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Biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphein meaning "write") is a genre of literature and other forms of media like film, based on the written accounts of individual lives. While a biography may focus on a subject of fiction or non-fiction, the term is usually in reference to non-fiction. As opposed to a profile or curriculum vitae, a biography develops a complex analysis of personality, highlighting different aspects of it and including intimate details of experiences. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts like birth, education, work, relationships and death. It also delves into the emotions of experiencing such events.

  • Andrew Marvell. Autor: Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933.
  • Bacon. Autor: Church, R. W. (Richard William), 1815-1890.
  • Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells. Autor: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
  • Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake. Autor: Tuckwell, William, 1829-1919.
  • Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) - Essay 1: Robespierre. Autor: Morley, John, 1838-1923.
  • Eminent Victorians. Autor: Strachey, Giles Lytton, 1880-1932.
  • Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1. Autor: Thompson, Slason, 1849-1935.
  • Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2. Autor: Thompson, Slason, 1849-1935.
  • Famous Affinities of History — Complete. Autor: Orr, Lyndon.
  • Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1. Autor: Orr, Lyndon.
  • Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2. Autor: Orr, Lyndon.
  • Famous Affinities of History — Volume 3. Autor: Orr, Lyndon.
  • Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4. Autor: Orr, Lyndon.
  • Famous Men of the Middle Ages. Autor: Poland, Addison B. and Haaren, John H. (John Henry), 1855-1916.
  • Frederick Douglass - A Biography. Autor: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.
  • George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends. Autor: Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.
  • George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians. Autor: Wood, T. Martin.
  • John Jacob Astor. Autor: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.
  • Kepler. Autor: Bryant, Walter W. (Walter William).
  • Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters. Autor: Steedman, Amy.
  • Life and Letters of Robert Browning. Autor: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 and Orr, Sutherland, Mrs., 1828-1903.
  • Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe. Autor: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
  • Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors. Autor: Iles, George, 1852-1942.
  • Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself. Autor: Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de, 1786-1864.
  • Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry; with intimate details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Autor: Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de, 1786-1864.
  • Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I. Autor: Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron, 1779-1835.
  • Milton. Autor: Pattison, Mark, 1813-1884.
  • Milton. Autor: Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir, 1861-1922.
  • Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. - With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.. Autor: Beazley, C. Raymond, 1868-1955.
  • Queen Victoria. Autor: Browne, E. Gordon.
  • Queen Victoria. Autor: Strachey, Giles Lytton, 1880-1932.
  • Real Soldiers of Fortune. Autor: Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.
  • Reminiscences of Tolstoy. Autor: Tolstoi, Ilia Lvovich, Graf, 1866-1933.
  • Representative Men. Autor: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial. Autor: Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1837-1905.
  • Saint Augustin. Autor: Bertrand, Louis, 1866-1941.
  • Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story. Autor: Abbott, L. A., 1813-.
  • Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian. Autor: Lutz, Alma.
  • The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal - Recollections By Those Who Knew Him. Autor: Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913.
  • The Life of Froude. Autor: Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield), 1853-1935.
  • The Life of Me; an autobiography. Autor: Johnson, Clarence Edgar, 1906-1994.
  • The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859. Autor: Morley, John, 1838-1923.
  • The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I.. Autor: Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.
  • The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II. Autor: Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.
  • The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume III. Autor: Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.
  • The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume IV. Autor: Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.
  • The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V.. Autor: Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.
  • The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor. Autor: Unknown.
  • Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. Autor: .
  • William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist. Autor: Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930.