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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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Serge Prokofieff and his orchestral music
by Louis Biancolli
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 6)
by François Guizot
British Political Leaders
by Justin McCarthy
The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe
by William Wood
Historia Calamitatum
by Peter Abelard
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid
Introduction to the Compleat Angler
by Andrew Lang
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 555, Supplementary Number
by Various Authors
Holbein
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Attack: An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916
by Edward G. D. (Edward George Downing) Liveing
In quest of the perfect book : Reminiscences & reflections of a bookman
by William Dana Orcutt
Camp, Court and Siege A Narrative of Personal Adventure and Observation During Two Wars: 1861-1865; 1870-1871
by Wickham Hoffman
Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia
by Violetta Thurstan
Rescuing the Czar: Two authentic diaries arranged and translated
by James P. Smythe
Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même - Tome 2 suivie de ses œuvres morales, politiques et littéraires
by Benjamin Franklin
Luiz de Camões: notas biograficas Prefacio da setima edição do Camões de Garrett
by Camilo Castelo Branco
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827)
by Various Authors
Writers of Knickerbocker New York
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States
by Charles Godfrey Leland
An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va.
by W. H. (William Henry) Newlin
"Monsieur Henri": A Foot-Note to French History
by Louise Imogen Guiney
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 01
by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 30: August/September 1664
by Samuel Pepys
Niels Henrik Abel
by Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 23: July/August 1663
by Samuel Pepys
Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade
by Lot D. Young
Letters to his wife Mary Borrow
by George Borrow
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 50: February 1666-67
by Samuel Pepys
Herinneringen van Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs
by Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette) Jacobs
A Concise Biographical Sketch of William Penn
by Charles Evans
Kirkkoisä Augustinuksen Tunnustukset
by Saint of Hippo Augustine
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 28: April/May 1664
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 51: March 1666-67
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666
by Samuel Pepys
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 1
by Madame de Montespan
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
by Samuel Pepys
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
by Mary White Rowlandson
Vie de Jésus
by Ernest Renan
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
The World I Live In
by Helen Keller
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
by Leander Stillwell
The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)
by Leslie Stephen
Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883
by Sir Moses Montefiore, Lady Judith Cohen Montefiore
Autobiography
by John Stuart Mill
Napoleon's Marshals
by R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Journal d'une femme de cinquante ans (1/2)
by marquise de Henriette Lucie Dillon La Tour du Pin Gouvernet
The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume—1895-1899)
by graf Leo Tolstoy
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley) Chamberlain
Robert Browning
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
A Life of Walt Whitman
by Henry Bryan Binns
The Mystery of Francis Bacon
by William T. (William Thomas) Smedley
Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 1 (of 2)
by Maurycy Karasowski
An Autobiography
by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler
Anthony Trollope; His Work, Associates and Literary Originals
by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, a Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc.
by Samuel Gibbs French
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels
by Parley P. (Parley Parker) Pratt
Fools of Fortune; or, Gambling and Gamblers
by John Philip Quinn
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends
by Clement King Shorter
Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
by L. P. (Linus Pierpont) Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 1
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Life of John Keats
by William Michael Rossetti
The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines
by Hezekiah Butterworth
The journal, with other writings of John Woolman
by John Woolman
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852
by Charles Greville
William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist
by Archibald Henry Grimké
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
by Samuel Johnson
![Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638c3e0972dc5c80ef6e4bc/cover.jpg)
Friedrich v. Bodelschwingh: Ein Lebensbild
by Gustav von Bodelschwingh
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 01: Childhood
by Giacomo Casanova
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Fray Luis de León: A Biographical Fragment
by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne
by Sir Stephen King-Hall
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
by Edward William Bok
Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia From Authentic Sources
by Karl von Gebler
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
by Arthur Acheson
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Samuel Johnson
by Leslie Stephen
Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century
by Duke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero
by Giorgio Vasari
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"
by Lewis Melville
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched
by John Frederick Schroeder, Benson John Lossing
The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 3
by Miss (Julia) Pardoe
The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft
by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
by Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth