Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters

By Austen-Leigh and Austen-Leigh

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Enter the world of the woman behind the beloved classics. Here, in her own words and in the stories of those who knew her best, Jane Austen comes alive.

Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

By Sarah Knowles Bolton

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Harriet Beecher Stowe. Louisa May Alcott. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. These are some of the inspiring women whose lives Bolton traces in this unique collection of mini-biographies, offering a woman's ...

Boswell's Life of Johnson

By James Boswell

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When it came time to tell the life story of Samuel Johnson, a central figure of British thought and literature, only the most brilliant of biographers would do. Happily, in 1791, James Boswell rose to ...

Memoir of Jane Austen

By James Edward Austen-Leigh

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Written by her nephew, this memoir offers an intimate, familial look at the figure so many readers have come to know, simply and affectionately, as "Jane."

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Essays in Little

By Andrew Lang

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Get a glimpse of Victorian life through these astute essays on the people, literature, and culture that concerned nineteenth century society.

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By Oliver Gilbert

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Sojourner Truth was beaten, imprisoned, and bought and sold like property in a nation that promised freedom. This is the story of how she found the courage to ask a question that would echo through hi ...

Free as in Freedom

By Sam Williams

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The intertwined stories of Richard Stallman and the development of free software that have changed the way we interact with our digital world.