Genre: Biography (19 books)
The best classic books from the Biography genre.
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, "We met because of a beheading, of all things."
Goodbye to All That
As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories.
Testament of Youth
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.
The Education of Henry Adams
Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon Place, February 16, 1838, a child was born, and christened later by his uncle, the minister of the First Church after the tenets of Boston Unitarianism, as Henry Brooks Adams.
Eminent Victorians
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
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