adam's Diary (story) by Mark Twain
• Diary of Samuel Pepys
• Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
• Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome
• Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Tibet by Captain Knight
• Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett
• Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay
• volume 1, 1778-1787
• volume 2, 1787-1792
• A Gunner ABoard the Yankee [Spanish-American War] edited by H.H. Lewis, 1896
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
• South African Memories by Lady Sarah Wilson, 1909

Memoirs and Reminiscences (both real and fictitious)

• Memories pour Servir a l'Histoire de mon Temps by M. Guizot
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• Memoirs of a Cavalier by Daniel Defoe
• Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864)
• Memoirs by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549)
• Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, from the Dutch War 1672 to the Conclusion of the Peace at Utrecht 1713
• Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins, 1719
• Memoires de Mame la Marquise de la Rochejaquelin
• Touchstone of the Future: Memoirs of Baron Clyde [reign of Charles II] by Charles Major
• Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingault, the unabridged London edition of 1894, translated to English by Arthur Machen, to which has been added the chapters discovered by Arthur Symons; originally written in French, although the author was Italian
• Volume 1 -- Venetian Years
• Volume 1a -- Childhood
• Volume 1b -- A Cleric in Naples
• Volume 1c -- Military Career
• Volume 1d -- Return to Venice
• Volume 1e -- Milan and Mantua
• Volume 2 -- To Paris and Prison
• Volume 2a -- Paris
• Volume 2b -- Venice
• Volume 2c -- Convent Affairs
• Volume 2d -- The False Nun
• Volume 2e -- Under the Leads
• Volume 3 -- The Eternal Quest
• Volume 3a -- Paris and Holland
• Volume 3b -- Return to Paris
• Volume 3c -- Holland and Germany
• Volume 3d -- Switzerland
• Volume 3e -- With Voltaire
• Volume 4 -- Adventures in the South
• Volume 4a -- Depart Switzerland
• Volume 4b -- Return to Italy
• Volume 4c -- Return to Naples
• Volume 4d -- Back Again to Paris
• Volume 4e -- Milan
• Volume 5 -- In London and Moscow
• Volume 5a -- South of France
• Volume 5b -- To London
• Volume 5c -- The English
• Volume 5d -- London to Berlin
• Volume 5e -- Russia and Poland
• Volume 6 -- Spanish Passions
• Volume 6a -- Spain
• Volume 6b -- Expelled from Spain
• Volume 6c -- Rome
• Volume 6d -- Florence to Trieste
• Volume 6e -- Old Age and Death
• Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Written by Himself, Being Historic Court Memoirs of the Great Events during the Minority of Louis XIV. and the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. (4 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of Madame La Marquise de Montespan Written by Herself, Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV (7 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency, Being the Secret Memoirs of the Mother of the Regent, Madame Elizabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Duchesse d'Orleans (4 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by the Duck of Saint-Simon (15 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of Louis XV and XVI Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset,  Lady's Maid to Madame

de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe (7 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campan, first lady in waiting to the queen (7 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of Europe: Memoirs of Marguareite de Valois, of Madame de Pompadour, and of Catherine de Medici
• Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon by Constant, Premier Valet de Chambre, translated by Walter Clark (12 volumes, 1.7 Mbytes in a single file)
• Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud by Stewarton (7 volumes in one file)
• The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, his private secretary, edited by R.W. Phipps (16 volumes, 2.8 Mbytes, in a single file)
• The Court of the Empress Josephine by Imbert de Saint-Amand, translated by Thomas Perry, 1900
• Memoirs of Prince de Joinville (translated by Lady Mary Cord)
• Secret Memoris of the Courts of Europe: William II of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria Hungary by Mme. La Marquise de Fontenay
• Memories of Fifty Years by W.H. Sparks
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Memoirs of Aaron Burr by Matthew Davis
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Personal Memoirs of Philip Henry Sheridan
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Military Reminiscences of the Civil War by Jacob Cox
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph Tumulty
• Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by his son Captain Robert E. Lee
• Albrecht Durer's Memoirs of Journeys to Venice
• My Memories of 80 Years by Chauncey Depew
• Memoirs of General Lafayette by Lafayette
• Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Frank Moore
• Reminiscences of a Pioneer by Colonel Willam Thompson, 1912

Offical Papers and Notebooks

• A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of Presidents by James Richardson, 1897
• George Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• James Monroe
• John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Jackson
• Martin Van Buren
• William Henry Harrison
• John Tyler
• James Polk
• Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
• Franklin Pierce
• James Buchanan
• Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
• Andrew Johnson
• Ulysses Grant
• Rutherford Hayes
• Chester Arthur
• Grover Cleveland 1893 to 1897
• Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
• Grover Cleveland [first term] (1885-1889)
• McKinley volume 1
• McKinley volume 2
• Theodore Roosevelt
• The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Biographical Novels

Louise Muhlbach

Henry VIII and His Court

Mohammed Ali and His House

The Empress Josephine

Marie Antoinette and her Son

Napoleon and Blucher

Queen Hortense, a Life History of the Napoleonic Era, translated by Chapman Coleman, 1920

Andreas Hofer

Berlin and Sans Soucis or Frederick the Great and His Friends

Frederick the Great and His Family

Joseph II and His Court

Louisa of Prussia

The Merchant of Berlin, translated by Amory Coffin, 1910

Old Fritz and the New Era

The Daughter of an Empress by Louise Muhlbach

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
• volume 1, in German with accents
• volume 1, in German without accents
• volume 2, in German with accents
• volume 2, in German without accents
• volume 3, in German with accents
• volume 3, in German without accents
• volume 4, in German with accents
• volume 4, in German without accents
• volume 5, in German with accents
• volume 5, in German without accents
• volume 6, in German with accents
• volume 6, in German without accents
• volume 7, in German with accents
• volume 7, in German without accents
• volume 8, in German with accents
• volume 8, in German without accents
• Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre
• volume 1, in German with accents
• volume 1, in German without accents
• volume 2, in German with accents
• volume 2, in German without accents
• volume 3, in German with accents
• volume 3, in German without accents

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Charles Kingsley

Hypatia

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy