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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
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815
by J. (John) Kincaid
Dangers of the Trail in 1865: A Narrative of Actual Events
by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Young
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
by Sir Samuel White Baker
Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Woman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Si Rizal at ang mga Diwata: Zarzuelang Tagalog na may Dalawang Yugto
by Jose N. Sevilla
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
by Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt
The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby
The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time
by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
by William Henry Lowe Watson
The Life of John Clare
by Frederick Martin
Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 1
by Elizabeth Sarah Kite
George Borrow, the Man and His Work
by R. A. J. (Robert Alfred John) Walling
Phrenological Development of Robert Burns From a Cast of His Skull Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834
by George Combe
Briefwechsel zwischen Abaelard und Heloise, mit der Leidensgeschichte Abaelards
by Peter Abelard, Héloïse
Confessions of a Young Man
by George Moore
Abraham Lincoln
by Baron Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood
Emile Zola
by William Dean Howells
Puvis de Chavannes
by François Crastre
Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North
by Fullerton L. (Fullerton Leonard) Waldo
The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom
by E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones
Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation
by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp
by Pat O'Brien
Goya
by François Crastre
Thirty Years on the Frontier
by Robert McReynolds
Twelve Naval Captains Being a Record of Certain Americans Who Made Themselves Immortal
by Molly Elliot Seawell
Italian Yesterdays, vol. 1
by Mrs. Hugh Fraser
Memories of the Civil War
by Henry B. James
Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
by E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) Brown
The Real Gladstone: An Anecdotal Biography
by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884
by Various Authors
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh
by G. W. (George William) Foote
Les Cent Jours (1/2) Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la vie privée, du retour et du règne de Napoléon en 1815.
by baron Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon
Men Who Have Made the Empire
by George Chetwynd Griffith
Mémoires touchant la vie et les écrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (6/6)
by Joseph-Adolphe Aubenas
Veronese
by François Crastre
The Eureka Stockade
by Raffaello Carboni
John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies
by George Bryce
How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon A True Romance of Patriotic Heroism Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom
by Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson) Nixon
Illustrated Edition of the Life and Escape of Wm. Wells Brown from American Slavery Written by Himself
by William Wells Brown
Clara A. Swain, M.D.
by Mrs. Robert Hoskins
Lettres intimes
by Hector Berlioz
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
by Edgar Beecher Bronson
Memorias de un vigilante
by José S. (José Sixto) Alvarez
Lettres à un ami, 1865-1872
by Georges Bizet
Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques et chez les anthropophages (Vol. 1 de 2)
by Louis Ange Pitou
Autour des trônes que j'ai vu tomber
by Princess of Belgium Louise
From Libau to Tsushima A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident
by Evgenii Sigizmundovich Politovskii
The Irish rebellion of 1916 : or, the unbroken tradition
by Nora Connolly O'Brien
Mémoires d'une contemporaine. Tome 4 Souvenirs d'une femme sur les principaux personnages de la République, du Consulat, de l'Empire, etc...
by Ida Saint-Elme
Miniature essays: Igor Stravinsky
by Anonymous
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 10
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Titian
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Bellini
by George Hay
The Wonderful Story of Lincoln And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America
by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens
A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860
by Victor Alexander Montagu
Fifty years with the Revere Copper Co. A Paper Read at the Stockholders' Meeting held on Monday 24 March 1890
by S. T. Snow
Descripción colonial, libro segundo (2/2)
by Reginaldo de Lizárraga
The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Supplies for the Confederate Army, how they were obtained in Europe and how paid for.
by Caleb Huse
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 571 (Supplementary Number)
by Various Authors
The life of John Worth Kern
by Claude G. (Claude Gernade) Bowers
Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume I) (de la Comédie Française)
by Mademoiselle Mars
Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke Late Brigadier-General Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade, Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan, from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880
by Henry Francis Brooke
A friend of Marie-Antoinette (Lady Atkyns)
by Frédéric Barbey
Mémoires d'une contemporaine. Tome 3 Souvenirs d'une femme sur les principaux personnages de la République, du Consulat, de l'Empire, etc...
by Ida Saint-Elme
Le collier des jours: Souvenirs de ma vie
by Judith Gautier
Catherine Booth — a Sketch
by Mildred Duff
Gottfried Keller
by Ricarda Huch
Portraits et souvenirs
by Camille Saint-Saëns
Indian Biography; Vol. 2 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters
by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher
My First Mission
by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon
Politica estera: memorie e documenti
by Francesco Crispi
Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (vol. 1 of 2)
by marquise de Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour
Humboldt From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Souvenirs d'un sexagénaire, Tome IV
by A.-V. (Antoine-Vincent) Arnault
Anglo-American Memories
by George W. (George Washburn) Smalley
The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois
by Anonymous
The eleventh hour in the life of Julia Ward Howe
by Maud Howe Elliott
Pioneer Life in Illinois
by F. M. Perryman
Factos Notaveis da Historia Portugueza e Biographia do Marquez de Pombal
by Josephina Pinto Carneiro Perestrello
Mahatma Gandhi
by Romain Rolland
The romance of my childhood and youth
by Juliette Adam
Journal of William H. Richardson, a private soldier in the campaign of New and Old Mexico, under the command of Colonel Doniphan of Missouri
by William H. Richardson
Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 1 Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne
by Giuseppe Bertini
Avicenne
by Bernard Carra de Vaux
Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
by Robert Ornsby
Geld und Erfahrung
by Max Eyth
