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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
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson
by Eugene Parsons
William Pitt and national revival
by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
A climber in New Zealand
by Malcolm Ross
Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality
by Harold Begbie
The Young Emperor, William II of Germany A Study in Character Development on a Throne
by Harold Frederic
William Blake
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
by William Cowper Brann
Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland
by Thomas M'Crie
Life and Travels of Mungo Park
by Mungo Park
Cleopatra
by Jacob Abbott
James Boswell
by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask
The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; vol. 4 of 4
by Robert Wilson
Frammenti letterari e filosofici
by da Vinci Leonardo
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe
The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton
by William Wood
The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884
by Various Authors
Lucrezia Borgia secondo documenti e carteggi del tempo
by Ferdinand Gregorovius
Ten Girls from History
by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2
by Elizabeth Sarah Kite
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick Written by himself
by Thomas Bewick
Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England
by Sir Lascelles Wraxall
Arnold Böcklin
by Heinrich Alfred Schmid
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872
by George Washington Julian
Robert Browning: How to Know Him
by William Lyon Phelps
An Onlooker in France 1917-1919
by Sir William Orpen
Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
The Iron Furnace; or, Slavery and Secession
by John H. (John Hill) Aughey
Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3
by William Dawson LeSueur
Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. ("The Black Spurgeon") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
by Silas Xavier Floyd
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 6 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France sous Napoléon, Tome 1/2 écrits à Sainte-Hélène par les généraux qui ont partagé sa captivité
by Baron Gaspard Gourgaud
Fragments of voyages and travels, including anecdotes of a naval life : Chiefly for the use of young persons. Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Basil Hall
Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches
by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Mémoires du sergent Bourgogne
by Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne
Round about Bar-le-Duc
by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day
Tennyson
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Richard Garnett
Mémoires de l'Impératrice Catherine II. Écrits par elle-même
by Empress of Russia Catherine II
George Sand
by E. (Elme-Marie) Caro
Phases of Faith; Or, Passages from the History of My Creed
by Francis William Newman
The Story of Scotch
by Enos A. Mills
Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck Being the Experience of Samuel Leech
by Samuel Leech
Kirkcaldy of Grange
by Louis A. Barbé
Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy
by John M. (John Mullin) Batten
The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life
by Frank Thomas Bullen
Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, lady companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Volume 1 (of 2) with extracts from her journals and anecdote books
by Ellis Cornelia Knight
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
by James Richard Joy
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3
by Henry Hunt
The Hero of Manila: Dewey on the Mississippi and the Pacific
by Rossiter Johnson
A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851
by Osmond Tiffany
Making the House a Home
by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest
The Americanism of Washington
by Henry Van Dyke
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 4 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867
by Sara Yorke Stevenson
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663
by Samuel Pepys
The Amateur Army
by Patrick MacGill
Daniel Boone Taming the Wilds
by Katharine Elliott Wilkie
Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Tome second
by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831
by Various Authors
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero
by Giovanni Pascoli
Essay on the Character and Influence of Washington in the Revolution of the United States of America
by François Guizot
The gold seekers of '49 : a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854
by Kimball Webster
Boulogne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
by William Fleming
A Society Clown: Reminiscences
by George Grossmith
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2
by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 2
by George Sand
Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul; religious of La Trappe
by Father Vincent de Paul
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Mis contemporaneos; 1 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
by Eduardo Zamacois
Martha Schofield, pioneer Negro educator Historical and philosophical review of reconstruction period of South Carolina
by Matilda A. Evans
Four Years
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
D. Antonio Alves Martins: bispo de Vizeu: esboço biographico
by Camilo Castelo Branco
Au pays des lys noirs: Souvenirs de jeunesse et d'âge mûr
by Adolphe Retté
The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher: A True Story
by Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 08
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
G. F. Watts
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 02
by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 02
by Louis Constant Wairy
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 16
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Vie de Beethoven
by Romain Rolland
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 05
by Louis Constant Wairy
L'épopée blanche
by Louis-Frédéric Rouquette
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1609-14
by John Lothrop Motley
Gen. Cowdin and the First Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers
by Robert Cowdin
J. Comyns Carr: Stray Memories, by His Wife
by Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr
By-ways on Service: Notes from an Australian Journal
by Hector Dinning
Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796
by Randolph C. (Randolph Chandler) Downes, Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Bugle Blasts Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
by William E. (William Edmund) Crane
Tarua ja totta elämästäni 1 : Kirjat I-V
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Erfolgreichen : (Thirty great lives)
by Herbert Newton Casson
Shakespeare's family
by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
by Suetonius
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
by James Boswell
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I
by Sir John Ross