Biography Books
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F Chopin
[french | 1890]Franz Liszt
Summary: [Clementi. Sonata in F sharp minor op. 26 no. 2.--Mozart. Sonata no. 11 in A major K. 331.--Beethoven. Sonata 23 in F minor op. 57 (Appassionata). Chopin. Ballade no. 1 in G minor op. 23 Waltz no. 4 in F major op. 34 no. 3.--Schumann. Fantasiestuke no. 1 Des abends no. 7 Traumeswirren. Liszt. La campanella from 6 grandes etudes de Paganini.--Ravel. Jeux dea]
Genres: [biography | music] Downloads: 277
Life Of Chopin
[english | 1863]Franz Liszt
Summary: [Life Of Chopin by Franz Liszt. Life of Chopin is a biography of Chopin by Franz Liszt. Fr ed eric Chopin 1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849 was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the world s great composers for piano. Chopin was born in the village of Zelazowa Wola in the Duchy of Warsaw to a French-expatriate father and a Polish mother and ...]
Genres: [biography | music] Downloads: 307
The Reign Of Andrew Jackson
[english | ]Frederic Austin Ogg
Summary: [The Reign Of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg. THIS IS A REPRINT NOT THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION. TEXT ONLY. At the age of forty-five Jackson had not yet found himself. He was known in his own State as a successful planter a breeder and racer of horses a swearer of mighty oaths a faithful ami generous man to his friends a chivalrous man to women a hospitable man at his home a desperate and ...]
Genres: [history | biography | politics] Downloads: 189
Five Months On A German Raider
[english | 1919]Frederic George Trayes
Excerpts: [... everything was all right and there was nothing to fear. Even the Japanese commander of the gun crew betrayed no anxiety on the matter, ...... and the German sailors busied themselves bringing tea and cigarettes to their latest captives. We were then left to ourselves for a short time on deck, ...... If the Hitachi had manoeuvred at all, it was simply so that she should not[1] ...]
Genres: [biography | war | nautical] Downloads: 294
Amerigo Vespucci
[english | 1907]Frederick Ober
Excerpts: [... VOYAGE 101. VIII. WITH OJEDA THE FIGHTER 126. IX. CANNIBALS, GIANTS, AND PEARLS 138. X. FAMOUS FELLOW-VOYAGERS 148. XI. ON THE COAST OF BRAZIL ...... you another letter which, some days since, I wrote to a friend of mine, a servant of the King of Portugal before the wars of Castile, in answer to another ...... quarter of the century in which the first-named of this distinguished ...]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 98
The Life Story Of A Christian Minister
[english | 1890]Frederick Bennett
Summary: [Havent read the book. However Mr. Homers review of this book seems to contain some false information. I am unable to verify any of it so far...]
Genres: [biography | religion] Downloads: 342
On The Trail Of Grant And Lee
[english | ]Frederick Trevor Hill
Summary: [On The Trail by Adelia B Beard. The joyous exhilarating call of the wilderness and the forest camp is surely and steadily penetrating through the barriers of brick stone and concrete through the more or less artificial life of town and city and the American girl is listening eagerly. It is awakening in her longings for free wholesome and adventurous outdoor life for the innocent delights of ...]
Genres: [war | history | biography] Downloads: 374
My Service In The U S Colored Cavalry
[english | 1908]Frederick Browne
Excerpts: [... He looked it over and said in a home-sick way, I would give $800 for that paper. I reported to Colonel Garrard, and for the first time saw this ...... board transports at Yorktown and sent up the James to City Point and Bermuda Hundred. The next day we went up the Peninsula, passing 6 and 12 Mile ...... approached Drewry's Bluff we were fired on by both infantry and artillery and ...]
Genres: [history | african american studies | biography] Downloads: 83
Autobiography Of Friedrich Froebel
[english | 1889]Friedrich Froebel
Summary: [v. 1. The autobiography etc. translated by John Oxenford. 13 books.--v. 2. The autobiography etc. The concluding books. Also Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy tr. by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison.]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 315
Four Weeks In The Trenches
[english | ]Fritz Kreisler
Summary: [Four Weeks In The Trenches by Fritz Kreisler. Four Weeks in the Trenches recounts the experiences of one of the greatest violinists of all time when he fought in World War I as an Austrian soldier. Fritz Kreisler briefly served in the Austrian Army in World War I before being honorably discharged after he was wounded. He spent the remaining years of the war in America. He returned to Europe in ...]
