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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.
6153 Audiobooks
Confessions of a Tradesman
by Frank Thomas Bullen
The Making of an Apostle
by R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
Vie de Franklin
by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet
George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903
by Thomas Seccombe
Nuoruuteni muistelmia
by Arvid Järnefelt
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
by Olaudah Equiano
Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
灵历集光
by Shangjie Song
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi
by Giorgio Vasari
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4)
by Plutarch
Friedrich Nietzsche
by Georg Brandes
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
by Jasper Danckaerts
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
by Maisie Ward
Optimism: An Essay
by Helen Keller
Wagner as Man & Artist
by Ernest Newman
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
by Charles Darwin
The Life of Cesare Borgia
by Rafael Sabatini
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
by David Hume
True Stories of History and Biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes
by Jane Addams
Luther, vol. 2 of 6
by Hartmann Grisar
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 70: December 1668
by Samuel Pepys
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
by James Wycliffe Headlam
The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion
by Frederick Milnes Edge
Michelangelo
by Romain Rolland
An Artilleryman's Diary
by Jenkins Lloyd Jones
Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work
by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
Agesilaus
by Xenophon
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863
by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox
Harriet, the Moses of Her People
by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford
Musical Memories
by Camille Saint-Saëns
The Poet Li Po, A.D. 701-762
by Arthur Waley, Bai Li
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 3 (of 3) 1890-1898
by John Morley
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore.
by Friedrich Fröbel
A Story of the Red Cross; Glimpses of Field Work
by Clara Barton
Letters to His Friends
by Forbes Robinson
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Histoire de ma Vie, Livre 1 (Vol. 1 - 4)
by George Sand
Henry Hudson: A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements
by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
William of Germany
by Stanley Shaw
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes
by Abraham Tomlinson
Historic Boyhoods
by Rupert Sargent Holland
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow
The Story of My Life and Work
by Booker T. Washington
Anna Seward, and Classic Lichfield
by Stapleton Martin
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II.
by Theophilus Cibber
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
by Austin Steward
Three Years in the Federal Cavalry
by Willard W. Glazier
Sido; suivi de Les vrilles de la vigne
by Colette
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
by Joseph Cottle
Journal de Jean Héroard - Tome 2 Sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Louis XIII (1610-1628)
by Jean Héroard
On the Fringe of the Great Fight
by George Gallie Nasmith
The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852
by Charles Greville
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
by Samuel Johnson
When We Were Strolling Players in the East
by Louise Jordan Miln
Daniel Webster
by Henry Cabot Lodge
The Truth About an Author
by Arnold Bennett
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty
The Life and Labors of Elias Hicks
by Henry Watson Wilbur
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
by William Makepeace Thayer
Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician
by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion
by Walt Whitman
From Farm Boy to Senator Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster
by Jr. Horatio Alger
Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th.) with anecdotes of his officers and his comrades
by Benjamin Harris
Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (1/3)
by baron de Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin Marbot
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 3
by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.
by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël
Theodore Roosevelt An Address Delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge Before the Congress of the United States
by Henry Cabot Lodge
Αθανάσης Διάκος - Αστραπόγιαννος
by Aristoteles Valaorites
The Sword of Deborah: First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France
by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
A Jewish Chaplain in France
by Lee J. (Lee Joseph) Levinger
History of King Charles the Second of England
by Jacob Abbott
A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by May Byron
La vie d'Ernest Psichari
by Henri Massis
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 8)
by François Guizot
Mozart's Youth
by Franz Hoffmann
Edgar Allan Poe Die Dichtung, Band XLII
by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 6
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 3 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe
by Mme. Du Hausset, princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe
Notes of an Itinerant Policeman
by Josiah Flynt
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 2 (of 3)
by Lady Hester Stanhope
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 31: October/November 1664
by Samuel Pepys
Narrative of Henry Box Brown Who Escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide
by Henry Box Brown
Een jaar in de Molukken De Aarde en haar Volken, 1917
by H. R. Roelfsema
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 291 - Supplement to Vol 10
by Various Authors
Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow, and other correspondents
by George Borrow
Last Verses
by Susan Coolidge
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 69: November 1668
by Samuel Pepys
In Defense of the Flag: A true war story A pen picture of scenes and incidents during the great rebellion.--Thrilling experiences during escape from southern prisons, etc.
by David W. Stafford
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 06
by Louis Constant Wairy
Life Gleanings
by T. J. (Thomas Joseph) Macon
Eventful Narratives The Thirteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
by Robert Aveson, Oliver Boardman Huntington
