Imprisoned for three decades. His face never seen. Who was “The Man in the Iron Mask?”In the novel “The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later”, Dumas revealed the man to...

Tucked away in a museum, lies the original notebooks of a teenage Jane Austen. Within the pages can be found the early writings of a girl who would go on to shape the literary...

For those interested in the abolition of slavery and the Slavery Act in America, 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' is an autobiography by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a mother and...

Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery...

'Battles With The Sea' is a short piece of non-fiction prose detailing the lives of the British lifeboats and their sailors in Victorian Britain. With a captivating voice,...

Grant Allen’s “Charles Darwin” is not an ordinary biography. It is a book about the life of one of the most significant and important people of the 19th century. It depicts...

'It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language.' So said Winston Churchill after reading T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'.The book, a mixture of...

Published in 1916, ‘In the World’ is the second volume in Maxim Gorky’s autobiography. Gorky demonstrates how his views and opinions were shaped by his life and what he saw...

Discover the stories of over twenty amazing people who dared to defy society's rules and get inspired to break the mold.Determined, clever, and resourceful, these women have not...

‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison’ is one of Wilde’s most intriguing essays. Part biography, part social commentary, and part philosophical debate, he writes the biography of an art...