Biographies

The Biographies Collection brings together the great life stories of the public domain — memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies of the statesmen, writers, explorers, and reformers who shaped the modern world. From Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Frederick Douglass’s slave narrative to the lives of monarchs, generals, and artists, these are first-hand and definitive accounts of remarkable lives.

Every title is a free EPUB download, cleanly reformatted with a fresh cover and ready to read on any device. Ranked by popularity, these are the biographies and memoirs readers return to most.