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Mémoires
by Giacomo Casanova
"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant
THE reply (to my telegram of October 16, 1863, from Cairo, announcing my arrival at that point) came on the morning of t...
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...
A Mind That Found Itself
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...
The Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
OUR long months of preparation and planning for the greatest amphibious operation in history ended on D Day, Tune 6, 104...
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...
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.
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Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]
by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
IN MY JOURNEY through the wilderness of this world there came a time when I found myself caged up in a very dreary dunge...
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (2 volumes in 1)
by Ulysses S. Grant
MY FAMILY is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
by Olaudah Equiano
I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the on...