Published amid controversy in 1793-6, this two-volume biography remains an important portrait of Methodism's founders and early history.[...]
An 1886 biography of an eminent nineteenth-century musician and singing teacher, compiled from his autobiographical notes.[...]
Posthumously published in 1879, this is the autobiography of prolific Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-78).[...]
First published in 1768, this is a dramatic first-hand account of survival following the wreck of HMS Wager in 1741.[...]
While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program [...]
Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel.[...]
John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate. He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards [...]
If Henry James or Edith Wharton had written a novel describing the accomplished and glamorous life and times of John Hay, it would have been thought implausible a novelist s fancy. Nevertheless, John Taliaferro s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing fig[...]