Biography & autobiography

Public Domain / Most Favorites

icon Subscribe to feed

Browse

Most Popular

New Releases

 

Category

Delete Biography & autobiography

 

In category

Science & Technology (13)

Personal Memoirs (2)

Diary (1)

Religious (1)

Literary (1)

Adventurers & Explorers (1)

 

Language

English

French

German

Spanish

Italian

More options

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American...

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

Horror

Short Stories

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher...

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been...

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

Humor

Travel

The Road

by Jack London

Tales of London's days as a hobo.

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Travel

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

by John Henry Newman

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Latin: A defence of one's life) is the classic defence of the religious opinions of John Henry Newman, published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on himself,...

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Religion

Free As In Freedom

by Sam Williams

"Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software" is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It is a biography of Richard Stallman, an American software freedom activist...

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

by Olaudah Equiano

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Biographical Stories

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

The Golden Age

by Kenneth Grahame

Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a...

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

Fantasy

Juvenile & Young...

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented...

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

Historical

The Makers of Canada: George Brown

by John Lewis

George Brown (November 29, 1818 – March 9, 1880) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician Fathers of Confederation. A noted Reform politician, he was also the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe,...

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

History

Social science

Samuel Johnson

by Leslie Stephens

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Reed Anthony, Cowman

by Andy Adams

From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

Westerns

Childhood

by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Cross Creek

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Fiction

The American in Paris - Vol. I

by John Sanderson

(Two volumes.) Sketches of Paris and French people : In Familiar Letters to His Friends. An account of the teacher and writer's experiences and perceptions of France, where he had traveled for health reasons...

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives...

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

The Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involved - on...

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

History

History by country

The Education of Henry Adams

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1919

by Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also...

Free

Download

Non-Fiction

Biography & auto...

Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton

by Robert Stawell Ball

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian who has been considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist...

Free

Download

Biography & auto...

Science & Techno...

Science and Tech...