Bible excerpts
Homer, Iliad (c. 750
BCE)
Euripides, "Trojan Women"
(415
BCE)
Augustine, Confessions
(400 CE)
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
(1793)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
(1782)
William Wordsworth, "Intimations of Immortality"
(1807)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(1838)
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
(1890)