The Life of Goethe
George Henry Lewes
Published 1882
358 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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Memoirs
Ahmed Zeki Velidi Togan
Published 2012
497 pages
Shared Margins
Samuli Schielke, Mukhtar Saad Shehata
Published 2021
272 pages
Sir Titus Salt, baronet
Robert Balgarnie
Published 1877
380 pages
The Life and Words of Christ
Cunningham Geikie
1881 · 1884 edition
616 pages
New dictionary of South African biography (Vol 1)
Published 1995
324 pages
Women in South African history
Nomboniso Gasa
Published 2007
458 pages
Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones
1998 · 2025 edition
The Land of the Pink Pearl; Or, Recollections of Life in the Bahamas
Louis Diston Powles
Published 1888
382 pages
Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863
Wiley Britton
Published 1882
510 pages
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Baron Hallam Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam M. Tennyson
Published 1897
608 pages
Life of Gen. Ben Harrison
Lew Wallace
Published 1888
678 pages
Voyages of Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain
Published 1880
382 pages
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
George Cavendish, Samuel Weller Singer
Published 1852
314 pages
Imago Christi
James Stalker
Published 1897
348 pages
The meaning of Mandela
Xolela Mangcu
Published 2006
40 pages
The copepodologist's cabinet
David M. Damkaer
Published 2002
300 pages
Prolegomena to Ethics
Thomas Hill Green
Published 1884
474 pages
The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, of East Newton, Co. York
Alice Thornton, Charles Jackson
Published 1875
428 pages
French Poets and Novelists
Henry James
Published 1883
356 pages
The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Published 1884
1016 pages
Oliver Cromwell
John Morley
Published 1899
286 pages
The Crisis of the Revolution
William Abbatt
Published 1899
302 pages
Life and Letters of Erasmus
James Anthony Froude
Published 1894
450 pages