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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
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
by Sir Henry Craik
Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand, Volume 3
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Footprints of Famous Men: Designed as Incitements to Intellectual Industry
by John G. (John George) Edgar
Scraps of Biography Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
by Various Authors
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
by John McKinlay
Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage
by Laura Stubbs
With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg and an appreciation of General U. S. Grant
by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Crummer
William Shakespeare: His Homes and Haunts
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 07: Venice
by Giacomo Casanova
History of "Billy the Kid"
by Charles A. Siringo
Oliver Cromwell
by Theodore Roosevelt
The Backwoods Boy; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln
by Jr. Horatio Alger
The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy
by James Carson Elliott
Ingres
by A. J. (Alexander Joseph) Finberg
Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848
by J. D. (Jacob D.) Green
Expédition des dix mille
by Xenophon
Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer
by G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) Sorrel
From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva
by Carmen Sylva
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 01
by Louis Constant Wairy
Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United States
by Auguste Levasseur
My Three Years in a German Prison
by Henri Béland
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 29: Florence to Trieste
by Giacomo Casanova
Twenty-five years in the West
by E. (Erasmus) Manford
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
by Charles Butler
Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume II) (de la Comédie Française)
by Mademoiselle Mars
One way out : A middle-class New-Englander emigrates to America
by Frederick Orin Bartlett
Journal des Goncourt (Troisième série, premier volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian
by Suetonius
Joseph Rogers, M.D.: Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer
by Joseph Rogers
Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex Life
by Edward Alfred Steiner
Jeugdherinneringen
by Jan Ligthart
Under the German shells
by Emmanuel Bourcier
Shaggycoat: The Biography of a Beaver
by Clarence Hawkes
Aus meinem Leben — Erster Teil
by August Bebel
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
by Various Authors
Memoir of William Watts McNair, Late of "Connaught House," Mussooree, of the Indian Survey Department, the First European Explorer of Kafiristan
by J. E. Howard
Mémoires d'une contemporaine. Tome 1 Souvenirs d'une femme sur les principaux personnages de la République, du Consulat, de l'Empire, etc...
by Ida Saint-Elme
Four Masters of Etching
by Sir Frederick Wedmore
Un frère de Nicolas Foucquet: François, Archevêque de Narbonne; Exilé à Alençon
by Louis François Marin Duval
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 20: January/February 1662-63
by Samuel Pepys
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
by Various Authors
Julio Diniz (Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho) Esboço Biographico
by Alberto Pimentel
Lincoln's Last Hours
by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Leale
Journal d'un sous-officier, 1870
by Amédée Delorme
Le carnet de Robespierre (septembre-décembre 1793)
by Maximilien Robespierre
Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865
by Francis Warrington Dawson
Notes of a Private
by John Milton Hubbard
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 4 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
Adventures in Holland and at Waterloo; and Expedition to Portugal
by Thomas Knight
Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel: The True Story
by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 07, July 1900 House of Jacques Coeur: Bourges; Gothic Carved Woodwork
by Various Authors
Séance De L'académie Française Du 2 Mai 1901 Discours De Réception De M. Berthelot; Réponse De M. Jules Lemaître
by M. (Marcellin) Berthelot, Jules Lemaître
Eugène Delacroix
by Camille Mauclair
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 14
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
The Mentor: Joan of Arc, v. 3, Num. 22, Serial No. 98, January 1, 1916
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
Jean Racine
by Jules Lemaître
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 3 (of 3)
by Lady Hester Stanhope
The Mentor: Famous Composers, Vol. 1, Num. 41, Serial No. 41
by Henry T. Finck
La Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles
by René Gillouin
In The Ranks: From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House The War, as Seen and Experienced by a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
by R. E. (Robert Ekin) McBride
Het leven van Hugo de Groot
by Jacob Klinkhamer
Benjamin Constant
by Hippolyte Castille
One year in Scandinavia : results of the gospel in Denmark and Sweden; sketches and observations on the country and people; remarkable events; late persecutions and present aspect of affairs
by Erastus Fairbanks Snow
Mrs. Hungerford Notable Women Authors of the Day
by Helen C. Black
"Green Balls" : The Adventures of a Night-Bomber
by Paul Bewsher
Ludwig Van Beethoven
by Franz Hoffmann
My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908
by Frederick W. Browne
Schiller in Rudolstadt
by Berthold Rein
Vaimoni ja minä eli Harry Hendersonin elämäkerta
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
An English woman-sergeant in the Serbian Army
by Flora Sandes
The Forty-third regiment United States Colored Troops
by Jeremiah Marion Mickley
Michelangelo
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu'en 1827, tome II
by Eugène François Vidocq
The Story of My Life — Volume 06
by Georg Ebers
De Napoléon
by André Suarès
La première canadienne du Nord-ouest
by Georges Dugas
Lincoln, the American
by Frank O. (Frank Orren) Lowden
The Christian serving his own generation A sermon occasioned by the lamented death of Joseph John Gurney, Esq.
by John Alexander
Omistani ja omilleni
by Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Sophokles
by Emil Zilliacus
Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
by Voltairine De Cleyre
The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 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
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties
by William Denison Lyman
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Robert Burns. Vol. 2, Les Oeuvres
by Auguste Angellier
Wilmot and Tilley
by James Hannay
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856
by Charles Dickens
My Recollections of Lord Byron
by contessa di Teresa Guiccioli