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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.

by John Gibson Paton

by S. O. Susag

by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jr. Joseph Smith

by Patrick MacGill

by Ralph Werther

by Aurora Mardiganian

by E. N. (Eldred Nathaniel) Woodcock

by Albert Schweitzer

by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

by Dan Breen

by Henry Watson

by Carl Ethan Akeley

by Mariia Bochkareva, Isaac Don Levine

by W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins

by Richard Taylor

by Frederic Kenyon Brown

by Henry Cabot Lodge

by Eva March Tappan

by Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne

by Washington Irving

by Arthur Christopher Benson

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by George H. Devol

by Stendhal

by Pierre Gilliard

by James Mars

by Annie Wittenmyer

by Nancy Prince

by Eugénie Foa

by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

by William Elliot Griffis

by Anonymous

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

by Ian Hamilton

by Allan Pinkerton

by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

by Hector Berlioz

by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

by Anthony Trollope

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Eugenio María de Hostos

by James Longstreet

by Freiherr von Rudolf Carl Slatin

by Flavius Josephus

by Samuel de Champlain

by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by Augustus Meyers

by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure

by Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer

by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Thomas Carlyle

by Marian Gouverneur

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by Annie Matheson

by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

by August Strindberg

by Ian Hamilton

by Lady Hester Stanhope

by Susa Young Gates

by Letitia M. Burwell

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by Hilaire Belloc

by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

by Alexander Majors

by Truman Everts

by Alain Gerbault

by Clair Price

by James S. (James Stephens) Brown

by Samuel Johnson

by Heber C. (Heber Chase) Kimball

by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

by Dorothy Richardson

by Samuel Johnson

by John R. Young

by John H. (John Henry) Haaren, Addison B. Poland

by Robert Stephen Hawker

by Grover Cleveland

by Julian Wisner Hinkley

by Gilbert Chinard

by Ninon de Lenclos

by Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull

by William L. (William Leete) Stone

by Lucy Smith

by Frederic Austin Ogg

by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

by Solomon Maimon

by John Forster

by Kate Drumgoold

by S. A. (Sozerko Artaganovich) Malʹsagov

by Michael Pupin

by Caroline Bancroft

by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

by Max Rothschild

by Jr. (John William) John W. Thomason

by Elizabeth Whitney Williams