Genres: [war | biography | audiobook] Downloads: 70
Lord Kitchener
[english | 1917]G Chesterton
Summary: [First edition according to Sullivan cited below.]
Genres: [biography | audiobook] Downloads: 390
Niels Henrik Abel
[french | ]G Mittag Leffler
Excerpts: [... ce qu'il y a de plus eleve et de plus profond dans la mathematique. Comme tant d'autres parmi les hommes les plus remarquables du nord scandinave, ...... pere d'Abel dans sa paroisse, fit graver sur la croix de sa tombe: Arrete-toi ici, voyageur, que cette tombe te rappelle Que parfois le ...... etait de la plus grande importance qu'il entrat de bonne heure en rapport avec les ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 85
Beethoven
[english | 1905]George Alexander Fischer
Summary: [La gioconda. Act III: Dance of the hours / Ponchielli (NBC Symphony Orchestra Arturo Toscanini conductor) (9:32) -- Rigoletto. Act IV: La donna e? mobile / Verdi (Enrico Caruso tenor) (2:10) -- Die Walkure. Act II: Ho-yo-to-ho! / Wagner (Kirsten Flagstad soprano) (2:00) -- Sonata in C-sharp minor op. 27 no. 2 : (Moonlight). First movement / Beethoven (Vladimir Horowitz piano) (7:08) -- Do]
Genres: [music | biography | non fiction] Downloads: 327
The Life Crime And Capture Of John Wilkes Booth
[english | ]George Alfred Townsend
Summary: [Havent read the book. However Mr. Homers review of this book seems to contain some false information. I am unable to verify any of it so far...]
Genres: [biography | history] Downloads: 416
The Exploits And Triumphs In Europe Of Paul Morphy
[english | 1859]Frederick Milnes Edge
Excerpts: [... to rank with the finest master-pieces of chess strategy. Benignant fate brought the young hero safely to New York, some two days before the assembling ...... become personally acquainted with one whom we have so long admired, than by the very natural anxiety to ascertain the strength of our American players ...... that Mr. Walker means skittles, finally awaked to consciousness, and,...]
Genres: [games | biography] Downloads: 414
Charles Dickens
[english | 1906]G Chesterton
Excerpts: [... The Dickens Period.CHAPTER I. THE DICKENS PERIOD. Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that ...... last movements in literary criticism has done him any good. He has suffered alike from his enemies, and from the enemies of his enemies. The facts to ...... has disappointed you, do not think of it as a burst bubble, but at least as a ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 206
Memoirs Of General Lafayette
[english | 1824]General Lafayette
Summary: [LC copy has inscription: Elizabeth Hazard from E.H. 1868.]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 199
Letters Of Lt Col George Brenton Laurie
[english | 1921]George Brenton Laurie
Summary: [Letters Of Lt Col George Brenton Laurie by George Brenton Laurie. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie by George Brenton Laurie]
Genres: [correspondence | war | biography] Downloads: 471
Red Eagle And The Wars With The Creek Indians Of Alabama
[english | 1878]George Cary Eggleston
Excerpts: [... and to remain in that neighborhood until he should be joined by Jackson's army and the Georgia troops, who were now advancing under command of General ...... really wants to do so, and in this case Claiborne very earnestly wished to find and to fight Weatherford. Accordingly he prepared to march. He was ...... were much better scholars. The chief function of education is to train ...]
Genres: [biography | history] Downloads: 117
The Incomparable 29th And The River Clyde
[english | 1919]George Davidson
Excerpts: [... IN WARM ADMIRATION OF THEIR CONSTANT ZEAL AND PLUCK AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MANY EXCITING TIMES WE HAD TOGETHER. PREFACE. I had not the slightest ...... blue of the Mediterranean has been left behind for a time, which may be very short, and certainly cannot be long, and we now float on the light green ...... taken us an hour to row about half a mile. Orders have come to us to-day ...]
Genres: [war | history | biography] Downloads: 289