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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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Life of John Sterling
by Thomas Carlyle
La maison de Claudine
by Colette
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
by Susanna Moodie
The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A.
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
by Hester Lynch Piozzi
Cyrus the Great Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
Madame Roland, Makers of History
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Quotes and Images From The Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
The Life of General Francis Marion
by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems
Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon Siècle de Louis XIV, la régence, Louis XV
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
by Various Authors
Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Immortal Youth: A Study in the Will to Create
by Lucien Price
Kurgast: Aufzeichnungen von einer Badener Kur
by Hermann Hesse
History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry: A prisoner's diary A paper read at the officers' reunion in Boston, May 11, 1877
by Samuel M. (Samuel Miller) Quincy
Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath
by Henry Venn Lansdown
The Anabasis of Alexander : or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great
by Arrian
Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard
by Søren Kierkegaard
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4)
by Plutarch
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 3
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Memoirs of General Lafayette With an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824.
by Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo) Knapp
In the World War
by Graf Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin von und zu Chudenitz
William Blake, Painter and Poet
by Richard Garnett
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685
by grevinde Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
Biographies of Working Men
by Grant Allen
Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories
by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Biografia del libertador Simon Bolívar, ó La independencia de la América del sud Reseña histórico-biográfica
by Lorenzo Campano
My Cave Life in Vicksburg, with Letters of Trial and Travel
by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 5)
by François Guizot
Trois Héros de la colonie de Montréal
by Paul Dupuy
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 29: June/July 1664
by Samuel Pepys
Poetas de color
by Francisco Calcagno
Teuvo Pakkala: Kirjailijakuva
by Juhani Siljo
Itsenäinen Suomi, unelmasta todellisuuteen
by Edv. (Edvard) Hjelt
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
by Thomas Jefferson
Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells
by Charlotte Brontë
Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
by Abraham Lincoln
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
by marquis de Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
by Jean-Pierre Camus
Amerigo Vespucci
by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland
by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland
Real Soldiers of Fortune
by Richard Harding Davis
The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself
by Thomas Ellwood
Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States
by James W. C. Pennington
History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
by Jacob Abbott
Four Months Among the Gold-Finders in Alta California Being the Diary of an Expedition From San Francisco to the Gold Districts
by Henry Vizetelly
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, margrave de Bareith. Tome 1
by Margrave of Bayreuth consort of Friedrich Margravine Wilhelmine
John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes
by John Masefield
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of Paine's Writings on Mark Twain
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Erzählungen aus der Römischen Geschichte in biographischer Form
by L. (Ludwig) Stacke
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 07
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot
by Austin Craig
Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 4
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography
by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
How I found Livingstone : Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone
by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House
by Elizabeth Keckley
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906)
by Mark Twain
Les Rues de Paris, tome troisième Biographies, portraits, récits et légendes
by Bathild Bouniol
Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812: A Drama; and Other Poems
by Sarah Anne Curzon
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 24: London to Berlin
by Giacomo Casanova
De Werken van William Shakespeare Overzicht van Shakespeare's leven en werken
by L. A. J. (Leendert Alexander Johannes) Burgersdijk
The House of Quiet: An Autobiography
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Apontamentos para a Biographia do Cidadão José da Silva Passos
by Manuel Joaquim Pereira da Silva
Vier Jahre in Spanien. Die Carlisten, ihre Erhebung, ihr Kampf und ihr Untergang.
by August von Goeben
Albrecht Dürer: Een levensbeeld
by Armin Stein
Mit liv og levned som jeg selv har forstaaet det
by J. (Johannes) Fibiger
De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time
by Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
by Thomas Jefferson
Tendresses impériales
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666
by Samuel Pepys
Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (2/3)
by baron de Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin Marbot
The romance of Isabel Lady Burton : The story of her life. Volume I
by Lady Isabel Burton, W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 3 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis
by John Malcolm
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord
by George William Curtis
The Wentworth Letter
by Jr. Joseph Smith
Vita di Andrea Doria, Volume I
by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
Gedankengut aus meinen Wanderjahren. Erster Band
by Max Dauthendey
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610b
by John Lothrop Motley
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs
Biographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
by John Morley
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Two Years in the Forbidden City
by Princess Der Ling
Karl Ludwig Sand Celebrated Crimes
by Alexandre Dumas
How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc.
by Geoffrey H. Malins
General Scott
by Marcus J. (Marcus Joseph) Wright