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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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The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White)
by William Hale White
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
by Lucy A. (Lucy Ann) Delaney
Painted Windows
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate
by Abraham Lincoln
Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An Autobiography
by active 1835-1883 Thomas Faughnan
Professor W. G. Elmslie, D.D.: Memoir and Sermons
by William Gray Elmslie
Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
by Albrecht Dürer
Lord Kitchener
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds
by F. J. (Frederick J.) Cross
Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Abraham Lincoln
by James Russell Lowell
Christopher Columbus
by Mildred Stapley Byne
Drum taps in Dixie : memories of a drummer boy, 1861-1865
by Delavan S. Miller
The Man Behind the Bars
by Winifred Louise Taylor
Colonel Henry Ludington: A Memoir
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Voyages loin de ma chambre t.1
by Noémie Dondel Du Faouëdic
Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons
by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee
El Manuscrito de mi madre aumentado con las comentarios, prólogo y epílogo
by Alix de Lamartine
Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788
by William Biggs
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 5
by Philip Henry Sheridan
The Story of Captain, the Horse with the Human Brain
by George Wharton James
The History of the First United States Flag and the Patriotism of Betsy Ross, the Immortal Heroine That Originated the First Flag of the Union
by J. Franklin (John Franklin) Reigart
Hans Holbein
by Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley) Chamberlain
Ang Tunay na Búhay ni P. Dr. José Burgos at Nang Manga Nacasama Niya na Sina P. Jacinto Zamora, P. Mariano Gómez at and Nadayang Miguel Zaldua
by Honorio López
Henriette Goldschmidt: Ihr Leben und ihr Schaffen
by Josephine Siebe, Johannes Prüfer
Récits d'une tante (Vol. 3 de 4) Mémoires de la Comtesse de Boigne, née d'Osmond
by comtesse de Louise-Eléonore-Charlotte-Adélaide d'Osmond Boigne
Personal Experience of a Physician
by John Ellis
Dal molino di Cerbaia a Cala Martina Notizie inedite sulla vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi
by Guelfo Guelfi
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665
by Samuel Pepys
Escape from the Confederacy
by Benjamin F. Hasson
Life of Bunyan
by James Hamilton
Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième série, deuxième volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Mémoires de madame de Rémusat (2/3) publiées par son petit-fils, Paul de Rémusat
by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator
by Abraham Lincoln
Cox—The Man
by Roger Ward Babson
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac
by Anna M. (Anna Morris) Holstein
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 4
by Madame de Montespan
De ramp van Valparaiso De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907
by Henri Bourdon
Under the periscope
by Mark Herbert Joseph Bennett
Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858
by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 55: July 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Tizian
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Cincinnati's "Old Cunny": A Notorious Purveyor of Human Flesh
by Linden F. (Linden Forest) Edwards, Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Franklin: A Sketch
by John Bigelow
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66
by Samuel Pepys
Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward, Containing: A Full Sketch of Her Life With Various Selections from Her Writings and Letters ...
by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
Reminiscences, Incidents, Battles, Marches and Camp Life of the Old 4th Michigan Infantry in War of Rebellion, 1861 to 1864
by Orvey S. Barrett
The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery
by Leonard 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, 1619-23
by John Lothrop Motley
Best o' luck: How a fighting Kentuckian won the thanks of Britain's King
by Alexander McClintock
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 12
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Kelion Franklin Peddicord of Quirk's Scouts, Morgan's Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A.
by India W. P. (Indiana Washington Peddicord) Logan
A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P. of Adelaide, South Australia
by Marshall MacDermott
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 17: July/August 1662
by Samuel Pepys
L'evoluzione di Giosuè Carducci
by Alfredo Panzini
Yrjö Aukusti Wallin ja hänen matkansa Arabiassa
by Julius Krohn
Richard Wagner
by Champfleury
Apuntes biograficos de escritores, oradores y hombres de estado de la Republica Argentina
by Juan María Gutiérrez
Voltaire
by Georg Brandes
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Anarchism and Other Essays
by Emma Goldman
Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes
by William H. C. (William Henry Carman) Folsom
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870
by Charles Dickens
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
by John McElroy
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Oscar Wilde
by Guy Thorne
William Shakespeare
by John Masefield
The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman
by Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
by W. N. P. Barbellion
How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time
by Rosalind Goforth
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4)
by William Milligan Sloane
Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
by Ruth Putnam
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
by Ida Husted Harper
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Complete 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
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
by Henry Norman Hudson
Wilford Woodruff, Fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints History of His Life and Labors, as Recorded in His Daily Journals
by Wilford Woodruff
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4)
by William Milligan Sloane
Confessiones
by Saint of Hippo Augustine
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)
by Mark Twain
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
by Thomas Hood
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776
by James Boswell
Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief
by Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts
Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
by Russell Doubleday
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography
by Jean-Henri Fabre
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815
by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman
Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine
by Samuel Smiles
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
by Lewis Melville, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
My Memoirs, Vol. V, 1831 to 1832
by Alexandre Dumas
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 2
by United States. Work Projects Administration