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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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Six modern women: Psychological sketches
by Laura Marholm
John Forster By One of His Friends
by Percy Fitzgerald
What Happened to Me
by La Salle Corbell Pickett
Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by George Jacob Holyoake
Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
by Elliott O'Donnell
An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916
by Oswald Boelcke
James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2
by Horace Elisha Scudder
Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion
by G. Hamilton-Browne
Sermons of the Rev. Francis A. Baker, Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul With a Memoir of His Life
by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Baker
Cavour
by contessa Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco
Female Scripture Biography, Volume I
by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox
Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin With Two Uncollected Poems by Arthur Machen
by Vincent Starrett
Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome premier Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle
by Tallemant des Réaux
On Commando
by Dietlof Van Warmelo
Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons—1861 to 1865
by Henry Harrison Eby
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1
by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863
by Adam Gurowski
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 12
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884
by Various Authors
A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870
by William Cullen Bryant
Milton
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Q.6.a and Other places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918
by Francis Buckley
Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent
by Joel Tyler Headley, Willis Fletcher Johnson
Life of Beethoven
by Ludwig Nohl
Legends: Autobiographical Sketches
by August Strindberg
Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812
by Sarah J. Rhea
Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898
by W. W. (William Wallace) Mills
William Penn
by Rupert Sargent Holland
Poets of the South A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated
by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold
by Archibald Murray Howe
Coleridge
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Biographical Essays
by Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar
by Henry Stevens
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery
by L. S. (Lucy S.) Thompson
Une grande dame de la cour de Louis XV: La duchesse d'Aiguillon (1726-1796)
by Paul d' Estrée, Albert Callet
The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by James Augustus St. John
Dr. Elsie Inglis
by Lady Frances Balfour
What I Remember, Volume 2
by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Reminiscences of a Pioneer
by Colonel William Thompson
Marse Henry: An Autobiography (Volume 2)
by Henry Watterson
The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 2 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis
by John Malcolm
Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l'âge de dix ans
by active 1755 Mme. Hecquet, Charles-Marie de La Condamine
Life of Frederick Marryat
by David Hannay
Viscount Dundee
by Louis A. Barbé
Conscript 2989: Experiences of a Drafted Man
by Irving Crump
"Father Clark," or The Pioneer Preacher
by John Mason Peck
The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860
by Charles Greville
George Washington
by Ferdinand Schmidt
Accidents of an antiquary's life
by D. G. (David George) Hogarth
At Ypres with Best-Dunkley
by Thomas Hope Floyd
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Life Incidents, in Connection with the Great Advent Movement, as Illustrated by the Three Angels of Revelation XIV (Volume 1)
by James White
The life record of H. W. Graber A Terry Texas Ranger, 1861-1865; sixty-two years in Texas
by H. W. (Henry W.) Graber
Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome cinquième Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle
by Tallemant des Réaux
Das Leben Tolstois
by Romain Rolland
The Diary of a Turk
by Çerkesseyhizade Halil Halit
Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse
by Ernest Renan
Mémoires de Marmontel (Volume 1 of 3) Mémoires d'un Père pour servir à l'Instruction de ses enfans
by Jean-François Marmontel
Poems by Isaac Rosenberg
by Isaac Rosenberg
Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon
by George Manville Fenn
Garibaldi
by Francesco Crispi
Boche and Bolshevik Experiences of an Englishman in the German Army and in Russian Prisons
by Hereward Thimbleby Price
Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864
by Thomas Hanly Ball
My first campaign
by Joseph W. Grant
Caroline the Illustrious, vol. 2 (of 2) : Queen-Consort of George II. and sometime Queen-Regent; a study of her life and time
by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England
by Eliza Allen Southall
A political pilgrim in Europe
by Ethel Snowden
Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran
by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson
Mes souvenirs (1848-1912)
by Jules Massenet
The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones
by Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey) Pringle
Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881
by James B. Gillett
The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President
by William G. (William Gunion) Rutherford
Reminiscences of a Rebel
by Wayland Fuller Dunaway
Camping with President Roosevelt
by John Burroughs
De omwenteling van 1830
by Hendrik Conscience
Henner
by François Crastre
Thomas Carlyle
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, J. E. (John Ernest) Hodder-Williams
Goethe und Werther: Briefe Goethe's, meistens aus seiner Jugendzeit
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 5 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
California, 1849-1913; Or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State
by L. H. (Lell Hawley) Woolley
Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Half a Century
by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
Canada and the British immigrant
by Emily P. (Emily Poynton) Weaver
The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography
by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
Ball's Bluff: An Episode and Its Consequences to Some of Us
by Charles Lawrence Peirson
My Literary Passions
by William Dean Howells
Chr. M. Wieland's Biographie
by Heinrich Döring
Letters from the peninsula, 1808-1812
by Sir William Warre
Comentario del coronel Francisco Verdugo, de la guerra de Frisia, en xiv años que fue gobernador y capitan general de aquel estado y ejercito por el rey don Felipe II, nuestro señor
by Francisco Verdugo
History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the spring and summer of 1861
by Charles H. Clarke
Old Daniel
by Thomas Hodson