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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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Shelley
by Sydney Waterlow
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
by Louis de Rougemont
Sir Walter Scott
by Richard Holt Hutton
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
by Jules Lemaître
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 02
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Souvenirs et anecdotes de l'île d'Elbe
by André Pons de l'Hérault
Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier
by Frank Preston Stearns
Mémoires de Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police Générale Tome II
by duc d'Otrante Joseph Fouché
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand, the Renowned Missouri "Bushwacker" and Unconquerable Rob Roy of America Being his Complete Confession
by Samuel S. Hildebrand
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 06: Paris
by Giacomo Casanova
Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860
by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett
Haydn
by John F. Runciman
Richard Wagner and His Poetical Work, from "Rienzi" to "Parsifal"
by Judith Gautier
Mary Russell Mitford : The tragedy of a blue stocking
by William James Roberts
Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer; Or, A Drummer Boy from Maine
by George T. Ulmer
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
by Mildred Aldrich
Cahangahangang Buhay ni Santa Margarita de Cortona
by Cleto R. Ignacio
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 23: English
by Giacomo Casanova
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 09
by Louis Constant Wairy
Mémoires du comte Reynier ... Campagne d'Égypte, deuxième partie
by Jean-Louis-Ebenézer Reynier, Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 54: June 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
Elämäni muistoja
by Rabindranath Tagore
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)
by Plutarch
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
by J. P. (James Perry) Johnston
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
by Thomas Carlyle
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
by P. T. Ross
The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne
by Jane Austen
Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete
by Albert Bigelow Paine
A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Washington Irving
by Henry Walcott Boynton
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
by Samuel Smiles
Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
by Victor Hugo
George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway
by George Washington, Moncure Daniel Conway
The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
True Version of the Philippine Revolution
by Emilio Aguinaldo
Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher
by Charles Mills Gayley
Henrik Ibsen
by Edmund Gosse
The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 1
by Miss (Julia) Pardoe
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
by John G. (John George) Nicolay, John Hay
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
by Elbert Hubbard
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
by Charles A. Eastman
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
Nathaniel Hawthorne
by George Edward Woodberry
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
In the Foreign Legion
by Erwin Rosen
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Complete
by Count Anthony Hamilton
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)
by Mark Twain
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 5
by United States. Work Projects Administration
A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade
by William Dobein James
Reminiscences, 1819-1899
by Julia Ward Howe
In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2: November 1863-June 1865
by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 1
by Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) Tilden
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
History of Morgan's Cavalry
by Basil Wilson Duke
Confessions of a Book-Lover
by Maurice Francis Egan
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 7
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The works of Alexander Hamilton (vol. 1 of 7) : comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military.
by Alexander Hamilton
History of Julius Caesar
by Jacob Abbott
Old Familiar Faces
by Theodore Watts-Dunton
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Alexander Pope
by Leslie Stephen
Confidences et Révélations: Comment on devient sorcier
by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas
by Henry Kirke White
Ranching, Sport and Travel
by Thomas Carson
Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
by Benjamin Drake
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
by Julia Ward Howe
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
by Ida Pfeiffer
Constable
by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind
Adopting an Abandoned Farm
by Kate Sanborn
My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
by Various Authors
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes
by Daniel Defoe
Lafayette, We Come! The Story of How a Young Frenchman Fought for Liberty in America and How America Now Fights for Liberty in France
by Rupert Sargent Holland
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623)
by John Lothrop Motley
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827
by Various Authors
Life of Luther
by Julius Köstlin
Aan de Zuidpool De Aarde en haar Volken, 1913
by Roald Amundsen
Memoirs of an American Lady With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the Revolution
by Anne MacVicar Grant
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1
by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 1 (of 3)
by Lady Hester Stanhope
Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire Notices biographiques accompagnées de reflexions et de souvenirs personnels
by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes
Le roi Voltaire
by Arsène Houssaye
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 2
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Mémoires de Luther écrits par lui-même, Tome II
by Jules Michelet, Martin Luther
Edward MacDowell, His Work and Ideals
by Elizabeth Fry Page
Journal et fragments : Publiés avec l'assentiment de sa famille par G. S. Trébutien
by Eugénie de Guérin
Thackeray
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Lewis Melville
From Midshipman to Field Marshal
by Evelyn Wood
Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
The Story of John Paul Jones
by Chelsea Curtis Fraser