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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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Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain
by Charlotte Elizabeth
Deportation, its meaning and menace Last message to the people of America by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
by Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman
Adventures in Silence
by Herbert W. (Herbert Winslow) Collingwood
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 03
by Louis Constant Wairy
Rubens
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Biographical Outlines: British History
by Anonymous
A memoir of Miss Hannah Adams
by Hannah Adams, Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee
Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863 An address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, March 3, 1879
by Charles H. Olmstead
Under Many Flags
by Katharine Scherer Cronk, Elsie Singmaster
Omnia Opera Sancti Patricii All the Works of Saint Patrick
by Saint Patrick
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), e l'arte de' suoi tempi La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero
by Adolfo Venturi
The hoe cake of Appomattox
by Ellis Spear
Pathfinding on Plain and Prairie Stirring Scenes of Life in the Canadian North-west
by John McDougall
Parasken runot
by Larin Paraske
Marie Antoinette
by Clara Tschudi
Milton
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
by Mary Seacole
Political Women, Vol. 1
by active 1840-1883 Sutherland Menzies
John Knox
by A. Taylor (Alexander Taylor) Innes
Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)
by Henry David Thoreau
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings
by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
The Three Brontës
by May Sinclair
Memories and Adventures
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
by Hugh Binning
The seven stairs
by Stuart Brent
Notable Women Authors of the Day: Biographical Sketches
by Helen C. Black
Brief Lives, Vol. 2
by John Aubrey
Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
by Saint of Loyola Ignatius
Selbstbetrachtungen
by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
by Thomas Wright
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe
The Soul of Abraham Lincoln
by William E. (William Eleazar) Barton
The Brownings, Their Life and Art
by Lilian Whiting
American Men of Mind
by Burton Egbert Stevenson
The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 1 of 2)
by Florence May
Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846
by Honoré de Balzac
Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 3
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868
by David Livingstone
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
by Sarah Bernhardt
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I
by Burton Jesse Hendrick
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
by James Nasmyth
Football days : memories of the game and of the men behind the ball
by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
by Mary Somerville
Famous Men of Science
by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Abraham Lincoln, Volume I
by Jr. (John Torrey) John T. Morse
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
A Son of the Middle Border
by Hamlin Garland
The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools
by Washington Irving
Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Lester Pearson
"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)
by Dr. (John) Doran
Women in the Life of Balzac
by Juanita Helm Floyd
L'oeuvre du comte de Mirabeau
by comte de Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti Mirabeau
"The story of my life" : (being reminiscences of sixty years' public service in Canada.)
by Egerton Ryerson
Mark Twain's Letters — Complete (1853-1910)
by Mark Twain
The Great War As I Saw It
by Frederick George Scott
Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation
by Robert Willis
Diary of an Enlisted Man
by Lawrence Van Alstyne
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
by Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete
by Aaron Burr
The Freedmen's Book
by Lydia Maria Child
A Day with Keats
by May Byron
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Collections and Recollections
by George William Erskine Russell
Bible Stories and Religious Classics
by Philip P. (Philip Patterson) Wells
A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist
by Marie Carmichael Stopes
Frederick Law Olmsted : Landscape architect. Vol. 1, Early years and experiences, together with biographical notes.
by Frederick Law Olmsted
Matthew Arnold
by George William Erskine Russell
The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 1 of 2
by Francis A. Leyland
Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915
by Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier
Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 2 of 2)
by Bertha von Suttner
Árminius Vambéry, his life and adventures
by Ármin Vámbéry
Chaucer's Official Life
by James R. (James Root) Hulbert
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 2
by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women
by Elbert Hubbard
列仙傳
by Xiang Liu
Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death
by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator
by Arthur Kitson
Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of Mexico
by James O. (James Ohio) Pattie, Conrad Malte-Brun, Dr. Willard
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
by Frederick Niecks
A Book About Myself
by Theodore Dreiser
Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide
by Charles Burdett
The Story of Pocahontas
by Charles Dudley Warner
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to his father and his youngest sister, 1857-78
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I.
by Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Washington Irving
by Charles Dudley Warner
Life in an Indian Outpost
by Gordon Casserly
Edward MacDowell: A Study
by Lawrence Gilman
My Story
by Anson Mills
Katharina von Bora: Geschichtliches Lebensbild
by Albrecht Thoma
13 Days: The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison
by John Alan Lyde Caunter
Twenty Years in Europe A Consul-General's Memories of Noted People, with Letters From General W. T. Sherman
by S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall) Byers