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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
Thomas Jefferson
Through state letters, personal confidences, and administrative directives, a founding statesman navigates the perilous infancy of a new republic, steering it through foreign threats, partisan battles, and unprecedented executive decisions.
The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors
Bence Jones
Built from private papers and institutional records, this documentary narrative uncovers how a pragmatic American loyalist and a brilliant young chemist transformed an eccentric London experiment into a premier seat of scientific discovery.
Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 2 (of 2)
Maurycy Karasowski
A delicate boy leaves Warsaw behind to conquer the concert halls of Europe, transforming personal exile and physical frailty into an immortal, fiery musical legacy.
John Brown
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
A fierce, uncompromising commitment to human freedom intersects with the tragic calculus of armed resistance in this sweeping biographical portrait.
Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck
Jethro Bithell
A living writer’s soul is traced not through gossip, but through the shifting light of his published books, where quiet shadows and sudden awakenings reveal a artist reacting against the strict naturalism of his era.
My Schools and Schoolmasters
Hugh Miller
A working-class stonemason explores the cliffs, quarries, and coastal wilderness of nineteenth-century Scotland, discovering that the true teachers of a human life extend far beyond the walls of any traditional classroom.
Noah Webster: American Men of Letters
Horace Elisha Scudder
Driven by a fierce, stubborn desire to free the new American republic from European intellectual control, a self-made patriot spends decades constructing the linguistic bedrock of a rising nation.