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Retrospection and Introspection
Mary Baker Eddy
A personal awakening to spiritual law becomes the foundation for an entire religious movement.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVII, Virginia Narratives
United States. Work Projects Administration
Eyewitness testimony from elderly Virginians captures the brutal reality, unexpected moments of levity, and profound grief of American slavery and its turbulent aftermath.
Under the Red Crescent: Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878
Charles S. (Charles Snodgrass) Ryan
Caught between raw surgical horror and high-society flair, a young Australian doctor finds himself swept into the brutal bloodbaths of the Russo-Turkish War.
Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men
Mary Agnes Hamilton
Ancient Rome survived external enemies through raw endurance, but its internal democracy dissolved under the weight of personal ambition, military genius, and class division.
History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother
Lucy Smith
A mother records the extraordinary spiritual rise, relentless persecutions, and violent murder of her sons in early nineteenth-century America.
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
Elgin, James Bruce, Earl of
A veteran administrator spends two decades steering the British Empire through volatile crises across the globe, leaving behind a personal record of quiet resolve, strategic diplomacy, and statecraft.
Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era
L. (Luise) Mühlbach
A childhood forged in the shadow of the guillotine gives way to a glittering, tragic crown for a woman destined to stand at the heart of Napoleonic Europe.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A wandering young idealist flees every steady path laid out for him, driven by an unquenchable inner life and an uncanny talent for self-sabotage.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Candide Chalippe
A devotion so radical it transforms an ordinary man into an iconic vessel of absolute poverty, mystical visions, and complete self-renunciation.