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Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887.
The Foreigner at Home
Some College Memories
Old Morality
A College Magazine
An Old Scotch Gardener
Pastoral
The Manse
Memories of an Islet
Thomas Stevenson
Talk And Talkers: First Paper
Talk And Talkers: Second Paper
The Character of Dogs
"A Penny
...2) Bacon
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and chancellor. The book concludes with Bacon's failure, his overall philosophy, and summaries of his writings. ( Summary by Bill Boerst/LibriVox )
3) Sterne
A biography of, and treatise on the work of, Laurence Sterne. Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting tuberculosis. (Source: Wikipedia)
7) Gibbon
8) Spenser
9) Byron
10) Tono-Bungay
First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book "a very intimate revelation. . . . I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour's confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible,
...12) Milton
In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he got out.
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15) Alfred Tennyson
18) The Path to Rome
19) De Profundis
De Profundis (Latin for “from the depths”) is Oscar Wilde’s reconciliation from a life full of pleasure. In 1891 the author began an intimate relationship with the young aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas, known to his friends as Bosie. This affair led to speculations about Wilde’s sexuality just as his career was...
20) John Barleycorn
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