Biography

American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to...

While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a...

Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old...

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in...

Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century....

Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable...

Studies on the Text of Suetonius' De uita Caesarum is a companion volume to the...

Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable...

Who made modern Britain? This book, drawn from the award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 55,000 specially written biographies of...

Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of...

The book is an honest and compelling memoir of Ismat Chughtai, one of the most...

James Fitzjames Stephen was a distinguished jurist, a codifier of the law in England and...

On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats...

This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished...

On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in...

Regarded as ancient Greece's greatest orator, Demosthenes lived through and helped shape one of the...

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was one of the youngest of the war poets, enlisting straight from...

'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!'The Book of Margery...

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief text provides insight into the...

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into...

`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble...

Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as...

'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having...

'You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject...

Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon Lytton Strachey's biographical essays...

The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England...

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a...

`I evidently saw that unless the great God of his infinite grace and bounty, had...

`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I...

'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and,...

`My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging...

'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and...

'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells...

'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal...

Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends...

The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many...

'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till...

'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles...

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General,...

This is the first biographical study of John Fielden, industrial magnate and radical MP for...

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of...

The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's Diaries cover the years of his extraordinary second...

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of...

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of...