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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 Albert Schweitzer

by E. N. (Eldred Nathaniel) Woodcock

by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

by Dan Breen

by Henry Watson

by Carl Ethan Akeley

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by Mariia Bochkareva, Isaac Don Levine

by W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins

by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

by Richard Taylor

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by Frederic Kenyon Brown

by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases

by Henry Cabot Lodge

by Eva March Tappan

by Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne

by George H. Devol

by Arthur Christopher Benson

by Washington Irving

by James Mars

by Stendhal

by Eugénie Foa

by William Elliot Griffis

by Pierre Gilliard

by Annie Wittenmyer

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

by Nancy Prince

by Anonymous

by Anthony Trollope

by Allan Pinkerton

by Hector Berlioz

by James Longstreet

by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Ian Hamilton

by Flavius Josephus

by Freiherr von Rudolf Carl Slatin

by Samuel de Champlain

by Eugenio María de Hostos

by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure

by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

by Marian Gouverneur

by Augustus Meyers

by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin

by Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

by Thomas Carlyle

by Annie Matheson

by Letitia M. Burwell

by August Strindberg

by Truman Everts

by Lady Hester Stanhope

by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

by Alexander Majors

by Susa Young Gates

by Hilaire Belloc

by Ian Hamilton

by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

by Clair Price

by Alain Gerbault

by Samuel Johnson

by Heber C. (Heber Chase) Kimball

by John R. Young

by Dorothy Richardson

by Grover Cleveland

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

by Robert Stephen Hawker

by Samuel Johnson

by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

by Frederic Austin Ogg

by William L. (William Leete) Stone

by Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull

by Julian Wisner Hinkley

by John Forster

by Gilbert Chinard

by Ninon de Lenclos

by Lucy Smith

by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

by James S. (James Stephens) Brown

by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

by Solomon Maimon

by Kate Drumgoold

by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

by S. A. (Sozerko Artaganovich) Malʹsagov

by Caroline Bancroft

by Michael Pupin

by Max Rothschild

by Jr. (John William) John W. Thomason