PDF Books in Personal Memoirs
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave
by Isaac MasonLife of Isaac Mason as a Slave is the personal memoir of Isaac Mason narrating his painful days as slave. Like many autobiographies on slavery, this memoir also heart touching and let us visualize the dark days of human life due to slavery. Excerpts:In Kent County, in the northern part of the State of Maryland, there was at the time of my ear..
The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment
by Chilian ConvictsThe preface to a book is very often nothing more than a respectable cloak, allowed by the conventionalities of literature, in which an author may wrap his excuses and apologies for troubling the public with his lucubrations. This dressing up of excuses in order to introduce them into notice under another name, is a thing so tempting to poor human n..
Kelly of the Foreign Legion
by Russell A. KellyThe first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters. The last ..
Jane Eyre - An Autobiography
by Charlotte BronteJane Eyre: An Autobiography is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell". The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the ..
Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empir
by Arthur Conan DoyleI dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart. None the less I took it out of my pocket, and, sitting on the side of the lugger, I went over it again with as much attention as if it were for the first time. It was written in a prim, angular hand, such as one might expect from a man who h..
Italian Hours
by Henry JamesItalian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole. He also added two new essays and an introduction.Italian Hours end..
A Small Boy and Others
by Henry JamesA Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe. This memoir tells of a precocious boy who loved the sights and sounds of his childhood but felt reticent about full parti..
Notes of a Son and Brother
by Henry JamesNotes of a Son and Brother is an autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis. In this second installment of his autobiography Ja..