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  • Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume I (in Two Volumes)
    Mark Twain
    'Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind.'-Albert Bigelow Paine, Foreword, Mark Twain’s Letters (1917) Mark Twain’s Letters (in two volumes) is a collection of letters ...
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    32,10 €

  • Path Breaking
    Abigail Scott Duniway
    Tenacious advocate for women’s rights Abigail Scott Duniway offers her life story, describing the intense, decades-long struggle to attain voting rights for American women.Although the author recalls her own upbringing and ascendance to a position of leadership in the Women’s Suffrage movement of the late 19th century, she is emphatically clear almost from the start that this n...
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    14,93 €

  • The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
    John Muir
    The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is a stirring autobiography by the great American naturalist, John Muir.'When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I’ve been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness, though most of t...
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    24,53 €

  • Is Shakespeare Dead?
    Mark Twain
    'From away back toward the very beginning of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy I have been on the Bacon side, and have wanted to see our majestic Shakespeare unhorsed. My reasons for this attitude may have been good, they may have been bad, but such as they were, they strongly influenced me.'-Mark Twain  (1909)Is Shakespeare Dead?-From My Autobiography (1909), by Mark Twain, is...
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    18,35 €

  • My Apprenticeship (Two Volumes in One)
    Beatrice Webb
    'It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.' -Beatrice Potter Webb, My ApprenticeshipIn My Apprenticeship (1926), Beatrice Potter Webb provided the first of several memoirs based on diaries she kept. It begins the story of her life starting at the age of 4 and describes her developm...
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    55,87 €

  • The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan
    Mary Baird Bryan / William Jennings Bryan
    'The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.'-William Jennings Bryan The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan (1925) consists of quotations from Bryan’s speeches and correspondence interspersed with commentary written by his wife after his death. It is a document that explains Bryan’s complex belief system,...
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    48,43 €

  • Memories of My Life
    Francis Galton
    '... hardly any other living Englishman can point to so great an amount of truly scientific work applied to some of the fundamental problems of human welfare.' -G.E. Gehlke, Political Science Quarterly (1910)In Memories of My Life (1908), Sir Francis Galton provided a detailed autobiography that starts with a description of his family of origin (he was a cousin of Charles Darwi...
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    20,80 €

  • The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland
    Marie-Jeanne Roland
    'If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.'-Memoirs of Madame de Staël and of Madame Roland (1847)The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland (1795) is a justification of the author’s and others’ roles in the French Revolution. Written while the author was imprisoned during the months before her execution, it was smuggled to a close friend, ...
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    25,83 €

  • Up From Slavery
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute.  Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice.  This is his story.“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed,” states Washington.Read of his inspirational life in this unabridged, af...
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    17,58 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute.  Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice.  This is his story.“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed,” states Washington.Read of his inspirational life in this unabridged, af...
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    8,37 €

  • Maria Mitchell
    Maria Mitchell
    Maria Mitchell was among the first female astronomers. This is her story in her own words, compiled from letters and diary entries as she toured academies to deliver her scientific lectures.Born in Massachusetts in 1818, Maria demonstrated an affinity for astronomy and science from a young age. At the time it was almost impossible for a woman to gain a formal education in scien...
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    12,20 €

  • Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865
    TBD / Ward Hill Lamon
    This classic political biography is among the most thorough and fascinating biographies of the great American president Abraham Lincoln. In addition to the expected biographical content, this book is comprised of letters from Lincoln and his associates that provide intimate insights to the final two decades of the great man’s life.Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, ...
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    26,30 €

  • Across the Plains
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'America was to me a sort of promised land; ’westward the march of empire holds its way’; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . 'Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Ste...
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    18,72 €

