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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
Historic Girlhoods, Part One
by Rupert Sargent Holland
Trains of Recollection Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada, and told to Arthur Hawkes
by D. B. (David Blyth) Hanna
George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers
by George Edmund Street
Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches
by Augusta Joyce Crocheron
Cronaca di Fra Salimbene parmigiano vol. I
by da Parma Salimbene
Mémoires touchant la vie et les écrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (5/6)
by C. A. (Charles Athanase) Walckenaer
Como e porque sou romancista
by José Martiniano de Alencar
A boy in the Peninsular War : the services, adventures and experiences of Robert Blakeney
by Robert Blakeney
Together
by Norman Douglas
The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls.
by Charles Rendell Mabey
Five years in New Zealand (1859 to 1864)
by Robert B. Booth
Martin Behaim aus Nürnberg. Der geistige Entdecker Amerika's
by Alexander Ziegler
Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives
by Henry Francis Cary
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1
by Various Authors
Ten Years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers, and Three Years in South Africa, in the Cape Corps Levies
by W. J. D. Gould
Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott
by William Hale White
Trapped in 'Black Russia': Letters June-November 1915
by Ruth Pierce
The Seer of Slabsides
by Dallas Lore Sharp
Ed. Manet: étude biographique et critique
by Émile Zola
A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two Parts
by Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln
by Isaac N. Arnold
The Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. A Biographical Sketch
by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 10: Auguste Comte
by John Morley
A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c.
by William Henry Whitmore
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 3 (of 4)
by Horace Walpole
Two Suffolk Friends
by Francis Hindes Groome
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and second Bishop of Tennessee : being his story of the War (1861-1865)
by C. T. (Charles Todd) Quintard
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (4/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
Rembrandt
by Mortimer Menpes
My .75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a .75m/m Battery in 1914
by Paul Lintier
A Rebel's Recollections
by George Cary Eggleston
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
by William Hayley
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 65: May 1668
by Samuel Pepys
George Romney
by George C. Williamson
St. Paul the Hero
by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones
Recollections with the Third Iowa Regiment
by Seymour D. (Seymour Dwight) Thompson
Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks
by Elias Hicks
The pleasant and surprising adventures of Robert Drury, during his fifteen years' captivity on the island of Madagascar
by Robert Drury
A Hermit's Wild Friends; or, Eighteen Years in the Woods
by Mason Augustus Walton
A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857
by Maria Germon
A Pioneer Mother
by Hamlin Garland
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 07: August/September 1660
by Samuel Pepys
The Etchings of Charles Meryon
by Campbell Dodgson
Tieni varrella tapaamia 2
by Maikki Friberg
Ricordi di un garibaldino dal 1847-48 al 1900. vol. I
by Augusto Elia
Leaves from My Journal: Third Book of the Faith-Promoting Series Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints
by Wilford Woodruff
John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884.
by Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe
A campaign in Mexico
by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Scribner
The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being the Personal Life and Memoirs of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
by James Milne
O Marquez de Pombal Lance d'olhos sobre a sua sciencia; politica e systema de administração; ideias liberaes que o dominavam; plano e primeiras tentativas democraticas
by Manuel Emídio Garcia
History of the Forty-Eighth Regiment M. V. M. During the Civil War
by Albert Plummer
Memorias de José Garibaldi, volume 2 Traduzidas do manuscripto original por Alexandre Dumas
by Giuseppe Garibaldi
The Comanches : a history of White's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Laurel Brig., Hampton Div., A.N.V., C.S.A.
by Frank M. Myers
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 10
by Louis Constant Wairy
La maison en ordre : comment un révolutionnaire devint royaliste
by Adolphe Retté
A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870 being the account of a balloon escape from the siege of Paris and a political mission to London and Vienna
by Frederic Reitlinger
Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862
by Frederick Law Olmsted
The Story of Chalmers of New Guinea
by Janet Harvey Kelman
Original letters and biographic epitomes
by J. Atwood (John Atwood) Slater
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 58: October 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Luck on the Wing: Thirteen Stories of a Sky Spy
by Elmer Haslett
Murillo
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
The war maker : Being the true story of Captain George B. Boynton
by Horace Herbert Smith
Leibniz: Zu seinem zweihunderjährigen Todestag 14. November 1916
by Wilhelm Max Wundt
Hunted Down; or, Five Days in the Fog A Thrilling Narrative of the Escape of Young Granice from a Drunken, Infuriated Mob
by Harry Granice
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 1
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 62: February 1667-68
by Samuel Pepys
A Day with Ludwig Beethoven
by May Byron
My Memory of Gladstone
by Goldwin Smith
Viestini menneiltä sukupolvilta
by Matilda Roslin-Kalliola
A Historic Sketch, Lest We Forget Company "E," 26th Ohio Infantry in the War for the Union, 1861-65
by Walden Kelly
My three years in Manipur : and escape from the recent mutiny
by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood
Chapter of Autobiography
by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago as Shown by the Diary of Joseph Lye, Shoemaker
by Fred A. Gannon
The Mentor: Napoleon Bonaparte, Serial No. 38
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
Récit d'une excursion de l'impératrice Marie-Louise aux glaciers de Savoie en juillet 1814
by baron de Claude-François Méneval
Du Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical Sketch
by Hervey Allen
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 53: May 1667
by Samuel Pepys
A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison
by Paul Jennings
The Story of My Life — Volume 05
by Georg Ebers
Franz Hals
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Biografia di Giuseppe Garibaldi
by Gian Battista Cuneo
A funeral sermon for the Rev. Joseph Kinghorn preached in St. Mary's Meeting-house, Norwich, on Sunday afternoon, September 9th, 1832
by John Alexander
Matti Pohto: Vanhojen suomalaisten kirjain pelastaja
by Artturi H. (Artturi Heikki) Virkkunen
The diggings, the bush and Melbourne : or, Reminiscences of three years' wanderings in Victoria
by James Armour
Sortovuosilta: Poliittisia muistelmia
by Konni Zilliacus
Sotamuistelmani 1914-1918
by Erich Ludendorff
The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864 A statement of the erroneous claims made by General Schofield, and an exposition of the blunder which opened the battle
by John K. Shellenberger
Muistelmia Kiinasta
by Wilhelmiina Arpiainen
Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q
by Frederic Boase
Emily Brontë
by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson