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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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The Mentor: American Pioneer Prose Writers, Vol. 4, Num. 6, Serial No. 106, May 1, 1916
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York
by William Ingraham Russell
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 36: July 1665
by Samuel Pepys
Norman Prince : A volunteer who died for the cause he loved
by George Franklin Babbitt
Lives of Two Cats
by Pierre Loti
An Account of Our Arresting Experiences
by Conway Evans
Jaakko Cook'in matkat Tyynellä merellä
by Antti Fredrik Hassell
Children of the Arctic
by Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Marie Ahnighito Peary
Battery D First Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War
by George C. Sumner
John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal Reminiscences
by John Porter Fort
Notes of a Gold Digger, and Gold Diggers' Guide
by James Bonwick
Mémoires touchant la vie et les écrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (2/6)
by C. A. (Charles Athanase) Walckenaer
Jehan de Paris varlet de chambre et peintre ordinaire des rois Charles VIII et Louis XII
by J. (Jules) Renouvier
Dinsmore Ely, One Who Served
by Dinsmore Ely
Leven en streven van L. R. Koolemans Beynen
by Charles Boissevain
Personal Experiences During the Chicago Fire, 1871
by Frank J. (Frank Joseph) Loesch
Thackeray's London: a description of his haunts and the scenes of his novels
by William H. (William Henry) Rideing
Sorrisi di gioventù : Ricordi e note
by Anton Giulio Barrili
Suomalaisia näyttelijöitä : Lapsuuden ja nuoruuden muistoja
by Aarni Kouta
Elämäni
by Paul von Hindenburg
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford
Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 1
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Memoirs to Illustrate the History of My Time, Volume 1
by François Guizot
Plantation sketches
by Margaret Devereux
Stories of Authors, British and American
by Edwin Watts Chubb
The Life of Gordon, Volume II
by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Great Artists, Vol 1.: Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer
by Jennie Ellis Keysor
Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study
by Arthur Ransome
Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20)
by Henry David Thoreau
George Washington
by Calista McCabe Courtenay
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
by Various Authors
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
by Upton Sinclair
Lettres de Madame de Sévigné Précédées d'une notice sur sa vie et du traité sur le style épistolaire de Madame de Sévigné
by marquise de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévigné
Michael Angelo Buonarroti With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda
by Charles Holroyd
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Pictures of the old French court : Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne
by Mrs. (Catherine Mary Charlton) Bearne
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
by Sir Sidney Lee
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
by George Cavendish
Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works
by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler, G. W. (George William) Foote
Henry D. Thoreau
by F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) Sanborn
John Chambers, Servant of Christ and Master of Hearts, and His Ministry in Philadelphia
by William Elliot Griffis
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2
by Thomas Jefferson
After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819
by William Edward Frye
Journal of my journey over the mountains while surveying for Lord Thomas Fairfax, baron of Cameron, in the northern neck of Virginia, beyond the Blue Ridge, in 1747-8.
by George Washington
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh
by Vincent van Gogh
Three generations
by Maud Howe Elliott
Thomas Paine, the Apostle of Liberty An Address Delivered in Chicago, January 29, 1916; Including the Testimony of Five Hundred Witnesses
by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences
by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph
Later Queens of the French Stage
by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams
A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare Player, Poet, and Playmaker
by Frederick Gard Fleay
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend
by Lilian Whiting
The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc.
by John William Polidori
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
by Samuel Smiles
The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
by A. Leah (Ann Leah) Underhill
Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century
by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
by Buffalo Bill
Aubrey Beardsley
by Robert Baldwin Ross
The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 1 (of 2)
by John Cordy Jeaffreson
The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821
by Mary Browne
Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3)
by John Ireland, John Nichols
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life
by Hester Lynch Piozzi
H. G. Wells
by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Madame de Longueville: La Jeunesse de Madame de Longueville
by Victor Cousin
China under the Empress Dowager : Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi
by J. O. P. (John Otway Percy) Bland, Sir E. (Edmund) Backhouse
Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic
by James Douglas
Critical Miscellanies, (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill; Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography
by John Morley
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
by Samuel Murray Hussey
Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades
by Chester Milton Sanford, Grace Arlington Owen
Horace
by Sir Theodore Martin
The Mystery of Mary Stuart
by Andrew Lang
Art in England: Notes and Studies
by Dutton Cook
The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2)
by John Ayrton Paris
Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field
by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence
by Charles Alfred Downer
Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo
by William Wilson Hunter
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
by William John Wills
The Mentor: American Naturalists, Vol. 7, Num. 9, Serial No. 181, June 15, 1919
by Ernest Ingersoll
My Life at Sea being a "yarn" loosely spun for the purpose of holding together certain reminiscences of the transition period from sail to steam in the British mercantile marine (1863-1894)
by William Caius Crutchley
Lectures and Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Sir Charles Napier
by Sir William Francis Butler
The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV
by Charles Greville
Handel
by Edward J. (Edward Joseph) Dent
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
by I. Giberne (Isabel Giberne) Sieveking
