Topic · Society · 14 books
Biographies and Memoirs
Lives and memoirs, from Augustine's Confessions to the slave narratives.
Selected Lives of Plutarch
Plutarch · 100 AD — four Parallel Lives: Publicola, Eumenes, Demosthenes, and Aristides the Just.
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Life of Anthony
Athanasius of Alexandria · 360 AD — the biography that launched Christian monasticism.
The Life of King Alfred
Asser · 893 AD — Alfred's wars, schooling, and rule as told by the monk who knew him.
Of Plymouth Plantation
William Bradford · 1651 AD — Bradford's own governor's chronicle of the Pilgrims from persecution to New England.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan · 1666 AD — Bunyan's spiritual autobiography of conversion, doubt, and despair before finding peace in Christ.
Magnalia Christi Americana
Cotton Mather · 1702 AD — the history of New England's churches and the people who built them, in seven books.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 1789 AD — a printer's rise to Founding Father, including the pursuit of thirteen virtues.
The Interesting Narrative
Olaudah Equiano · 1789 AD — his life from enslavement in West Africa to freedom.
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
James E. Seaver · 1824 AD — the true story of a woman captured by Seneca raiders who chose to remain among them.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass · 1845 AD — his escape from slavery and the making of an abolitionist.
The Life and Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson
Robert Lewis Dabney · 1866 AD — Jackson's life and Civil War campaigns by his own chief of staff.
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Frank P. Bachman · 1918 AD — twelve stories of great inventions told through the lives of Watt, Fulton, Whitney, Morse, and Bell.
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