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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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God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada
by Clara M. S. Lowe
Mrs. Shelley
by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806-1815
by Anonymous
Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac
by Hampton Sidney Thomas
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone: Index
by John Morley
Zuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen Züchtling Erster Theil
by Joseph M. Hägele
When I Was a Boy in Japan
by Sakae Shioya
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63
by Samuel Pepys
A Raw Recruit's War Experiences
by Ansel D. Nickerson
From Boniface to Bank Burglar; Or, The Price of Persecution How a Successful Business Man, Through the Miscarriage of Justice, Became a Notorious Bank Looter
by George M. (George Miles) White
The siege of Vicksburg, from the diary of Seth J. Wells
by Seth J. (Seth James) Wells
O poeta Chiado (Novas investigações sobre a sua vida e escriptos)
by Alberto Pimentel
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 04
by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans
Ariel: ou, La vie de Shelley
by André Maurois
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 4
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
Southey
by Edward Dowden
La reine Victoria intime Ouvrage illustré de 60 gravures d'après des photographies et des documents inédits
by J.-H. Aubry
Rodin à l'hotel de Biron et à Meudon
by Gustave Coquiot
Paul Appell: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
by Ernest Lebon
Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire: His Life and Work
by Lawrence Foushee London
Rand and the Micmacs
by Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson) Clark
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 63: March 1667-68
by Samuel Pepys
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: Galba
by Suetonius
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 06: June/July 1660
by Samuel Pepys
Our Battery; Or, The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A.
by O. P. (Orlando Phelps) Cutter
A Day with Robert Schumann
by May Byron
Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers
by J. Newton (John Newton) Terrill
Mere mortals : Medico-historical essays
by C. (Charles) MacLaurin
Monsieur de Talleyrand
by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 7
by Madame de Montespan
Gene Stratton Porter, Best-Seller
by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. Kelly
by Russell Anthony Kelly
A fragment of the prison experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman In the State Prison at Jefferson City, Mo., and the U. S. Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. February, 1918–October, 1919
by Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665
by Samuel Pepys
Impressions and Experiences of a French Trooper, 1914-1915
by Christian Mallet
A Sketch of Charles T. Walker, D.D., Pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Augusta, Ga.
by Silas Xavier Floyd
An American Crusader at Verdun
by Philip Sidney Rice
The Life and Work of William Tindale
by William Barrett Cooper
Sir Isaac Brock
by Hugh S. (Hugh Sterling) Eayrs
Maksimilian Aukusti Myhrberg
by Julius Krohn
Heroines of "Mormondom" The Second Book of the Noble Women's Lives Series
by Various Authors
Nuovi studii sul genio vol. I (da Colombo a Manzoni)
by Cesare Lombroso
Mémoires de Garibaldi, tome 2/2
by Alexandre Dumas
William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground
by Scott F. (Scott Frederick) Surtees
José Estevão
by Jaime de Magalhães Lima
The Story of My Life — Volume 04
by Georg Ebers
St. Patrick, the Father of a Sacred Nation
by James F. Loughlin
Alfred Kihlman: Elämän kuvaus. 1 (of 2)
by Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä
Agricola
by Cornelius Tacitus
Kuusi vuotta Siperiassa
by Johannes Granö
Elias Lönnrotin matkat II: 1841-1844
by Elias Lönnrot
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters
by Charles Darwin
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
by Diogenes Laertius
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
by George Alfred Townsend
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
by Ben J. (Ben Johannis) Viljoen
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
by Elbert Hubbard
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2
by United States. Work Projects Administration
A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations
by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler
A Retrospect
by James Hudson Taylor
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4)
by William Milligan Sloane
Louis XIV. Makers of History Series
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
by William James
Nietzsche: His Life and Works
by Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
by Samuel Butler
Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 08 (of 20)
by Henry David Thoreau
The Life of Froude
by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
George Eliot
by Mathilde Blind
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 7 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov
by Maksim Gorky, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
by Henry Reeve
Life of Adam Smith
by John Rae
Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions
by Alexis Soyer
The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2
by Francis A. Leyland
The True Story of My Life: A Sketch
by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Aristotle
by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Taylor
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865
by Ward Hill Lamon
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
by Francis Augustus MacNutt
Early Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard and the Monk of St Gall edited by Prof. A. J. Grant
by Einhard, Balbulus Notker
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings
by Giorgio Vasari
Robert Browning
by Edward Dowden
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2
by United States. Work Projects Administration
George Müller of Bristol, and His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
by Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson
My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825
by Alexandre Dumas
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
The Letters of Robert Burns
by Robert Burns
Leo Tolstoy
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Edward Garnett, G. H. (George Herbert) Perris
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
by James Sime
Keats
by Sidney Colvin
Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 2 (of 2)
by Maurycy Karasowski
The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6)
by John Knox