Familiar Quotations ...
John Bartlett
1865 · 1875 edition
898 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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Yazoo
Albert Talmon Morgan, University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies, South Caroliniana Society
Published 1884
524 pages
Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe, Written by Himself
John O'Keeffe
Published 1826
448 pages
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
William Smith
Published 1846
1248 pages
Life of Viscount Palmerston
Lloyd Charles Sanders
Published 1888
276 pages
Clement of Alexandria
Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock
Published 1899
294 pages
France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-1868
John Bigelow
Published 1888
272 pages
The Setting of the Crescent and the Rising of the Cross
Henry Harris 1832-1910 Jessup
Published 1898
170 pages
Mary Queen of Scots
David Hay Fleming
Published 1897
570 pages
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Fauvelet De Bourrienne
1885 · 1895 edition
502 pages
The Karen Apostle
Francis Mason
Published 1843
180 pages
The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley
Augustine Jones
Published 1899
552 pages
Stonewall Jackson
John Esten Cooke, J. William Jones, Moses D. 1818-1899 Hoge
Published 1876
620 pages
The Downfall of Prempeh
Robert Baden-Powell
Published 1898
268 pages
The Spiritual Teachings and Biography of Master Krishna Venta With Biography
Jon Fisher
Published 2008
334 pages
Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis
N. Hainf, N. Hanif
Published 2000
402 pages
Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools
Andrew Fleming West
Published 1893
232 pages
Margery Spring Rice
Lucy Pollard
Published 2020
222 pages
James Oglethorpe
Torrey Maloof
Published 2016
32 pages
David Gorlæus (1591-1612)
Christoph Herbert Lüthy
Published 2012
225 pages
"Forget not mee & my garden..."
Peter Collinson
Published 2002
300 pages
History of the portrait collection, Independence National Historical Park
Doris Devine Fanelli
Published 2001
360 pages
Mixed-bloods and tribal dissolution
William E. Unrau
Published 1989
242 pages
Linguistic theory and the biblical text
William A. Ross, Elizabeth Robar
Published 2023
376 pages