Great Biographies

The classic lives — Boswell’s Johnson, Strachey’s Eminent Victorians — biography as literature in its own right.

The art of the life-story

In this collection

• Michael Angelo
• Joachim Du Bellay
• A History of English Lotteries
• Sir Henry Bessemer
• Days to Remember
• Wellington: "the Pride and the Genius of his Country". Queen Victoria
• My Life in China and America
• Drayton and Daniel
• Henrik Ibsen
• Santa Caterina of Siena
• Proven or not Proven?
• To E. P. B
• A Secret Agent in Port Arthur
• How I Began to Write
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Puvis de Chavannes
• Smart's Poems
• Memoirs of a Revolutionist
• El indio que mató al padre Pro
• A Saint Recanonized
• A Moslem Seeker after God
• Lessons from the Life of Florence Nightingale

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