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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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The Key to Peace
by Anna Marie Miles
Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41
by Unknown
Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher: A Discourse
by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610a
by John Lothrop Motley
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 2
by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite
A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days
by Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Wyckoff
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661
by Samuel Pepys
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1609-10
by John Lothrop Motley
Heräämiseni
by Arvid Järnefelt
Van strak gespannen snaren
by R. J. W. (Roelof Jan Willem) Rudolph
Janeza Trdine zbrani spisi 1: Bahovi huzarji in Iliri Spomini iz moje profesorske sluzbe na Hrvaskem (1853-1867)
by Janez Trdina
Tuliliemen tuttavana: Alkoholimuistelmia
by Jack London
Altes und Neues über Karl Stülpner mit Benutzung der Schönberg'schen Aufzeichnungen
by Hermann Lungwitz
Paul Verlaine: Hänen elämänsä ja runoutensa
by Anna-Maria Tallgren
Uit de ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van het Menschelijk Denken, Deel 2 van 2
by R. (Rommert) Casimir
Harriet Martineau
by Florence Fenwick Miller
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
by Timothy Dexter
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
A Woman who went to Alaska
by May Kellogg Sullivan
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
by George William Erskine Russell
The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief
by Morrison Heady
![Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638be00972dc5c80ef60fc0/cover.jpg)
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
by Clement King Shorter
Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence
by Sigmund Freud
Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865. Vols. 1-2
by Joseph Warren Keifer
The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time
by Edward Everett Hale
The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2
by Sir Edward Tyas Cook
The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton
by Lady Isabel Burton
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
by Rupert Hughes
Facundo
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters
by E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) Brown
The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)
by Florence May
Mark Twain
by Archibald Henderson
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Frank Preston Stearns
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
by Frederick Niecks
The Life of Francis Marion
by William Gilmore Simms
The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 1 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton
by Lady Isabel Burton
Faraday as a Discoverer
by John Tyndall
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
by Abraham Lincoln
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 60: December 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Journal de Jean Héroard - Tome 1 Sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Louis XIII (1601-1610)
by Jean Héroard
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Four Years a Scout and Spy "General Bunker", One of Lieut. General Grant's Most Daring and Successful Scouts, Being a Narrative of ... the Experience of Corporal Ruggles During Four Years' Service as a Scout and Spy for the Federal Army
by E. C. (Edward C.) Downs
Napoléon intime
by Arthur Lévy
Beethoven
by Romain Rolland
Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments
by Louise Imogen Guiney
An ethical philosophy of life presented in its main outlines
by Felix Adler
William the Conqueror
by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman
Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era
by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Our Hundred Days in Europe
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Memories of the Russian Court
by Anna Aleksandrovna Vyrubova
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
by Anna Katharina Emmerich
A daughter of the Samurai
by Etsuko Sugimoto
Sydney Smith
by George William Erskine Russell
Memories of Hawthorne
by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Memorie: Edizione diplomatica dall'autografo definitivo
by Giuseppe Garibaldi
Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
by William Wells Brown
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
by Edward William Bok
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846
by Various Authors
Filippo Lippi
by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody
Memories of My Life Being My Personal, Professional, and Social Recollections as Woman and Artist
by Sarah Bernhardt
Poetical Works
by Charles Churchill
The land of gold; or, Three years in California
by Walter Colton
William Penn
by George Hodges
History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition
by John H. (John Henry) Parker
Essay on Burns
by Thomas Carlyle
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III.
by Theophilus Cibber
Torrey's Narrative; or, The Life and Adventures of William Torrey
by William Torrey
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48: December 1666
by Samuel Pepys
John Jacob Astor
by Elbert Hubbard
A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II
by Earl of Edward Law Ellenborough
D. Joanna de Portugal (A Princesa Santa) Esboço Biographico
by Marques Gomes
James Ensor
by Emile Verhaeren
Getting at the Inner Man, and, Fifty Years on the Lecture Platform
by Robert Shackleton, Russell H. Conwell
Robert Emmet: A Survey of His Rebellion and of His Romance
by Louise Imogen Guiney
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Jacques Casanova
by Giacomo Casanova
Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River
by Milo S. Hascall
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 05
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
John Jasper: The unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher
by William E. (William Eldridge) Hatcher
Walther von der Vogelweide: Ein altdeutscher Dichter
by Ludwig Uhland
The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Katherine Chandler
The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 2
by Ármin Vámbéry
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 05: May 1660
by Samuel Pepys
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617
by John Lothrop Motley
Presiding Ladies of the White House containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs
by Lila G. A. Woolfall
