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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
Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
by Sir P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell
The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition
by Charles Turley
Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas
by John F. Runciman
Michael Field
by Mary Sturgeon
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton
by David Brewster
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
by John Muir
Selections from Saint-Simon
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Hortense Makers of History Series
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Life of George Borrow
by Herbert George Jenkins
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities
by Thomas Frost
Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches
by Justin McCarthy
The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1
by Daniel Webster
Escritos políticos, económicos y literarios
by Florencio Varela
The Life of Cicero, Volume One
by Anthony Trollope
Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art : a memoir
by André Theuriet, Mathilde Blind, George Clausen, Walter Sickert
John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series
by Jr. (John Torrey) John T. Morse
Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South Africa
by J. W. (Josiah Wright) Matthews
In good company : Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips
by Coulson Kernahan
The Life of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
by Thomas Hodgkin
Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College
by William Robert Lee Smith
The Life of Jefferson Davis
by Frank H. (Frank Heath) Alfriend
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2)
by marquise de Fontenoy
My War Experiences in Two Continents
by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
by James Beattie, Robert Blair, William Falconer
Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love
by Edmund Lee
Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border Their Adventurous Lives and Stirring Experiences in Pioneer Days
by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 02 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
A Confederate Girl's Diary
by Sarah Morgan Dawson
La Confession de Talleyrand, V. 1-5 Mémoires du Prince de Talleyrand
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Constantine the Great: The reorganization of the Empire and the triumph of the Church
by John B. (John Benjamin) Firth
While I Remember
by Stephen McKenna
The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy
by George Jacob Holyoake
Sergeant York And His People
by Sam K. (Sam Kinkade) Cowan
A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes
by Lady Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson
An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron Burr Illustrated
by Alfred Henry Lewis
Reseña Veridica de la Revolución Filipina
by Emilio Aguinaldo
Milton
by John Cann Bailey
Life in the Backwoods
by Susanna Moodie
H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools
by E. M. (Edmund McKenzie) Sneyd-Kynnersley
Stories of Later American History
by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy
Abélard, Tome I
by Charles de Rémusat
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
by James Harrison
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun (Russell Doubleday): The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the Spanish-American War
by Russell Doubleday
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West
by William F. Drannan
Joan of Arc
by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A Minstrel in France
by Sir Harry Lauder
Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations
by William Elliot Griffis
The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island
by John Rodgers Jewitt
A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora
by David Moore Lindsay
The Captive in Patagonia
by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
East Anglia: Personal Recollections and Historical Associations
by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Alexander Hamilton
by Charles A. (Charles Arthur) Conant
De profundis
by Oscar Wilde
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy
by Henry Ossian Flipper
Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs
by John Thomas Codman
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
by Various Authors
Wagner
by John F. Runciman
Reynolds
by Randall Davies
Three Times and Out Told by Private Simmons, Written by Nellie L. McClung
by Mervin C. Simmons, Nellie L. McClung
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
by Georgiana Fullerton
Memoirs of a griffin : Or, A cadet's first year in India
by Francis John Bellew
Personal recollections of the war of 1861 : as private, sergeant and lieutenant in the Sixty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry
by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Fuller
Thirty Years in Australia
by Ada Cambridge
Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch
by Michael Moukhanoff
Prentice Mulford's story: life by land and sea
by Prentice Mulford
The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
by Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter
The Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet
by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius
by Suetonius
Memlinc
by W. H. James (William Henry James) Weale, J. Cyril M. (James Cyril M.) Weale
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (3/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
The Story of Joan of Arc the Witch-Saint
by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 05
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Roster and Record, April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865
by Andrew Brown
The old town
by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Exits and Entrances
by Eva Moore
Laperouse
by Sir Ernest Scott
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 21: South of France
by Giacomo Casanova
Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude
by Jakob Wassermann
The Boys' Life of Lafayette
by Helen Nicolay
Chateaubriand
by Jules Lemaître
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom
by Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley
Mémoires de Garibaldi, tome 1/2
by Alexandre Dumas
Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools
by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Religion in Earnest: A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York
by J. (John) Lyth
The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes
by Robert Arnold
Jean Jacques Rousseau: Een beeld van zijn leven en werken
by Henriette Roland Holst-Van der Schalk
Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter
by Israel Potter
Mémoires authentiques de Latude, écrites par lui au donjon de Vincennes et à Charenton
by Henri Masers de Latude
Au bord de la Bièvre: impressions et souvenirs
by Alfred Delvau
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
by Peter McArthur
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 59: November 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Between You and Me
by Sir Harry Lauder
The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur Middleton
by Edward J. (Edward Joseph) O'Brien
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 2
by Madame de Montespan