Found 14,299 results for "Biography in literature"
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet A. Jacobs
Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nur selten beherbergen Ahnenhallen den Sommer über ganz gewöhnliche Leute wie John und mich.
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Flush
by Virginia Woolf, Eileen Atkins
IT IS universally admitted that the family from which the subject of this memoir claims descent is one of the greatest a...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of log...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
Twelve years a slave
by Solomon Northup
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...
Se questo è un uomo
by Primo Levi
I WAS captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.
Bambi
by Felix Salten
He came into the world in the middle of the thicket, in one of those little, hidden forest glades which seem to be entir...
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Anne of Avonlea
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...