  • John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
    John G. Paton / John GPaton
    John G. Paton narrates his eventful life as a missionary to the New Hebrides - modern-day Vanuatu - in a frank and vivid manner. Beginning with his upbringing and education in Scotland, we realize early on that Paton carried unusual dedication and energy in his studies. Determining that he would become a man of God, spreading the word of the Christian gospel as a missionary, it...
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    12,46 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I
    Charles Darwin
    'In the selection and arrangement of the material he [Francis Darwin] was chiefly guided by a wish to portray his father’s personal character, and he succeeded...in giving a true picture of the man and the student, the methods of Darwin’s work and the gradual development of his opinions.' -The Times (1925)The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I (1896) is a compilation...
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    29,04 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II
    Charles Darwin
    'If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we may be all melted together.' -Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1896)The Life and Letters of ...
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    29,03 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Two Volumes in One
    Charles Darwin
    'If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we may be all melted together.' -Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1896)The Life and Letters of ...
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    57,31 €

  • Reminiscences of an Old Timer
    Colonel George Hunter
    Colonel Hunter’s account of Old West life takes us through the California Gold Rush and a variety of rip-roaring incidents across the United States’ western frontier.Full of beans and bristling with wit, Hunter introduces himself as an eager young apprentice. He accompanied his father, who aspired to strike it rich in the Gold Rush. Although riches eluded the pair, adventure di...
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    14,85 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Two Volumes in One
    Charles Darwin
    'If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we may be all melted together.' -Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1896)The Life and Letters of ...
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    72,10 €

  • Roughing It
    Mark Twain
    'This book is merely a personal narrative and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation...Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter.'-Mark Twain (1872) Roughing It (...
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    21,06 €

  • Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
    Mark Twain
    'Arthur Twain was a man of considerable note-a solicitor on the highway in William Rufus’ time. At about the age of thirty he went to one of those fine old English places ofresort called Newgate, to see about something, and never returned again. While there he diedsuddenly.'-Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography (1871)Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and Fi...
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    13,05 €

  • Beethoven’s Letters 1790 - 1826
    Lady Grace Jane Wallace / Ludvig van Beethoven
    Beethoven’s correspondences reveal much about his personality, inner struggles, and love of music. This edition includes all of the musical staves appended by the great composer to his letters.The second volume of Beethoven’s letters begin with the composer in maturity. In these later years, several of his most accomplished and beautiful musical works were completed. It is clea...
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    9,88 €

  • Beethoven’s Letters 1790 - 1826
    Ludvig van Beethoven / Lady Grace Jane Wallace
    The publisher presents the entirety of Beethoven’s Letters in two volumes, inclusive of the musical staves which the legendary composer appended to his personal correspondences.The first volume of Ludwig van Beethoven’s letters covers the period from his youth as an ambitious and fledgling young talent living in Vienna, to his peak years wherein he saw musical composition not m...
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    9,89 €

  • Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum
    Hiram Chase
    Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum is a memoir of the author's time spent in a Utica, New York insane asylum. I have been urged ever since I left the mental asylum, by friends, to write my history of those two unfortunate years, and give it to the public. This I did purpose to do while I was in the mental asylum, as soon as I left it, while all things would be fr...
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    19,32 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Jacobs
    The voice of a black female slave, written in her own hand, as she struggles for identity and freedom.  What is it to serve a master? What is it to know you are bought free? Read for yourself. ...
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    8,44 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Jacobs
    The voice of a black female slave, written in her own hand, as she struggles for identity and freedom.  What is it to serve a master? What is it to know you are bought free? Read for yourself. ...
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    18,86 €

  • Forty-Four Years, the Life of a Hunter
    Meshach Browning
    Meshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s – this is his story, in his own words.Born in modest circumstances, Browning grew up at a time when the United States as a nation was in its infancy, with much of the population living in rural areas. From his youth, the author vowed to be self-s...
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    17,36 €

  • Forty-Four Years, the Life of a Hunter
    Meshach Browning
    Meshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s – this is his story, in his own words.Born in modest circumstances, Browning grew up at a time when the United States as a nation was in its infancy, with much of the population living in rural areas. From his youth, the author vowed to be self-s...
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    27,75 €

  • Walden (Chump Change Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Wald...
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    8,43 €

  • Walden (Chump Change Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Wald...
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    18,84 €


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