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• My Life — Volume 1 — Wagner, Richard
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Franklin, Benjamin
• The Confessions of St. Augustine — Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
• Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q — Boase, Frederic
• Life on the Mississippi — Twain, Mark
• Emily Brontë — Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself — Equiano, Olaudah
• Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 — Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
• Harriet Martineau — Miller, Florence Fenwick
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Douglass, Frederick
• Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ — Bernstein, Aaron
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself — Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann)
• Autobiography of a Yogi — Yogananda, Paramahansa
• The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus — Tacitus, Cornelius
• Celebrated Crimes (Complete) — Dumas, Alexandre
• Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 — Darwin, Charles
• The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 : $b A biographical record of all members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who have fallen in the war — Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, marquis de
• Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson — Rowlandson, Mary White
• Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen — Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H — Boase, Frederic
• A Pickle for the Knowing Ones — Dexter, Timothy
• Rizal's own story of his life — Rizal, José
• My Life and Loves, Vol. 1 (of 4) — Harris, Frank
• A Little English Gallery — Guiney, Louise Imogen
• Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete — Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
• Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Godwin, William
• My own story — Pankhurst, Emmeline
• Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10): Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi — Vasari, Giorgio
• Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4) — Plutarch
• The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4) — Dent, John Charles
• Life of St. Francis of Assisi — Sabatier, Paul
• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave — Prince, Mary
• Up from Slavery: An Autobiography — Washington, Booker T.
• Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete — Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete — Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans — Plutarch
• Boswell's Life of Johnson: Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood — Boswell, James
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — De Quincey, Thomas
• My Bondage and My Freedom — Douglass, Frederick
• Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman — Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins)
• Society as I Have Found It — McAllister, Ward
• All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography — Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
• Things near & far — Machen, Arthur
• The story of Nelson — Sellar, Edmund Francis
• Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Thoreau, Henry David
• Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic — Weaver, Raymond M. (Raymond Melbourne)
• Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical — Atherton, William H. (William Henry)
• Cornish Characters and Strange Events — Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
• The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford — Beresford, Charles William De la Poer Beresford, Baron
• France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West — Parkman, Francis
• The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835 — Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah)
• The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete — Forster, John
• Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy; Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern — Talmage, James E. (James Edward)
• A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell — Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
• A Daughter of the Middle Border — Garland, Hamlin
• The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War; which Established the Independence of his Country and First; President of the United States — Marshall, John
• Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions — Newman, John Henry
• Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II — Ross, John, Sir
• The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 — Furniss, Harry
• The Jewish State — Herzl, Theodor

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• Rupa Publications — New Delhi