Биографии и Мемуары
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"I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive." So begins «The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.» Originally published in two parts in the «London Magazine» in 1821, it is a gripping account of one Englishman's addiction to opium. Thomas De Quincey details the effects of his opium use and in...
| Автор | de Quincey Thomas |
Captain Robert F. Scott's famed expedition to the South Pole from 1910-1912 propelled him in the international spotlight. Scott quickly ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy, becoming a master. His harrowing journey to Antarctica is presented in these journals with unprecedented realism and lucidity. The toils, the troubles, and the successes are brought to life through Scott's pen. His journals create a vivid narrative of his Terra Nova trek—the scientific findings, the nautical...
| Автор | Captain Robert F. Scott |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
The public has always had a fascination with true crime, from the Victorian era to the present day. This collection presents 4 classic true crime books in one volume. Three are by Wenzell Brown, who worked with troubled teenagers in New York, turning their stories to stories for his books. Ones is by Martin M. Frank, who worked as an Assistant District Attorney, bringing his experiences to book form. Included in this volume:<P> TEEN-AGE TERROR, by Wenzell Brown<BR> BEDEVILED, by...
| Автор | Wenzell Brown |
Written during the reign of Hadrian, by Hadrian personal secretary, Suetonius, «The Twelve Caesars» was the most popular and longest of Suetonius's surviving works. Beginning with the life of Julius Caesar and continuing with the first eleven emperors of Rome who followed him, «The Twelve Caesars» is one of the most important historical bibliographical works of the Roman Empire and discusses the critical period in Roman history known as the Principate, from the end of the Republic to the...
| Автор | Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus |
As a reporter for the «New York Evening Post» during the time of New York's Tammany Hall Machine, William Riordan compiled and published this work in 1905 from a series of articles he wrote on George Washington Plunkitt, the millionaire ward boss of New York's 15th District. Plunkitt is best remembered as a streetwise politician who practiced what he called «honest graft,» or what is otherwise known today as «machine politics.» Of the Tammany Hall bosses, he alone spoke candidly and on...
| Автор | William Riordon |
In August of 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set out with a crew of twenty-eight aboard the ship 'Endurance' in an effort to become the first men to cross the vast Antarctic land mass. Their adventurous tale of exploration soon became a struggle for survival when the ship was enclosed by a sea of ice which slowly crushed it leaving them stranded in a barren icy wilderness. What would follow is one of the most gripping tales of heroism and survival in the face of almost certain death to have...
| Автор | Ernest Shackleton |
Frances Anne Kemble, (1809-1893) referred to as Fanny, was a famous British actress and author in the early to mid nineteenth century. As a member of the famous Kemble theatrical family, she first appeared on stage as Juliet at Covent Garden. She played many principal women's parts, notably Portia, Beatrice and Lady Teazle. She retired from the stage in 1834 to marry Pierce Butler, grandson of the Founding Father, Pierce Butler. He had inherited his grandfather's sea island plantations...
| Автор | Frances Anne Kemble |
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born into little means. His difficult youth and early academic failure stacked the cards against him. Yet he became one of the 19th century's most revered and influential novelists, helping, along with Dickens and Thackeray, to define an era of Victorian literature. During his prolific career as an author, he penned over forty novels. The «Barsetshire» and «Palliser» series defined his career, establishing him as a formidable writer. Trollope's...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
The «Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass» is regarded as one of the most important accounts of slavery in 19th century America that has ever been written. The story accounts Douglass's life from early childhood growing up on a Southern Plantation to his eventual escape to the North. Douglass tells of his life with various owners, his struggle to learn and teach other slaves, and his eventual escape from slavery. As an escaped slave Douglass becomes a passionate abolitionist and...
| Автор | Frederick Douglass |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
One of America's most famous patriots, Benjamin Franklin was more than just a founding father of the country. He was a prolific writer, tradesman, scientist, and philosopher who had major influences in France, England, and America. Franklin made it clear through his works that he believed in both spirituality and science at the same time, and he wrote about how the two ideas can converge. He was quite famous during his life, but his fame lives on through his writings and discoveries. In the...
| Автор | Бенджамин Франклин |
Geronimo, one of the greatest Apache warriors and American legends, gives his first-hand account of his life in the aptly named autobiography «Geronimo's Story of His Life.» The famous chief orally told his story to S.M. Barrett, a Superintendent of Education in Oklahoma, and Barrett published the book with little to no deviations from Geronimo's interview. This is extraordinary, considering that many propaganda campaigns were created against Geronimo in an attempt to rally the...
| Автор | Geronimo |
"The Story of My Life" is the Autobiography of Helen Keller, a classic American story of overcoming great hardship. Helen Keller, born in 1880, fell ill at age six. While the illness did not last long it left her both deaf and blind. Helen's family soon contacted the «Perkins Institute for the Blind» and the Institute sent Anne Sullivan, who herself was visually impaired, to help educate Helen. «The Story of My Life» is a story of a young woman's struggle to deal with a great...
| Автор | Helen Keller |
Few figures are more seminal in the abolitionist movement in America than John Brown. His firebrand approach to the movement arose out of his religiously inspired and deep-seated belief that slavery was not only morally unjust but that its removal from American society could only be achieved through armed insurrection. Following his capture in 1859 during an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry and his subsequent hanging he became an electrifying and symbolical figure for the...
| Автор | W. E. B. Du Bois |
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova...
| Автор | Giacomo Casanova |
Описана реальная история человека, который прошел путь невротика, сломленной жертвы. История человека, который искал путь, как выбраться из невроза, а так же, как он туда попал. Что способствовало этому? Какие-то силы? Окружающие, родные, друзья? Какие-то события? Стрессы? Или это кара за грехи?
Все герои и сюжеты из жизни…
| Автор | Ольга Викторовна Фридель |
Автобиографическая книга с использованием элементов фантастики, лежащих в основе начальных лет жизни автора. Вся последующая жизнь, его поступки, невероятные случаи и происшествия, несмотря на кажущуюся фантастичность, происходили в действительности. С определённой долей юмора описывается нелёгкая доля геолога, работающего в разных краях страны: на юге и Крайнем Севере, в горах и глубоко под землёй.
| Автор | Борис Наумов |
Камиль Ларин – актер театра и кино, один из основателей коллектива «Квартет И». Во время жесткого мирового локдауна, когда все бросились читать книги, он начал их писать. Обычные сказки оказались слишком скучными для комика – так родились сказки-пересказки, именуемые «Карантинный полубред, или Сказки на ночь для маленьких взрослых». На страницах книги вам встретится Принц с раздвоением личности, принципиальный Свинопас, чумная Щука и многие другие любимые герои! А помимо этого в ней вы...
| Автор | Камиль Ларин |