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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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Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
by Edgar Fawcett
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
by Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.
by Clayton (Author of A treasury of heroes and heroines) Edwards
Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
by William R. (William Rheem) Lighton
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete
by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
Seekers after God
by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2)
by John Evelyn
In Stahlgewittern, aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers
by Ernst Jünger
Sailing Alone Around the World
by Joshua Slocum
James B. Eads
by Louis How
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
by Anatole France
Crimes and Punishments Including a New Translation of Beccaria's 'Dei Delitti e delle Pene'
by James Anson Farrer
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March
by Alban Butler
The Life of James McNeill Whistler
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
by Alfred Burnett
War Letters of a Public-School Boy
by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
Pierre Curie
by Marie Curie
The Journal to Stella
by Jonathan Swift
Roughing It in the Bush
by Susanna Moodie
The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career
by Amerigo Vespucci, Bartolomé de las Casas, Christopher Columbus
Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation
by Henry Thornton Wharton
My Life in China and America
by Wing Yung
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition
by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 1
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
by Elbert Hubbard
Letters to His Children
by Theodore Roosevelt
The taste of honey : The note book of a linguist
by Edna Worthley Underwood
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume IV.
by Walter Scott
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Michael Faraday, His Life and Work
by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson
The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3
by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare
Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting Indian stories and anecdotes from history
by Norman B. (Norman Barton) Wood
Lettres à une inconnue, Tome Deuxième Précédée d'une étude sur P. Mérimée par H. Taine
by Prosper Mérimée
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 1 (of 3)
by James Montgomery, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812
by George Smith
Life of Christ
by Giovanni Papini
American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edward Stratemeyer
Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public
by William Banting
My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833
by Alexandre Dumas
Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè
by Giovanni Duprè
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment
by John Shipp
The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields
by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds
My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830
by Alexandre Dumas
The Printer Boy; Or, How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark An Example for Youth.
by William Makepeace Thayer
History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 1 of 2
by Emperor of the French Napoleon III
My Life — Volume 2
by Richard Wagner
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
by George Lewis Prentiss
The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson
Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Tome 2 (de 3) 1850-1854
by Eugène Delacroix
The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times
by Richard Davey
Notable Women of Modern China
by Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine) Burton
Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War
by James Harvey Kidd
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies
by Walter Besant
The life and teaching of Karl Marx
by Max Beer
Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats
by Barnette Miller
Recollections of a Varied Life
by George Cary Eggleston
Lavengro: the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
by George Borrow
Heroes of To-Day
by Mary Rosetta Parkman
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself
by Cole Younger
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
Eighteenth Century Waifs
by John Ashton
My adventures as a spy
by Baron Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
Chaucer and His Times
by Grace E. (Grace Eleanor) Hadow
On the Trail of the Immigrant
by Edward Alfred Steiner
Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition
by Owen Glynne Jones
The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Abraham Lincoln, Volume II
by Jr. (John Torrey) John T. Morse
The Life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar
by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Turner's Golden Visions
by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind
"Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2)
by John Ayrton Paris
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
by Various Authors
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland
by Joseph Tatlow
Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl
by Caroline Cowles Richards
Delacroix
by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody
Wounded and a Prisoner of War, by an Exchanged Officer
by Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege
by Henry Woodd Nevinson
The Home Life of Poe
by Susan Archer Talley Weiss
The Story of the Cambrian: A Biography of a Railway
by C. P. (Charles Penrhyn) Gasquoine
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
by Henry Fielding
The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise
by Imbert de Saint-Amand
The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements
by William Wells Brown
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Administrative Files Selected Records Bearing on the History of the Slave Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Journal des Goncourt (Premier Volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon
by Frederick V. Holman
John James Audubon
by John Burroughs
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
by Various Authors
The making of a mountaineer
by George Ingle Finch
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V.
by Theophilus Cibber
Henry James, Jr.
by William Dean Howells
Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 3 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England
by Sir Lascelles Wraxall
India under Ripon: A Private Diary
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt