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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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Trapping wild animals in Malay jungles
by Charles Mayer
General Brock
by Lady Matilda Ridout Edgar
The New Man: Twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man
by Henry Clay Bruce
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 16: Depart Switzerland
by Giacomo Casanova
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life
by Samuel Pepys
Reminiscencies of a Confederate soldier of Co. C, 2nd Va. Cavalry
by Rufus H. Peck
Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2
by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 2
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Waterloo Days: The narrative of an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June 1815
by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Anne) Eaton
Seventeen Years in the Underworld
by Wellington Scott
Victoria C. Woodhull: A Biographical Sketch
by Theodore Tilton
Four Months in Libby and the Campaign Against Atlanta
by I. N. (Isaac N.) Johnston
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 14
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 11
by Louis Constant Wairy
From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log
by Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 04
by Count Anthony Hamilton
Mes Prisons
by Silvio Pellico
Widger's Quotations from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vanhan päiväkirjan lehtiä Episodi J. L. Runebergin elämästä
by Berta Edelfelt
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 5
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
Recollections of the Civil War
by Maud E. Morrow
Mesmer e il magnetismo La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero
by A. (Angelo) Mosso
Chickamauga. Useless, Disastrous Battle
by Smith D. (Smith Dykins) Atkins
J. Ogier de Gombauld, 1570-1666 étude biographique et littéraire sur sa vie et ses ouvrages
by René Pocard du Cosquer de Kerviler
Meine Erinnerungen aus Ostafrika
by Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war. Band 1 Für die Jugend ausgewählt aus den Schriften Roseggers vom Hamburger Jugendschriftenausschuß.
by Peter Rosegger
Loges et coulisses
by Jules Huret
Aus dem Morgenlande: Altes und Neues
by Heinrich Brugsch
Gamle Minder fra tjeneste-aarene ombord i franske skibe 1823-1829. Nedskrevet i 1877.
by C. van Dockum
Muoto- ja muistikuvia II
by Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä
Muoto- ja muistikuvia III
by Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä
He Knew Lincoln
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
Intiaanipoika Pohjois-Amerikan aarniometsissä
by Charles A. Eastman
Szilágyi és Káldy
by Károly Eötvös
Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical
by William H. (William Henry) Atherton
The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4)
by John Charles Dent
Cornish Characters and Strange Events
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
by John Timbs
Three years in the Sixth Corps : A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865
by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10) Filarete and Simone to Mantegna
by Giorgio Vasari
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
by John Hill Burton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work
by W. J. (William James) Henderson
The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse
by Saint de Lisieux Thérèse
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete
by Frederick Niecks
Through St. Dunstan's to Light
by James H. Rawlinson
James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2
by Horace Elisha Scudder
The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
by Samuel Smiles
Kate Greenaway
by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann, George Somes Layard
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy
by S. A. (Sofia Andreevna) Tolstaia
Bacon
by R. W. (Richard William) Church
A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833
by John Thomas Smith
Army Life in a Black Regiment
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Junius Unmasked Or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence
by Joel Moody
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)
by James Montgomery, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo
by George Simmons
Biographical Sketches of the Generals of the Continental Army of the Revolution
by Mary Theresa Leiter
The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania)
by Natalie Stackelberg
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
by James E. (James Everett) Seaver
The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers
by Henry Childs Merwin
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 01 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait
by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. III (of VI), "The Eternal Quest" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
by Giacomo Casanova
The Love Affairs of Lord Byron
by Francis Henry Gribble
Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 01
by Guy de Maupassant
Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character And a Memoir of Dean Ramsay by Cosmo Innes
by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
Sixty Years of California Song
by Margaret Blake Alverson
Thomas Jefferson
by Henry Childs Merwin
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
by prince de François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie d'Orléans Joinville
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
by Richard Harding Davis
The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 2 (of 3)
by L. (Luke) Tyerman
Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865
by Mary Ann Harris Gay
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
by James Gillman
Chronique de 1831 à 1862, Tome 4 (de 4)
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
Vailima Letters Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Life of La Fayette, the Knight of Liberty in Two Worlds and Two Centuries
by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
James Russell Lowell and His Friends
by Edward Everett Hale
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
by Alexander Berkman
The White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Faith
by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone
Vie de Jeanne d'Arc. Vol. 1 de 2
by Anatole France
Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D.
by G. R. S. (George Robert Stow) Mead
The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)
by John Cordy Jeaffreson
Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868
by Hector Berlioz
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
by Aaron Burr
Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1
by Slason Thompson
Florence Nightingale, the Angel of the Crimea: A Story for Young People
by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards