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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 John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835
by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge
Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier
by John Algernon Owens
Robert Burns. Vol. 1, La Vie
by Auguste Angellier
Bollettino del Club Alpino Italiano 1895-96 Vol. 29 Num. 62
by Various Authors
My Life and Work
by Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
by Nat Love
Alguns homens do meu tempo: impressões litterarias
by Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho
Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
by Benjamin Harrison
The Life of Gordon, Volume I
by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Stephen Arnold Douglas
by William Garrott Brown
The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams
by John Adams, Abigail Adams
My First Summer in the Sierra
by John Muir
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work
by Heinrich Graetz
English and American tool builders
by Joseph Wickham Roe
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
The Kaiser's Memoirs
by German Emperor William II
Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900
by Mary King Waddington
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume X, Missouri Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Working With the Working Woman
by Cornelia Stratton Parker
The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors
by Bence Jones
Joseph Bonaparte Makers of History
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Philip II. of Spain
by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume
August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt: Studies and Impressions
by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers
by John Guille Millais
Margaret Sanger: an autobiography.
by Margaret Sanger
Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States
by Raphael Semmes
Far off things
by Arthur Machen
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II
by Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
by George Biddell Airy
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
by Ephraim Emerton
Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
by Sir William Bower Forwood
A New Medley of Memories
by Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair
The Cavaliers of Fortune; Or, British Heroes in Foreign Wars
by James Grant
The Romance of a Great Store
by Edward Hungerford
Great Violinists and Pianists
by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
Makers and Romance of Alabama History
by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
by Frank Harris
Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields
by M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe) Howe, Annie Fields
Recollections of the Civil War With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties
by Charles A. (Charles Anderson) Dana
My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831
by Alexandre Dumas
Alcuin of York : Lectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908
by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier
by Joseph Orton Kerbey
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
by Edmund Gosse
A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen
by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Charles Baudelaire: A Study
by Arthur Symons
Mémoires de madame de Rémusat (1/3) publiées par son petit-fils, Paul de Rémusat
by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2
by Maria Edgeworth
Journal of a Residence in America
by Fanny Kemble
Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work
by Herbert Newton Casson
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
by James Boswell
Holbein
by Beatrice Fortescue
Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition
by John Gallishaw
Les Rois Frères de Napoléon Ier Documents inédits relatifs au premier Empire
by Albert Du Casse
Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half
by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
St. Francis of Assisi
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
by George Borrow
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 3: Conflict and construction, 1800-1815
by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge
A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle
by Lady Magdalene De Lancey
Burke
by John Morley
Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay)
by Austin Dobson
Ten months in a German raider : a prisoner of war aboard the Wolf
by John Stanley Cameron
The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
by Florence Howe Hall
A Mountain Boyhood
by Joe Mills
Heroines of the Crusades
by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss
Bunyan
by James Anthony Froude
The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner
by Woodes Rogers
Ten Boys from History
by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
The Mormon Prophet and His Harem Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children
by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite
Autobiography of a Female Slave
by Martha Griffith Browne
Living Bayonets: A Record of the Last Push
by Coningsby Dawson
A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays
by Charles Bradlaugh
Sir John French: An Authentic Biography
by Cecil Chisholm
Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891
by Various Authors
Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories
by Thomas Furlong
Famous Prima Donnas
by Lewis Clinton Strang
The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller
by Sir Francis Bond Head
Abraham Lincoln
by William Eleroy Curtis
Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
by Lady Constance Lytton
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 2 being The Biographical Supplement of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Great German Composers
by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
The Story of General Gordon
by Jean Lang
Martin Luther
by Carl E. Koppenhaver
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy
by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Lachmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: The Jeanne D'Arc of India
by Michael White
Why Lincoln Laughed
by Russell H. Conwell
The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere
by M. A. (Mabel Annie) Stobart