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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 English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
by Anna Harriette Leonowens
Fanny goes to war
by Pat Beauchamp Washington
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
On the Stage--and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
James Geikie, the Man and the Geologist
by Marion I. (Marion Isabel) Newbigin, Sir J. S. (John Smith) Flett
John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings
by William Sloane Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements
by Frank B. Lord, James William Bryan
Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 4 de 5)
by Hippolyte Taine
Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand, Volume 2
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Darwin
by Grant Allen
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 3: Condorcet
by John Morley
The Makers of Canada: Champlain
by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne
Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air
by Henry Bordeaux
From Slave to College President: Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington
by G. Holden (Godfrey Holden) Pike
The Chief Engineer
by Henry Abbott
Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation
by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
by Washington Irving
Nathan Hale
by Jean Christie Root
James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters
by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André
by Benson John Lossing
Botticelli
by Henry Bryan Binns
A Girl Among the Anarchists
by Isabel Meredith
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
by Freiherr von der Friedrich Trenck
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1
by Various Authors
Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
by Charles Seymour
The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm
by John Williams Streeter
The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers
by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831
by Anthony Norris Groves
歸田錄
by Xiu Ouyang
Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1
by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
Vie de Henri Brulard, tome 2
by Stendhal
William Bradford of Plymouth
by Albert Hale Plumb
Two Colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces
by Addie W. Hunton, Kathryn M. (Kathryn Magnolia) Johnson
Lafayette
by Martha Foote Crow
Alfred de Musset et George Sand dessins par Alfred de Musset
by Maurice Clouard
On the Trail of Deserters; A Phenomenal Capture
by Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Life and Writings of Thomas R. Malthus
by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Drysdale
The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 1 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis
by John Malcolm
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill
by Buffalo Bill
Mahomet, Founder of Islam
by Gladys M. Draycott
Briefe aus dem Gefängnis
by Rosa Luxemburg
Irish Memories
by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville, Martin Ross
The Subterranean Brotherhood
by Julian Hawthorne
Paris War Days: Diary of an American
by Charles Inman Barnard
Anatole France
by Georg Brandes
Excellent Women
by Various Authors
Two years and four months in a lunatic asylum : from August 20th, 1863 to December 20th, 1865
by Hiram Chase
History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers
by B. F. (Bernard F.) Blakeslee
The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl
by Katharine Duncan Morse
Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings
by Z. S. (Zachariah Simpson) Hastings
Four American naval heroes : Paul Jones, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Farragut, Admiral Dewey; a book for young Americans
by Mabel Borton Beebe
Mozart
by Ebenezer Prout
A Prisoner in Turkey
by John Still
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Memoir of Queen Adelaide, Consort of King William IV.
by Dr. (John) Doran
Reminiscences of Joseph, the Prophet, and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
by Edward Stevenson
From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw
by William Meade Dame
In the Claws of the German Eagle
by Albert Rhys Williams
Chardin
by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody
Behind the Screen
by Samuel Goldwyn
Great Christians of France: Saint Louis and Calvin
by François Guizot
William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 1
by Edward Smith
Dürer
by Herbert Furst
Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt
by John Burroughs
The Latter-Day Prophet: History of Joseph Smith Written for Young People
by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon
Black Beaver, the Trapper
by James Campbell Lewis, George Edward Lewis
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2
by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
My Escape from Donington Hall, Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915
by Gunther Plüschow
"We" : The famous flier's own story of his life and his trans-Atlantic flight, together with his views on the future of aviation
by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Lindbergh
A Day with John Milton
by May Byron
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 17: Return to Italy
by Giacomo Casanova
The Origin of the Red Cross: "Un souvenir de Solferino"
by Henry Dunant
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt's "Jammers-minde". En egenhændig skildring af hendes fangenskab i Blaataarn i aarene 1663-1685
by grevinde Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
From Death Into Life or, Twenty Years of My Ministry
by W. (William) Haslam
Diane de Poitiers
by M. (Jean Baptiste Honoré Raymond) Capefigue
Richard Lovell Edgeworth: A Selection From His Memoirs
by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth
The Cruise of a Schooner
by Albert W. (Albert Wadsworth) Harris
Avant et Après Avec les vingt-sept dessins du manuscrit original
by Paul Gauguin
Mémoires touchant la vie et les écrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (3/6)
by C. A. (Charles Athanase) Walckenaer
The Story of My Mind; Or, How I Became a Rationalist
by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 03: Military Career
by Giacomo Casanova
A Colored Man Round the World
by David F. Dorr
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
by Baroness Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph
The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison
by William N. (William Nelson) Tyler
A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
by Harold Harvey
Lamarck et son OEuvre
by Emile Corra