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6,448 lives & letters

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

The story in one page

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

A bankrupt former president races a cancer diagnosis to recount how a reluctant soldier saved the American Union.

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1.

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2.

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3.

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4.

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5.

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6.

Ulysses S. Grant · biography

Personal Narrative of Events, From 1799 to 1815

William Stanhope Lovell · biography

Personal Recollections

Charlotte Elizabeth · biography

Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864

Lemuel Abijah Abbott · biography

Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River

Milo S. Hascall · biography

Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman

James Harvey Kidd · biography

Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men

Eliezer Edwards · biography

Personal Recollections of Chickamauga

James R. Carnahan · biography

Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals

William Franklin Gore Shanks · biography

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

William Westgarth · biography

Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler

Pardee Butler · biography

Personal Recollections of the Civil War

James Madison Stone · biography

Personal recollections of the war of 1861

Charles A. Fuller · biography

Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville · biography

Personal record of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry

Alfred J. Vaughan · biography

Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories

R. M. Ballantyne · short story

Personal reminiscences of early days in California, with other sketches

Stephen J. Field · biography

Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving

Bram Stoker · play

Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5

W. H. Morgan · biography

Personal Sketches and Tributes

John Greenleaf Whittier · biography

Personal sketches of his own times, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Jonah Sir Barrington · biography

Personal sketches of his own times, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Jonah Sir Barrington · biography

Selwyn Brinton · biography

Joseph McCabe · biography

Rossiter W. Raymond · biography

Peter Parley's Own Story

Samuel G. Goodrich · biography

Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

John S. C. Abbott · biography

Peter the Great

Jacob Abbott · biography

Cecil Headlam · biography

Carl Van Vechten · novel

Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters

Francesco Petrarca · biography

Phases of Faith; Or, Passages from the History of My Creed

Francis William Newman · biography

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Eugénie Hamerton · biography

Philip II. of Spain

Martin A. S. Hume · biography

Philip Massinger

Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank · play

Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone

Silvanus P. Thompson · biography

Philo-Judæus of Alexandria

Norman Bentwich · biography

Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4)

David Hume · biography

Phrenological Development of Robert Burns

George Combe · biography

Pictures of the old French court

Mrs. -1923 Bearne · biography

Marie Curie · biography