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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.
6153 Audiobooks
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
by Dorothy Osborne
Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 2 (of 2)
by William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik
Chronique de 1831 à 1862, Tome 1 (de 4)
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 25: Russia and Poland
by Giacomo Casanova
Warwick, the Kingmaker
by Charles Oman
Scritti di Giuseppe Mazzini, Politica ed Economia, Vol. I
by Giuseppe Mazzini
Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603
by John Manningham
Twenty Years' Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate
by Frank Thorpe Porter
In the Footprints of Charles Lamb
by Benjamin Ellis Martin
Charles Gounod Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music
by Charles Gounod
Studies in Contemporary Biography
by Viscount James Bryce Bryce
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVII, Virginia Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by George Jacob Holyoake
Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid.
by Ann Fanshawe
I Married a Ranger
by Dama Margaret Smith
What I Remember, Volume 1
by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Shelley at Oxford
by Thomas Jefferson Hogg
Remarkable rogues : The careers of some notable criminals of Europe and America
by Charles Kingston
Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Memoirs of William Wordsworth
by George S. (George Searle) Phillips
Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Tome 1 (de 3) 1823-1850
by Eugène Delacroix
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 09: the False Nun
by Giacomo Casanova
On the Trail of Grant and Lee
by Frederick Trevor Hill
From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services
by William Makepeace Thayer
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
by Louise Mack
Famous American Statesmen
by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear
by Theresa Gowanlock, Theresa Delaney
The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
by Baron Henry Hawkins Brampton
Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher
by Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher
The Life of Columbus
by Sir Arthur Helps
Drake, Nelson and Napoleon
by Baron Walter Runciman Runciman
Der rote Kampfflieger
by Freiherr von Manfred Richthofen
William Dampier
by William Clark Russell
Joyce Kilmer : poems, essays and letters in two volumes. Volume 1, memoirs and poems
by Joyce Kilmer
Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle
by Maud Stepney Rawson
Night Bombing with the Bedouins
by Robert Henry Reece
Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei From "Modern Philology" vol. 13 (1915)
by Allen Wilson Porterfield
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 15: With Voltaire
by Giacomo Casanova
Twenty years at sea: Leaves from my old log-books
by Frederic Stanhope Hill
My Diary: North and South (vol. 2 of 2)
by Sir William Howard Russell
Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II
by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite, Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, Mme. Du Hausset
George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life
by George Manville Fenn
Fielding
by Austin Dobson
History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus II., the Hero-General of the Reformation
by Harriet Earhart Monroe
Queen Elizabeth
by Edward Spencer Beesly
The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional
by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama.
by George Cary Eggleston
Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian. Volume 2 (of 2)
by William Rounseville Alger, Jr. Horatio Alger
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 3, December, 1884
by Various Authors
The lives of celebrated travellers, Vol. 1. (of 3)
by James Augustus St. John
The Life and Reign of Edward I.
by Robert Benton Seeley
The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam
by Herbert E. E. (Herbert Edward Elton) Hayes
George Cruikshank
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
by Henry Woodcock
Vergil: A Biography
by Tenney Frank
The True Story of My Parliamentary Struggle
by Charles Bradlaugh
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis
by John A. J. (John Angel James) Creswell
John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub
by R. E. Cholmeley
Les Origines et la Jeunesse de Lamartine 1790-1812
by Pierre de Lacretelle
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
by Gordon Sellar
La vie de Rossini, tome II
by Stendhal
A Nurse's Life in War and Peace
by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 11
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
The Fight for the Argonne: Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man
by William Benjamin West
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
by George Davidson
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 28: Rome
by Giacomo Casanova
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 1
by George Sand
Souvenirs militaires de 1804 à 1814
by duc de Raymond-Aymery-Philippe-Joseph de Montesquiou Fezensac
Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième série, premier volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Twenty-five years in the Black Belt
by William James Edwards
Condillac: sa vie, sa philosophie, son influence
by comte Gustave Baguenault de Puchesse
Portraits of the Nineties
by E. T. Raymond
Les Contemporains, 7ème Série Études et Portraits Littéraires
by Jules Lemaître
Everlasting Pearl: One of China's Women
by Anna Magdalena Johannsen
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement
by Theodore Roosevelt
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 1 of 3)
by Shearjashub Spooner
My Southern Home: Or, the South and Its People
by William Wells Brown
Lawrence
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
A Garden Diary, September 1899—September 1900
by Emily Lawless
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/April 1659-1660
by Samuel Pepys
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3
by Various Authors
My diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915
by Monica M. Stanley
