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By: Evans, A. J. (1889-1960)

The Escaping Club by Evans, A. J. The Escaping Club

Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again finds himself captured, this time first by Arabs and then by Turks. He again manages to escape. A detailed look at the trials faced by Allied POWs during World War I.

By: Victor MacClure (1887-1963)

Book cover She Stands Accused

By: John Bursey

Book cover Dumas Commentary

By: George Biddell Airy (1801-1892)

Book cover Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy

By: Peter Hume Brown (1849-1918)

Book cover The Youth of Goethe

By: John Hicklin

Book cover The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"

By: P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson (1841-1922)

Book cover The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester

By: Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928)

Book cover Priestley in America 1794-1804
Book cover James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823

By: Helen Nicolay (1866-1954)

Book cover Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln

The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln is a biography with many anecdotes that takes one deeper into the thoughts, personality, and beliefs of the man that was Lincoln. While the title indicates the book is about Lincoln’s life as a boy, the book is a full, if somewhat shortened biography. It is very well written and was a joy to record. One might ask, "Who was Helen Nicolay?" Her father, John George Nicolay, was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and doubtless much of the material comes from his complete biography of Abraham Lincoln. (

By: Richard Holt Hutton (1826-1897)

Book cover Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)

By: William Henry Seward (1801-1872)

Book cover Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York

By: Joel Benton (1832-1911)

Book cover The Life of Phineas T. Barnum

By: Mary F. (Mary Frances) Sandars (1864-)

Book cover Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

By: Edward Osler (1798-1863)

Book cover The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth

By: J. Q. (James Quay) Howard (1836-1912)

Book cover The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes

By: Rupert S. Holland (1878-1952)

Book cover Historic Boyhoods

Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, either by character or circumstance, to make his mark on the world. In this work are included 21 biographical sketches of boys who became famous in the arts, affairs of state or exploration and discovery. Historical fact is blended with surmise and imagination to bring these boyhoods alive.

By: James Harrison

Book cover The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1

By: Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) Smith (1919-)

Book cover Men Called Him Master

By: George H. Devol (1829-1903)

Book cover Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

By: Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert (1871-1933)

Book cover The Mirrors of Washington

By: Arthur E. Knights

Book cover Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life

By: Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842-1927)

Book cover Recollections of My Childhood and Youth

By: Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid (1848-1927)

Book cover Lord John Russell

By: James J. (James John) Davis (1873-1947)

Book cover The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it

By: William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930)

Book cover His Life A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels

By: Lewis C. (Lewis Conger) Lockwood (1815-1904)

Book cover Mary S. Peake The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe

By: Henry Charles Moore

Book cover Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines

By: Edwin Mims

Book cover A Biography of Sidney Lanier

By: Sydney Waterlow (1878-1944)

Book cover Shelley

By: Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1838-1915)

Book cover James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters

By: Paul Elmer More (1864-1937)

Book cover Benjamin Franklin

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