Great Biographies: The art of the life-story

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

In this collection

• Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
• Commentaries on the Gallic War
• Reflections
• Benjamin Pantier
• Joseph De Maistre
• Swinburne and Francis Thompson
• Brother Robert
• History of Steam on the Erie Canal
• Samuel J. Tilden
• He Goes Before You
• Mr. W. B. Yeats
• Days to Remember
• Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana
• Optimism of Byron
• To Atlanta University -- its Founders and Teachers
• In the Provinces
• A Political Apostate
• In God's Garden: Saint Cecilia
• All collections