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Author Samuel Johnson details the lives of English poets Edmund Waller, John Milton, and Abraham Cowley.

By John Ormsby. English translation of a Spanish language history of Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright, Miguel de Cervantes and his work.

Autobiographical novel by abolitionist, author, and reformer Frederick Douglass. One of America's most prominent figures in African-American and United States history, Douglass' autobiography historically has been used for teaching the concepts of freedom and social development.

Biography of the famous Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy, written by his son, Ilya Tolstoy.

This biography of Robert Louis Stevenson includes letters, commentary, and records of the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer collected by his friend, A.H. Japp.

By Sydney Waterlow. Biography of English Romantic Poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley,(1792-1822), with focus on his rare combination of vision with action.

By Edwin Mims. A biography of American musician and poet, Sidney Lanier, sans a critical study of his work.

In the rich prose writing style that has made the Polish-born Conrad one of the greatest English novelists ever, he provides the reader with a generous sampling of yet another one of his lauded writing style trademarks--his understanding of human struggle, as he details how he came to write after...

By Benjamin Franklin. Although the American Founding Father lived 84 years, (1706-1790), his autobiography covers the first 51 years of his life, (1706-1757), reflecting on his life as a printer; an inventor; a scientist; and politician. Includes an introduction by Charles W. Eliot; a time line...

By Helen Nicolay. Biography detailing the various stages of the life of the 16th President of the United States who guided the nation through its most devastating national experience--the Civil War; and who is considered by many historians to have been the greatest President in U.S. history.