Books: What to Know
Real Lives, Explained
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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6,448 lives & letters
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Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture
William Henry Ferris · biography
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Alexander Hamilton
Charles A. Conant · biography
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Alexander Pope
Leslie Stephen · biography
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Alexander the Great
Jacob Abbott · biography
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Alexander's Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 1, May 15, 1905)
Charles Alexander · periodical
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
Alfred Russel Wallace · biography
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
Alfred Russel Wallace · biography
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Alfred Tennyson
Andrew Lang · biography
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Alfred the Great
Alfred Bowker · biography
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Alice Cogswell Bemis: A Sketch by a Friend
biography
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Alice, grand duchess of Hesse, princess of Great Britain and Ireland
Grand Duchess consort of Ludwig IV Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt Alice · biography
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All in a Life-time
Henry Morgenthau · biography
The story in one page
All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
A journalist tracks oil barons, Lincoln, and peace activists, realizing history is rarely a straight line.
Ida M. Tarbell · biography
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All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
Amelia E. Barr · novel
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Allan Ramsay
William Henry Oliphant Smeaton · biography
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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Henry Morgenthau · biography
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American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Stratemeyer · biography
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American Horological Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, July 1869: Devoted to Pratical Horology
George B. Miller · periodical
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American ideals, and other essays, social and political
Theodore Roosevelt · biography
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American Indian Stories
Zitkala-Sa · myth
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American Journal of Science, Vol. 1.
Benjamin Silliman · periodical
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American Men of Action
Burton Egbert Stevenson · biography
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American Men of Mind
Burton Egbert Stevenson · biography
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Americans by adoption
Joseph Husband · biography
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Amerigo Vespucci
Frederick A. Ober · biography
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel · biography
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Among the Great Masters of Music
Walter Rowlands · myth
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An Account of Our Arresting Experiences
Conway Evans · biography
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An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
John Niles Hubbard · biography
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An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va.
W. H. Newlin · biography
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An Account of the Ladies of Llangollen
J. Prichard · biography
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An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons and Martyr
James Beaven · biography
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An accurate and authentic journal of the siege of Quebec, 1759
biography
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An Address Delivered at the Interment of Mrs. Harriet Storrs, Consort of Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1834.
John Codman · biography
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An Adventure
C. A. E. Moberly · biography
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An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
Alleyne Ireland · biography
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An American Crusader at Verdun
Philip Sidney Rice · biography
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An American Girl in Munich: Impressions of a Music Student
Mabel W. Daniels · biography
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An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker
Cornelia Stratton Parker · biography
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An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron Burr
Alfred Henry Lewis · biography
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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2)
Colley Cibber · play
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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2)
Colley Cibber · play
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An Artilleryman's Diary
Jenkins Lloyd Jones · biography
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An Astronomer's Wife: The Biography of Angeline Hall
Angelo Hall · biography
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An Autobiography
Elizabeth Butler · biography
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An Autobiography
Catherine Helen Spence · biography
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An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope · novel
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An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
Buffalo Bill · biography