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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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Vie de Christophe Colomb
by baron de Pierre-Marie-Joseph Bonnefoux
L'oeuvre du chevalier Andrea de Nerciat (1/2)
by Andréa de Nerciat
Auguste Rodin Mit 96 Vollbildern
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rambles of a Naturalist
by John D. (John Davidson) Godman
Sir Henry Irving—A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum
by Percy Fitzgerald
The Nursery, No. 165. September, 1880, Vol. 28 A Monthly Magazine For Youngest Readers
by Various Authors
The story of Ida: epitaph on an Etrurian tomb
by Francesca Alexander
My Escape from Germany
by Eric A. Keith
An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions And of the Late Discovery of Ancient American Records
by Orson Pratt
Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist"
by Charles T. (Charles Talbot) Porter
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 3
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters
by Lady Clara Rayleigh
Mémoires de Marmontel (Volume 2 of 3) Mémoires d'un Père pour servir à l'Instruction de ses enfans
by Jean-François Marmontel
The Captured Scout of the Army of the James A Sketch of the Life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the Twenty-fourth Mass. Regiment
by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull
Columbus: De ontdekker van Amerika
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Flower-Patch Among the Hills
by Flora Klickmann
Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, at Northampton and Pooshee plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan; with two contemporary reports from federal officials.
by Susan R. (Susan Ravenel) Jervey, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Charlotte St. J. (Charlotte St. Julien) Ravenel
Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
by Old Elizabeth
Giordano Bruno
by Walter Pater
Canadian Wild Flowers: Selections from the Writings of Miss Helen M. Johnson
by Helen M. (Helen Mar) Johnson
A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre
by Matilda Sager
Les pianistes célèbres: silhouettes & médaillons
by A. (Antoine) Marmontel
My Monks of Vagabondia
by Andress Floyd
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, margrave de Bareith. Tome 2
by Margrave of Bayreuth consort of Friedrich Margravine Wilhelmine
John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 2: Religious and Scriptural The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, Classified
by Dougal Graham
Nicolas Foucquet, surintendant des finances
by Arthur de Marsy
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 2
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
Arizona's yesterday : Being the narrative of John H. Cady, pioneer
by John H. (John Henry) Cady, Basil Woon
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
by Sarah Raymond Herndon
The Independent Church of God of the Juda Tribe of Israel: The Black Jews As a fade from black to pure white
by Allan Wilson Cook
Gentlemen rovers
by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
Als U-Boots-Kommandant gegen England
by Freiherr von Georg-Günther Forstner
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 07
by Louis Constant Wairy
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 1
by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz
The Foundling; or, The Child of Providence
by J. (John) Church
War Stories for my Grandchildren
by John Watson Foster
My Arctic journal: a year among ice-fields and Eskimos
by Josephine Diebitsch Peary
Buffalo Bill: Helten Fra Prærien
by Roger Nielsen
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 7
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
My Two Countries
by Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor Astor
The martyrdom of Nurse Cavell The life story of the victim of Germany's most barbarous crime
by William Thomson Hill
History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
by R. C. (Richard C.) Rankin
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 3
by Madame de Montespan
"Morgan's Men," a Narrative of Personal Experiences
by Henry Lane Stone
Rembrandt
by Kurt Pfister
Briefe aus Frankfurt und Paris 1848-1849 (1/2)
by Friedrich von Raumer
Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 3 Kuvauksia
by Anders Ramsay
Schumann
by Richard Batka
Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner Being an Ephemeris Regularly Kept by an Officer of the Confederate States Army
by Beckwith West
Ramalho Ortigão
by Hemetério Arantes
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 37: August 1665
by Samuel Pepys
Reproduction, par les procédés héliographiques Motteroz, du Carnet de Robespierre trouvé sur lui au moment de son arrestation
by Maximilien Robespierre
The Grey Wave
by A. Hamilton (Arthur Hamilton) Gibbs
Lauri Stenbäck
by Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä
Les condamnés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Récit de deux évadés
by Paschal Grousset, François Jourde
An Edinburgh Eleven: Pencil Portraits from College Life
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman written during his expedition to the Kittar Mountains, between Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea, 1891
by Herbert Edward Pretyman
Carlo Darwin
by Michele Lessona
The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment by Chilian Convicts
by captain of the bark Florida Charles H. Brown
Lordi Clive
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Richard Wagner
by Bruno Nurmi
Elämäni taipaleelta : Muistelmia
by Viktor Lounasmaa
Life of St. Francis of Assisi
by Paul Sabatier
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
by Mary Prince
The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford
by Baron Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, 1844-1853 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Memoir of Jane Austen
by James Edward Austen-Leigh
Franz Liszt
by James Huneker
The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21
by George Berkeley
The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson
by Robert Southey
Brief Lives, Vol. 1
by John Aubrey
Luther, vol. 4 of 6
by Hartmann Grisar
Talleyrand: A Biographical Study
by Joseph McCabe
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2)
by William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik
Home Life of Great Authors
by Hattie Tyng Griswold
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
by Van Wyck Brooks
Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by William Howitt
Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph
by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Mrs. Julian Marshall
Stanley in Africa The Wonderful Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Great African Explorer, and Other Travelers, Pioneers and Missionaries
by James P. (James Penny) Boyd
An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections
by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880
by John Morley
Caesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance
by John Leslie Garner
Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives
by George Müller
The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett
by Moncure Daniel Conway
The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852
by Various Authors
The Story of a Pioneer
by Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Garver Jordan
The works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) : Separate memoirs
by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour
The book of the ladies Illustrious Dames: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Régime
by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme
My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education
by Hugh Miller
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 05 (of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
by Giorgio Vasari
Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Francis Hobart Herrick