Buddha
Hermann Oldenberg
Published 1882
482 pages
Free biography books
A biography is the story of a real life, told by someone else. The best are built on letters, interviews and years in the archives, and they show you the person behind the public name. Their subjects are leaders, artists, scientists, athletes and figures history nearly forgot. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway),a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation, a Convert to the Christian Faith, and a Missionary to His People for Twelve Years
George Copway
Published 1847
242 pages
The message
Jaʻfar Subḥānī
Published 1984
783 pages
Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest
Barrett Wendell
Published 1891
348 pages
Playing the waves
Jan Simons
Published 2007
251 pages
The Great Maratha Mahadaji Scindia
N. G Rathod
Published 1994
209 pages
Diary of Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall
Published 1879
486 pages
George Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Published 1889
418 pages
Paul Strand, Ca. 1916
Maria Morris Hambourg
1997 · 1998 edition
166 pages
Recollections of a Happy Life
Marianne North
Published 1894
368 pages
The Life of Benedict Arnold
Isaac N. 1815-1884 Arnold
Published 1880
454 pages
Karl Marx
Otto Rühle
Published 1929
436 pages
From Latin to Spanish. Vol. I, Historical phonology and morphology of the Spanish language
Paul M. Lloyd
Published 1987
439 pages
Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery
Justin Winsor
Published 1891
700 pages
Among the Turks
Cyrus Hamlin
Published 1878
392 pages
Tales of Canyonland Cowboys
Richard Negri
Published 2009
228 pages
Nelson Mandela
Tamara Hollingsworth
Published 2012
48 pages
Three Books of Polydore Vergil's English History
Polydore Vergil
Published 1844
296 pages
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
Robert Browning, James Alexander Manson
1882 · 1889 edition
322 pages
Mahomet and his successors
Washington Irving
1882 · 1885 edition
500 pages
Spinoza
Frederick Pollock
Published 1880
524 pages
Pioneering in Formosa
William Alexander Pickering
Published 1898
368 pages
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams
1874 · 1875 edition
562 pages
My Life and Times
Cyrus Hamlin, Murat Gülsoy
Published 1893
612 pages