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Step into the lives behind the legends—statesmen, rebels, poets, queens, and visionaries whose choices shaped history and stirred the world. From royal courts to battlefields, from scientific discovery to social revolution, this bookshelf opens a vivid parade of ambition, devotion, genius, and scandal. Every biography is a doorway into a larger-than-life story, where the person is as unforgettable as the age they lived in.
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Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria
by Clara Tschudi
George Washington, Volume I
by Henry Cabot Lodge
Life of St. Francis of Assisi
by Paul Sabatier
John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, volume 1 (of 3) : An autobiography edited by his brother
by John Gibson Paton
Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag
by S. O. Susag
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1
by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith Jr.
Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy
by Patrick MacGill
Autobiography of an Androgyne
by Ralph Werther
Ravished Armenia The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Lived Through the Great Massacres
by Aurora Mardiganian
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.
by E. N. (Eldred Nathaniel) Woodcock
On the edge of the primeval forest : Experiences and observations of a doctor in Equatorial Africa
by Albert Schweitzer
Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives
by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones
My fight for Irish freedom
by Dan Breen
Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave
by Henry Watson
Life of George Washington, volume 1 of 5
by Washington Irving
In Brightest Africa
by Carl Ethan Akeley
Yashka : My life as peasant, exile and soldier
by Mariia Bochkareva, Isaac Don Levine
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Cicero
by W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
by Richard Taylor
Through the mill: The life of a mill-boy
by Frederic Kenyon Brown
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1
by Ian Hamilton
In the Days of Queen Victoria
by Eva March Tappan
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813
by Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne
Vie de Henri Brulard, tome 1
by Stendhal
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. I)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
by George H. Devol
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted from His Letters and Diaries, with Reminiscences of His Conversation by His Friend Christopher Carr of the Same College
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut
by James Mars
Thirteen years at the Russian court (a personal record of the last years and death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his family)
by Pierre Gilliard
Under the guns : A woman's reminiscences of the Civil War
by Annie Wittenmyer
A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
by Nancy Prince
Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895
by Freiherr von Rudolf Carl Slatin
The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion
by Allan Pinkerton
The Boy Life of Napoleon, Afterwards Emperor of the French
by Eugénie Foa
Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman
by William Elliot Griffis
Anecdotes and memoirs of William Boen, a coloured man, who lived and died near Mount Holly, New Jersey
by Anonymous
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand, Volume 1
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
by Ian Hamilton
Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865
by Hector Berlioz
The Women of Mormondom
by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge
Thackeray
by Anthony Trollope
From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
by James Longstreet
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10
by Thomas Carlyle
The Life of Flavius Josephus
by Flavius Josephus
Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter
by Theodore Roosevelt
Moral social : apreciación de Hostos
by Eugenio María de Hostos
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century
by Marian Gouverneur
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
by Samuel de Champlain
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. II)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer
by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
by Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer
The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army
by Augustus Meyers
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Lydia Knight's History The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives
by Susa Young Gates
The Son of a Servant
by August Strindberg
Life of Heber C. Kimball, an apostle : the father and founder of the British mission
by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney
Florence Nightingale: A Biography
by Annie Matheson
Friedrich Nietzsche
by Georg Brandes
Seventy years on the frontier
by Alexander Majors
Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Lady Hester Stanhope
A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War
by Letitia M. Burwell
Marie Antoinette
by Hilaire Belloc
Seul, à travers l'Atlantique
by Alain Gerbault
The Trembling of the Veil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871
by Truman Everts
Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown
by James S. (James Stephens) Brown
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
by Samuel Johnson
Lives of the English Poets Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.
by Samuel Johnson
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 (of 10)
by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
The Rebirth of Turkey
by Clair Price
Dumas' Paris
by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
President Heber C. Kimball's Journal Seventh Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
by Heber C. (Heber Chase) Kimball
Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism
by Gilbert Chinard
Life, letters, and Epicurean philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the celebrated beauty of the seventeenth century
by Ninon de Lenclos
The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself
by Dorothy Richardson
Presidential Problems
by Grover Cleveland
Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847
by John R. Young
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
by John H. (John Henry) Haaren, Addison B. Poland
Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall
by Robert Stephen Hawker
The Reign of Andrew Jackson: A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics
by Frederic Austin Ogg
A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry
by Julian Wisner Hinkley
Fridtjof Nansen: A Book for the Young
by Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
by John Forster
Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795
by William L. (William Leete) Stone
History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother
by Lucy Smith
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography.
by Solomon Maimon
A Slave Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.
by Kate Drumgoold
An island hell: A Soviet prison in the far north
by S. A. (Sozerko Artaganovich) Malʹsagov
From Immigrant to Inventor
by Michael Pupin
Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor
by Caroline Bancroft
Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story
by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson