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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 Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1
by Freiherr von der Friedrich Trenck
La Presse Clandestine dans la Belgique Occupée
by Jean Massart
Ma confession
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
by Various Authors
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter From the Private Journals and Other Papers of Commander R. Semmes, C.S.N., and Other Officers
by Raphael Semmes
Bernardin de St. Pierre
by Arvède Barine
The Life of St. Paul
by James Stalker
A Day with Lord Byron
by May Byron
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
by James Harrison
A Day with Walt Whitman
by May Byron
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
by Henry Hunt
Charles W. Quantrell : a true history of his guerrilla warfare on the Missouri and Kansas border during the Civil War of 1861 to 1865
by Harrison Trow, John P. Burch
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
by Bernard Fresenborg
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15)
by John Lothrop Motley
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 3
by John McElroy
Whip and Spur
by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
De l'éducation d'un homme sauvage ou des premiers développemens physiques et moraux du jeune sauvage de l'Aveyron
by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Roger Williams
by May Emery Hall
Liége on the line of march : an American girl's experiences when the Germans came through Belgium
by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow
A Biography of Edmund Spenser
by John W. (John Wesley) Hales
Lord Palmerston
by Anthony Trollope
Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
by Keith Henderson
The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745
by Philip Doddridge
Haeckel : his life and work
by Wilhelm Bölsche
Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised
by Rolf Boldrewood
Upper Canada Sketches
by Thomas Conant
Set Down in Malice: A Book of Reminiscences
by Gerald Cumberland
Fletcher of Saltoun
by George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
Personal Recollections of the Civil War By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the 21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts
by James Madison Stone
A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914
by Mildred Aldrich
Our House and London out of Our Windows
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Rodney
by David Hannay
Samuel Butler: A Sketch
by Henry Festing Jones
A soldier's mother in France
by Rheta Childe Dorr
Sämtliche Werke 11 : Autobiographische Schriften
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary
by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
Under the Stars and Bars : or, Memories of four years service with the Oglethorpes, of Augusta, Georgia
by Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Clark
Vidas Ejemplares: Beethoven—Miguel Ángel—Tolstoi
by Romain Rolland
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 5
by George Sand
Thomas Hart Benton
by Theodore Roosevelt
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 13
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même - Tome 1 Suivie de ses œuvres morales, politiques et littéraires
by Benjamin Franklin
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 27: Expelled from Spain
by Giacomo Casanova
Beyond the Marne: Quincy, Huiry, Voisins before and during the battle
by Henriette Cuvru-Magot
Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United States
by Auguste Levasseur
Biographia do Padre José Agostinho de Macedo Seguida d'um catalogo alfabetico de todas as suas obras
by Joaquim Lopes Carreira de Melo
Van Dyck
by Percy Moore Turner
Lloyd George: The Man and His Story
by Frank Dilnot
Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : A record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death
by Hilaire Belloc
Me: A Book of Remembrance
by Onoto Watanna
Chateaubriand et Madame de Custine: Episodes et correspondance inédite
by Émile Chédieu de Robethon, vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand, marquise de Delphine de Sabran Custine
A military genius : Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
by Sarah Ellen Blackwell
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 01
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Notice bio-bibliographique sur La Boëtie, suivie de La Servitude volontaire
by J.-F. (Jean-François) Payen, Estienne de La Boétie
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by George Parsons Lathrop
Three Unpublished Poems
by Louisa May Alcott
With The Immortal Seventh Division
by Edmund John Kennedy
A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield
by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle
A Journey to Ohio in 1810, as Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight
by Margaret Van Horn Dwight
Abbotsford
by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
Exploits and adventures of a soldier ashore and afloat
by William Llewellyn Adams
Tales from a Dugout
by Arthur Guy Empey
My American Diary
by Clare Sheridan
A Soldier's Diary
by Ralph Scott
The Border Bandits An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Noted Outlaws, Jesse and Frank James
by James W. (James William) Buel
The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Henry the Fifth
by Alfred John Church
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 03: February 1659-1660
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 33: January/February 1664-65
by Samuel Pepys
Mémoires d'une contemporaine. Tome 8 Souvenirs d'une femme sur les principaux personnages de la République, du Consulat, de l'Empire, etc...
by Ida Saint-Elme
Royal Romances of To-day
by Kellogg Durland
Pope Adrian IV: An Historical Sketch
by Richard Raby
William Penn
by Hugo Oertel
Known to the Police
by Thomas Holmes
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 46: October 1666
by Samuel Pepys
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave
by Isaac Mason
Vinte Annos de Vida Litteraria
by Alberto Pimentel
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Gems for the Young Folks Fourth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints.
by Various Authors
Friedrich v. Schiller's Biographie
by Heinrich Döring
Les voix qui crient dans le désert : souvenirs d'Afrique
by Ernest Psichari
A woman's wanderings and trials during the Anglo-Boer War
by Jacoba Elizabeth De la Rey
The Story of My Life — Volume 02
by Georg Ebers
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/May 1661
by Samuel Pepys
Du Diable à Dieu : Histoire d'une conversion
by Adolphe Retté
Old Love Stories Retold
by Richard Le Gallienne
George Croghan
by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
The Mentor: Rembrandt, Vol. 4, Num. 20, Serial No. 120, December 1, 1916
by John C. Van Dyke
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 02: January 1659-1660
by Samuel Pepys
Henry James at Work
by Theodora Bosanquet
Vanhan pastorin muistelmia
by K. J. (Kaarle Jaakko) Gummerus
Raffael
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Suomalaisia kirjailijoita
by Eino Leino
Life and Adventures of Frances Namon Sorcho The Only Woman Deep Sea Diver in the World
by Captain Louis Sorcho Great Deep Sea Diving Co.
Gróf Károlyi Gábor följegyzései (2. kötet)
by Károly Eötvös
Tykkien virsi: Kenttäpapin kokemuksia ja mielialoja vapaussodan päiviltä
by Arvi Järventaus
Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit.
by Iwan Bloch
France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
by Francis Parkman
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I
by baron Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon