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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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Souvenirs d'une actrice (1/3)
by Louise Fusil
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 474, Supplementary Number
by Various Authors
Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7
by Archibald Henry Grimké
Reynolds
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Corneille expliqué aux enfants
by Émile Faguet
Gaston Darboux: Biographie, Bibliographie analytique des écrits
by Ernest Lebon
Um contemporaneo do Infante D. Henrique
by Alberto Pimentel
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17
by John Lothrop Motley
A History of the Army Experience of William A. Canfield
by William A. Canfield
David Morgan, the Welsh Jacobite a contribution to the history of Jacobitism in Wales
by active 1811-1841 W. (William) Llewellin
Colonel Edward Buncombe, Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment His Life, Military Careeer, and Death While a Wounded Prisoner in Philadelphia During the War of the Revolution
by Marshall De Lancey Haywood
Siipirikko: Ernst Ahlgren kirjailijana ja ihmisenä
by Helmi Krohn
Indtryk og Minder fra Dybbøl
by Carl Vilhelm Behagen Castenschiold
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V
by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins
Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
by David Christie Murray
Ein Mann Des Seefahrers und aufrechten Bürgers Joachim Nettelbeck wundersame Lebensgeschichte von ihm selbst erzählt
by Joachim Nettelbeck
Raleigh
by Edmund Gosse
John Lackland
by Kate Norgate
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
by John Morley
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1
by Ludwig van Beethoven
William Shakespeare
by Victor Hugo
The People of the Abyss
by Jack London
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 04 (of 10) Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
by Giorgio Vasari
Life of Charles Dickens
by Sir Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials
Miss Eden's Letters
by Emily Eden
Letters of a Javanese Princess
by Raden Adjeng Kartini
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index.
by Giorgio Vasari
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons
by Lawrence Beesley
The Truth about the Titanic
by Archibald Gracie
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
by John Addington Symonds
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
by Edward Gibbon
Mémoires de Constant, premier valet de chambre de l'empereur, sur la vie privée de Napoléon, sa famille et sa cour.
by Louis Constant Wairy
The Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family
by William Garden Blaikie
The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women
by Frederic Rowland Marvin
Chopin : the Man and His Music
by James Huneker
Joan of Arc
by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower
Heroes of the Telegraph
by John Munro
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
by James Dabney McCabe
The Early History of the Airplane
by Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
by Charles W. (Charles Wendell) David
The Lives of the Saints, Volume 03 (of 16): March
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Abigail Adams and Her Times
by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
The Autobiography of a Clown
by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
A Personal Record
by Joseph Conrad
Our Friend John Burroughs
by Clara Barrus
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
by William Craft, Ellen Craft
Albert Dürer
by T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge) Moore
Malthus and his work
by James Bonar
The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary
by George Smith
The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy
by Charles Carleton Coffin
The Story of Baden-Powell: 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'
by Harold Begbie
Pitching in a Pinch; or, Baseball from the Inside
by Christy Mathewson
The Red Battle Flyer
by Freiherr von Manfred Richthofen
The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; vol. 3 of 4
by Robert Wilson
Curiosities of Human Nature
by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Ten American Girls from History
by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River, Volume 1 (of 2) Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge
by Hiram Martin Chittenden
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
by Martha Summerhayes
James Otis, the Pre-Revolutionist
by John Clark Ridpath, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam, Charles K. (Charles Keyser) Edmunds
Robert Louis Stevenson
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01
by Thomas Carlyle
Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries
by William Henry Giles Kingston
The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks
Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
by Benjamin Drake
Tobias Smollett
by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou
by Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) Ballou
Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson
Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work
by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside
by Mark Akenside
Over Prairie Trails
by Frederick Philip Grove
Farmer George, Volume 1
by Lewis Melville
The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England
by Carl L. (Carl Lotus) Becker
Ludwig van Beethoven
by Pitts Sanborn
Fra Bartolommeo
by Leader Scott
Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series
by William Black
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23)
by John Lothrop Motley
Van Dyck: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation
by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform
by Albert Bigelow Paine
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 10: under the Leads
by Giacomo Casanova
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Great Britain and Her Queen
by Anne E. Keeling
Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862
by Adam Gurowski
Récits d'une tante (Vol. 4 de 4) Mémoires de la Comtesse de Boigne, née d'Osmond
by comtesse de Louise-Eléonore-Charlotte-Adélaide d'Osmond Boigne
Charles Dickens
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Frederic George Kitton
Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847
by Frederick Douglass
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
by Sarah Tytler
Alfred de Musset
by Arvède Barine
Benjamin Franklin
by Paul Elmer More
Thirty Years in the Itinerancy
by W. G. (Wesson Gage) Miller
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5.
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant