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Roughing It
by Mark TwainRoughing it can be called more appropriately as The Adventures of Mark Twain. This book has unearthed the Voyages writer inside the fictional & Humor novelist Mark Twain. Before settling his career as a novelist, Mark Twain has travelled all around the American Western cities for multifaceted jobs including as reporter, lecturer and gold pro..
The Innocents Abroad
by Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain is a travel book based on the real life travel by the author in chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land. The author states, this travel had helped him deeper understanding of not only the places he visited, also his fellow travelers aboard the cruise. Twain openly writes about his ..
Gene Stratton Porter
by AnonymousAlthough Gene Stratton Porter resided in this city only a few weeks in 1913, her life was closely associated with the Fort Wayne area. Born in rural Wabash County and educated in Wabash, the noted Hoosier author established residence successively in Geneva, Decatur, and Rome City. She was intimately connected with Coldwater, Michigan, and Wincheste..
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Bryce WaltonLives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2): MontaigneRabelaisCorneilleRochefoucauldMolièreLa Fontaine PascalMadame de SévignéBoileauRacineFénélon..
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2) contains the biography of Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël.It is impossible to commence the biography of this extraordinary man without feelings of apprehension as to our power of well executing the task. To write the life of V..
Mrs. Siddons
by Nina H. KennardIn spite of Mrs. Siddons’s professed shrinking from the celebrity that biographers would confer upon her, and her preference for the “still small voice of tender relatives and estimable friends,” we know that she bequeathed her Memoranda, Letters, and Diary to the poet Campbell—an intimate friend during her latter years—with a request that he would..
The Truth About an Author
by Arnold BennettSometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. The work was constant; but the pay was bad, as it too often is where a paper has ideals. I well remember the day when, by dint of amicable menaces, I got the rat..
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
by Upton SinclairAll through my seventy-one years of writing life—I started at thirteen—I have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. When I was halfway through those writing years I accepted the suggestion and wrote a book called American Outpost. The major part of that book, revised and brought up to date, is incorporated in this volume...