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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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Archimedes
by Sir Thomas Little Heath
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
by Calvin Thomas
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. VI (of VI), "Spanish Passions" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
by Giacomo Casanova
A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)
by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants
by Thomas Longueville
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
by Carry Amelia Nation
The Story of the Woman's Party
by Inez Haynes Gillmore
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851
by Various Authors
Great Musical Composers: German, French, and Italian
by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Shelley
by John Addington Symonds
Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder
by Shan F. Bullock
Byron
by John Nichol
Philo-Judæus of Alexandria
by Norman Bentwich
Robert Burns: How To Know Him
by William Allan Neilson
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
Russian Memories
by Olga Alekseevna Novikova
Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences
by George William Erskine Russell
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
by Ezra Meeker, Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs
John Knox and the Reformation
by Andrew Lang
The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.
by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving
by Bram Stoker
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851
by Various Authors
Alexander the Great Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
James Fenimore Cooper
by Mary Elizabeth Phillips
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Helen Nicolay
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works
by M. de (Jean Lévesque) Burigny
Auguste Rodin: The Man - His Ideas - His Works
by Camille Mauclair
The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Ninon de l'Enclos and her century
by Mary C. (Mary Catherine) Rowsell
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End
by Franz Liszt
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
by Samuel Johnson
My Diary: North and South (vol. 1 of 2)
by Sir William Howard Russell
Euripides and His Age
by Gilbert Murray
Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters
by Amy Steedman
Seventy Years Among Savages
by Henry S. Salt
Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District
by Frederick Sessions
The Loves of Great Composers
by Gustav Kobbé
La Principessa Belgiojoso Da memorie mondane inedite o rare e da archivii segreti di Stato
by Raffaello Barbiera
The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) Volume 2 (of 2)
by Lady Elizabeth Vassall Fox Holland
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 6, October, 1908
by Various Authors
Willem de Zwijger, Prins van Oranje
by Ruth Putnam
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
by Various Authors
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings
by King of England Charles I, John Gauden
Custis-Lee Mansion: The Robert E. Lee Memorial, Virginia
by Murray H. Nelligan
Dewey and Other Naval Commanders
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
"Honest Abe": A Study in Integrity Based on the Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Alonzo Rothschild
Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian. Volume 1 (of 2)
by William Rounseville Alger, Jr. Horatio Alger
Henry IV, Makers of History
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu'en 1827, tome I
by Eugène François Vidocq
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Caroline the Illustrious, vol. 1 (of 2) : Queen-Consort of George II. and sometime Queen-Regent; a study of her life and time
by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train
by Sir E. N. (Ernest Nathaniel) Bennett
Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division
by T. W. E. Holdsworth
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
An Ohio woman in the Philippines : Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China
by Emily Bronson Conger
An Autobiography
by Catherine Helen Spence
A Grandmother's Recollections
by Ella Rodman Church
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Founder of the Colony of Georgia, in North America.
by Thaddeus Mason Harris
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
by William Westgarth
The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; vol. 1 of 4
by Robert Wilson, Edmund Ollier
The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy
by Henry Martyn Kieffer
Forty Years of It
by Brand Whitlock
Paul Cézanne
by Gustave Coquiot
Swift
by Leslie Stephen
Thomas Moore
by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'
by Frederic George Trayes
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
by Annie L. Burton
Of Six Mediæval Women; To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens
by Alice Kemp-Welch
Eleanor Ormerod, LL. D., Economic Entomologist : Autobiography and Correspondence
by Eleanor A. (Eleanor Anne) Ormerod
Victor Hugo
by Théophile Gautier
Honoré de Balzac
by Théophile Gautier
Niccolò Machiavelli e i suoi tempi, vol. I
by Pasquale Villari
Reminiscences of Peace and War
by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Oliver Cromwell
by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Aus meinem Leben — Zweiter Teil
by August Bebel
The Romance of the Harem
by Anna Harriette Leonowens
Whistler
by T. Martin Wood
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 7)
by François Guizot
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: Claudius
by Suetonius
Raphael
by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody
Roger Williams, Prophet and Pioneer of Soul-Liberty
by Arthur Barsazou Strickland
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
by Various Authors
The Case of Mrs. Clive
by Mrs. (Catherine) Clive
Across the Plains to California in 1852: Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell
by Lodisa Frizell
The story of Abraham Lincoln
by Mary Agnes Hamilton
A Boy Trooper with Sheridan
by Stanton P. Allen
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (6/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
Peter Vischer
by Cecil Headlam
Memoirs of Orange Jacobs
by Orange Jacobs
Arkansas Governors and United States Senators
by John L. (John Lewis) Ferguson
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author
by Andrew J. Blackbird
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
by Sir Henry Craik