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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 Life of David Belasco; Vol. 1
by William Winter, William Jefferson Winter
Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 1. (of 3) Abridged and Fully Illustrated
by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland
Turgenev: A Study
by Edward Garnett
His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII
by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
by Henry Bascom Smith
The Story of Napoleon
by Harold Wheeler
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice
by Leslie Stephen
Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study
by W. G. (William George) Waters
Women of History: Selected from the Writings of Standard Authors
by Various Authors
The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910
by Augustin Fabre
Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade
by William Surtees
Biographies of distinguished scientific men. First series
by F. (François) Arago
Voltaire
by John Morley
Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I
by Charles Lever
The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
by Edward Osler
The Friends of Voltaire
by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beethoven, a character study; together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven
by George Alexander Fischer
George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians
by T. Martin Wood
Henrietta Maria
by Henrietta Haynes
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
by Harold Begbie
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
by Fanny Burney
Prisoner for Blasphemy
by G. W. (George William) Foote
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10)
by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Heroes of Science: Physicists
by William Garnett
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851
by Various Authors
Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch
by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 32: December 1664
by Samuel Pepys
James Madison
by Sydney Howard Gay
Famous Americans of Recent Times
by James Parton
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
![Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638c3e0972dc5c80ef6e4ba/cover.jpg)
Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita
by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi
Adventures in the Philippine Islands
by Paul P. de La Gironière
Handel
by Romain Rolland
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It
by James J. (James John) Davis
Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag
by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
by Hugh Gibson
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
by active 1600 William Kemp
Shakspere, Personal Recollections
by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce
The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
by Louis Aubrey Wood
Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography
by Andy Adams
Forty-Six Years in the Army
by John McAllister Schofield
The Story of John Wesley, Told to Boys and Girls
by Marianne Kirlew
Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison
by Hattie E. Macomber
Carry On: Letters in War-Time
by Coningsby Dawson
The History of the Catnach Press at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London
by Charles Hindley
Working With the Hands Being a Sequel to "Up from Slavery," Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee
by Booker T. Washington
Eighteen months in the war zone : the record of a woman's work on the western front
by Kate John Finzi
Memories, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher
by Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher
The Blackmore Country
by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters
by Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849
by Various Authors
Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814)
by James Anthony Gardner
Talks with Tolstoi
by Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer
Turner
by W. Cosmo (William Cosmo) Monkhouse
The Gypsy's Parson: his experiences and adventures
by Lincolnshire rector of Ruckland George Hall
Giacomo Puccini
by Wakeling W. Dry
Looking Back
by Sir Seymour John Fortescue
Purcell
by John F. Runciman
Reminiscences of the King of Roumania
by Mite Kremnitz
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak
by Henriette McDougall
Allan Ramsay
by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Velazquez
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Santa Teresa: An Appreciation With Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings
by Alexander Whyte, Saint of Avila Teresa
Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième série, troisième volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt
Brahms and some of his works
by Pitts Sanborn
The Scout and Ranger Being the Personal Adventures of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio cavalry
by James Pike
Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway
by James Bayard Clark
Life in a Tank
by Richard Haigh
The early life of Abraham Lincoln: containing many unpublished documents and unpublished reminiscences of Lincoln's early friends
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J., 1834-1851 Edited, with Extracts from the Diary of the Latter
by Duke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington
Mémoires de Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police Générale Tome I
by duc d'Otrante Joseph Fouché
Home Life on an Ostrich Farm
by Mrs. Annie Martin
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
English Men of Letters: Crabbe
by Alfred Ainger
Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay
by Benjamin Rhodes
Saint Paul
by Emile Baumann
Joseph Conrad
by Hugh Walpole
Joseph Haydn: Servant and Master
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 08: Convent Affairs
by Giacomo Casanova
Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Meissonier
by Henri Barbusse
Finding Themselves The Letters of an American Amy Chief Nurse in the British Hospital in France
by Julia C. (Julia Catherine) Stimson
Extracts from the Diary of William Bray
by William Bray
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
by Elbert Hubbard
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904
by Mary King Waddington
Goethes Briefe an Leipziger Freunde
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leighton
by A. L. (Alfred Lys) Baldry
De Reis om de Wereld
by Charles Darwin
The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
by Thomas Houston
Through the school: The experiences of a mill boy in securing an education
by Frederic Kenyon Brown
Vigée Le Brun
by Haldane Macfall
My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19
by Théophile Gautier