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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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Martti Luther: Elämäkerta
by A. (Agathon) Meurman
Jumalan etsijöitä
by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Fifty years in Wall Street
by Henry Clews
The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV
by Charles Greville
Seen and Unseen
by E. Katherine (Emily Katherine) Bates
William the Conqueror Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
by Matthew Alexander Henson
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee
My Life as an Author
by Martin Farquhar Tupper
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2
by Elizabeth Bisland
The Life of John Ruskin
by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
Ole Bull: A Memoir
by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull
Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk
by Sauk chief Black Hawk
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
by George Otto Trevelyan
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765
by James Boswell
Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.
by Benson John Lossing
![The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 [of 3]](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638c15c972dc5c80ef68e1e/cover.jpg)
The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 [of 3]
by Benjamin Franklin
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Life of Beethoven Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works
by Anton Schindler
John Barleycorn
by Jack London
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Complete
by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV
by baron de Etienne-Léon Lamothe-Langon
Life and Letters of Robert Browning
by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, Robert Browning
Life of John Milton
by Richard Garnett
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
by Samuel Johnson
Great Astronomers
by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
Men of Invention and Industry
by Samuel Smiles
Mahan on naval warfare : Selections from the writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Les confessions de saint Augustin, évêque d'Hippone: précédées de sa vie par S. Possidius, évêque de Calame... ; traduction nouvelle par L. Moreau
by Saint of Hippo Augustine, active 370-437 Saint Possidius
Life and public services of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, with the eulogy delivered before the Legislature of New York
by William H. (William Henry) Seward
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
by James Boswell
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer
by Cecil B. Hartley
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement
by Colley Cibber
Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition
by Samuel Smiles
Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith
by Oliver Goldsmith
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10)
by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 25: November/December 1663
by Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
by Burton Jesse Hendrick
Stufen: Eine Entwickelung in Aphorismen und Tagebuch-Notizen
by Christian Morgenstern
Chaucer
by Sir Adolphus William Ward
Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative
by George Wharton James
The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence
by Charles Godfrey Leland
George Washington
by William Roscoe Thayer
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison
by Benjamin Harrison
Saint Augustin
by Louis Bertrand
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (1/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
Charles Lamb: A Memoir
by Barry Cornwall
My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum By a Sane Patient
by Herman Charles Merivale
Matthew Arnold
by George Saintsbury
The lieutenant and commander : being autobiographical sketches of his own career, from Fragments of voyages and travels
by Basil Hall
Recollections of full years
by Helen Herron Taft
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I.
by Theophilus Cibber
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
by John Aubrey
Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood
by John Green Curtis
War in the Garden of Eden
by Kermit Roosevelt
Leaves from a Field Note-Book
by J. H. (John Hartman) Morgan
Mes Origines; Mémoires et Récits de Frédéric Mistral
by Frédéric Mistral
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
by Elbert Hubbard
With the Turks in Palestine
by Alexander Aaronsohn
The Real Tsaritsa
by Lili Den
Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906
by Elizabeth Lee, Lucy Masterman
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3.
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
The Art of Aubrey Beardsley
by Arthur Symons
Mary: The Queen of the House of David and Mother of Jesus The Story of Her Life
by A. Stewart (Alexander Stewart) Walsh
Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850 Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California
by John Woodhouse Audubon
The Emma Gees
by Herbert W. McBride
My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life
by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton
by Daniel Defoe
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
by Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve
Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained
by William Apess
With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia
by John Ward
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 1
by John McElroy
Histoire de ma Vie, Livre 3 (Vol. 10 - 13)
by George Sand
Titian: a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
Woman's Endurance
by A. D. (August D.) Luckhoff
A Soldier's Life: Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle
by Edwin George Rundle
Dealings with the Inquisition; Or, Papal Rome, Her Priests, and Her Jesuits
by Giacinto Achilli
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 2 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Fra Angelico
by James Mason
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 3 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860
by Charles Greville
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (2/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 04: Return to Venice
by Giacomo Casanova
From Plotzk to Boston
by Mary Antin
Journal d'un voyageur pendant la guerre
by George Sand
Victor Hugo à vingt ans: Glanes romantiques
by Pierre Dufay, Victor Hugo
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 06
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Mémoires d'un artiste
by Charles Gounod
Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself
by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Blessed Edmund Campion
by Louise Imogen Guiney
San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906
by James B. (James Burgess) Stetson
