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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

James Boswell

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

Izumi Shikibu, Murasaki Shikibu, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2

Mrs. Montagu

Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete

Lyndon Orr

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Good-bye to all that

Robert Graves

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

John Keats

Letters of Pliny

the Younger Pliny

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1

Charles Darwin

Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H

Frederic Boase

Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q

Frederic Boase

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters

Charles Darwin

My Recollections of Lord Byron

contessa di Teresa Guiccioli

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 / For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources

Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Society as I Have Found It

Ward McAllister

The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2)

John Evelyn

The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

Samuel Pepys

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The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott / From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Walter Scott

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

W. N. P. Barbellion

The Journal to Stella

Jonathan Swift

The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

Myra Reynolds

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 / The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Letters of Jane Austen / Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne

Jane Austen

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 1 (of 6) / New Complete Library Edition

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