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Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Diary 1920–1922
Summary
A left-wing radical records his experiences in revolutionary Russia.
Written by
Alexander Berkman
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
Summary
The authors escape from slavery by posing as a slaveowner and his slave.
Written by
Ellen Craft
William Craft
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Autobiography · Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
Summary
A philosophical contemplation of youthful adventures spent ingesting large doses of psychoactive cannabis extract.
Written by
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Language
English
Category
Memoir
Source
Standard Ebooks
An Autobiography
Summary
A prominent and caustic historian reflects on the reasons that “the more he was educated, the less he understood,” and what he believes the future holds for American society.
Written by
Henry Adams
Language
English
Category
Autobiography · Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
T. E. Lawrence’s memoir of leading the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I.
Written by
T. E. Lawrence
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Emma Goldman recounts her experiences living in the early Soviet Union.
Written by
Emma Goldman
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of Henry David Thoreau’s essays.
Written by
Henry David Thoreau
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
The self-told story of the black man who accompanied Robert Peary during the first trip to the North Pole.
Written by
Matthew Henson
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
Seven Years Concealed
Summary
The autobiography of a woman who grew up in, and escaped from, slavery.
Written by
Linda Brent
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
The 1879 autobiography of William F. Cody, more commonly known as Buffalo Bill, detailing his early life in the American West.
Written by
William F. Cody
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Mark Twain’s semiautobiographical account of his travel across the United States.
Written by
Mark Twain
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
An Autobiography
Summary
The autobiography of Booker T. Washington, former slave and founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
Written by
Booker T. Washington
Language
English
Category
Autobiography · Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Julius Caesar’s account of the conflicts between Rome and Gaul in the later years of the Roman republic.
Written by
Julius Caesar
Translated by
W. A. McDevitte
W. S. Bohn
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914–1917
Summary
A British expedition sets off to cross Antarctica, but when their ship is wrecked they have to face a long struggle for survival.
Written by
Ernest Shackleton
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
Or, Forty Years’ Recollections
Summary
The world’s greatest showman tells the story of his life.
Written by
P. T. Barnum
Language
English
Category
Autobiography · Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Antarctic 1910–1913
Summary
The travelogue of a member of Robert Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1910.
Written by
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
The account of a free black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, from which it took twelve years to free himself.
Written by
Solomon Northup
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An autobiography of an ex-slave in the mid 1700s.
Written by
Olaudah Equiano
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks1
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