Classic Non-Fiction - Biographies and Autobiographies

• Author(s): Marco Polo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMarco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book whic...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIt is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth ce...

• Author(s): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: History“Nothing once begun should be abandoned unless it is proved to be morally wrong.” The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the intimate ...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJames Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a ...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Voyage of the Beagle is the title given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks. It covers ...

• Author(s): Paramahansa Yogananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. First...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. In ...

• Author(s): Carl Von Clausewitz • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOn War is the English translation of the book Vom Kriege, originally written in German. Written at the time of Napoleon’s greatest ca...

• Author(s): Frank Woodworth Pine • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a captivating literary work that offers readers a unique glimpse into the life and mind of...

• Author(s): B.L. Kaul • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: HistoryThe book is in the form of memoirs by the author who is a native of Kashmir but his community was forced to leave their homes and hearths in 1990, due to ...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insig...

• Author(s): Thomas De Quincey • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureConfessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey’s autographical account. In it, he describes his opium and alcohol addiction...