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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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Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches
by Jagadis Chandra Bose
A Small Boy and Others
by Henry James
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
by Patrick Braybrooke
John Lyly
by John Dover Wilson
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
by Various Authors
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
by Izumi Shikibu, Murasaki Shikibu, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Six Major Prophets
by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him
by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne
Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work
by Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) Stratton
Auguste Rodin
by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years Fifth Edition
by Aylmer Maude
The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6
by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The True Benjamin Franklin
by Sydney George Fisher
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Mentana e il dito di Dio Episodi narrati dal superstite Ettore Pozzi - Seconda edizione, con importanti aggiunte fatte dall'Autore
by Ernesto Pozzi
George Bernard Shaw
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Nathaniel Parker Willis
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821
by Alexandre Dumas
Thirty Years' View (Vol. 1 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850
by Thomas Hart Benton
The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts
Las Casas: "The Apostle of the Indies"
by Alice J. Knight
The Letters of Henry James (Vol. II)
by Henry James
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)
by Edward Gibbon
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.
by Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes
by Samuel Johnson
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1
by Maria Edgeworth
The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive
by Samuel Smiles
The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England
by Moncure Daniel Conway
The cruise of the Snark
by Jack London
Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark
by Harris Newmark
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes
by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Balzac
by Edgar Saltus
The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey
The Puppet Show of Memory
by Maurice Baring
Lord Randolph Churchill
by Winston Churchill
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2
by Andrew Dickson White
Geronimo's Story of His Life
by Geronimo
The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne
by Andrew A. (Andrew Alexander) Bonar
Leonardo Da Vinci
by Maurice W. Brockwell
Kartilyang Makabayan Mga Tanong at Sagot Ukol Kay Andrés Bonifacio at sa KKK
by Hermenegildo Cruz
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
by Slason Thompson
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement
by Colley Cibber
The Story of My Life — Complete
by Georg Ebers
Martin Van Buren
by Edward Morse Shepard
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous
by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Life and Character of Richard Carlile
by George Jacob Holyoake
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
King René d'Anjou and His Seven Queens
by Edgcumbe Staley
Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle
by Frances Fuller Victor
Recuerdos de mi vida (tomo 1 de 2)
by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Horace Walpole: A memoir With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press
by Austin Dobson
Dante
by Edmund G. Gardner
Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771
by Anna Green Winslow
An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot
by J. Wood (James Wood) Brown
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
by John Kline
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Dorothy Wordsworth
Auld lang syne. Second series : My Indian friends
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
by Washington Irving
Byron: The Last Phase
by Richard Edgcumbe
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term
by Grover Cleveland
Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2 : Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761
by Mrs. (Elizabeth) Montagu
The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV
by Charles Greville
Life and Military Career of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman
by P. C. (Phineas Camp) Headley
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 3
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Famous Men of Ancient Times
by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Thomas Carlyle
by Hector Macpherson
The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite
by John Doyle Lee, Alfred Henry Lewis
Russell H. Conwell, founder of the Institutional church in America : the work and the man
by Agnes Rush Burr
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Alaska Days with John Muir
by Samuel Hall Young
Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art
by John Gould Fletcher
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor
by Russell H. Conwell
All in a Life-time
by Henry Morgenthau, French Strother
Recollections of My Youth
by Ernest Renan
Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself with additions by the author, and introduction by Blanche Atkinson
by Frances Power Cobbe
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 2 (of 3)
by James Montgomery, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
An Adventure
by C. A. E. (Charlotte Anne Elizabeth) Moberly, Eleanor F. (Eleanor Frances) Jourdain
The Life of George Borrow
by Clement King Shorter
The Founder of New France : A Chronicle of Champlain
by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby
Vida y obras de don Diego Velázquez
by Jacinto Octavio Picón
Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics
by Allen Johnson
Vie de Tolstoï
by Romain Rolland
The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner
by Freiherr von Georg-Günther Forstner
Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 01 avec notes et commentaires, comprenant ses mémoires publiés par Thomas Moore
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
The Life of Lord Byron
by John Galt
Face to Face with Kaiserism
by James W. (James Watson) Gerard
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment
by Thomson Willing
Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883
by Sir Moses Montefiore, Lady Judith Cohen Montefiore
