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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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Napoleon and his court
by C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester
The Autobiography of a Thief
by Hutchins Hapgood
Life of Thomas Paine Written Purposely to Bind with His Writings
by Richard Carlile
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3), Essay 1: Robespierre
by John Morley
Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891
by Various Authors
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson, B. A.
by W. S. R. (William Stephen Raikes) Hodson
Mosby's War Reminiscences; Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns
by John Singleton Mosby
Memoirs of Mistral
by Frédéric Mistral
Boccaccio
by Hermann Hesse
Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel
by Anonymous
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
by Helen Keller
The Mysteries of Montreal: Being Recollections of a Female Physician
by Ch. (Charlotte) Führer
Wagner : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays
by Thomas Tapper
The Life of General Garibaldi Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.
by Giuseppe Garibaldi
Boswell the Biographer
by George Mallory
Life of Emanuel Swedenborg Together with a brief synopsis of his writings, both philosophical and theological
by William White
Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense. From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt
by Alexander von Humboldt
A Noble Woman: The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
by Ernest Protheroe
Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison
by W. H. (William Henry) Morgan
Van Eyck
by J. Cyril M. (James Cyril M.) Weale
Early voyages and travels in the Levant : I.—The diary of Master Thomas Dallam, 1599-1600. II.—Extracts from the diaries of Dr. John Covel, 1670-1679. With some account of the Levant Company of Turkey merchants.
by John Covel, Thomas Dallam
The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"
by Sir Albert Hastings Markham
Adventures in Journalism
by Philip Gibbs
Verdi : The Story of the Little Boy who Loved the Hand Organ
by Thomas Tapper
Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
by Ernest Lebon
With Rimington
by L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps
Life of Sir Walter Scott, with Abbotsford Notanda
by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers
Joseph Priestley
by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe
Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun
by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell
Priestley in America, 1794-1804
by Edgar Fahs Smith
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
by Various Authors
Commodore Paul Jones
by Cyrus Townsend Brady
Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West
by Russell Doubleday
The Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours of George Müller (of Bristol)
by Susannah Grace Sanger Müller
Adventures in Alaska
by Samuel Hall Young
Apologia della vita politica di F.-D. Guerrazzi
by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
Speaking of the Turks
by bey K. Ziya Mufti-zada
Lettres à Madame Viardot
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819
by Richard Lee Mason
My First Battle: A Sergeant's Story
by Adam Mickiewicz
A sketch of the life of the late Henry Cooper, barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk circuit; as also, of his father
by William Cooper
Lettres de Marie Bashkirtseff Préface de François Coppée
by Marie Bashkirtseff
In Bohemia with Du Maurier: The First of a Series of Reminiscences
by Felix Moscheles
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (7/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
The Confessions of a Collector
by William Carew Hazlitt
Life of Robert Browning
by William Sharp
Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music
by John Fielder Porte
Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 11 comprenant ses mémoires publiés par Thomas Moore
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Our Standard-Bearer; Or, The Life of General Uysses S. Grant
by Oliver Optic
An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse
Hogarth
by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story
by L. A. Abbott
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot
by William Gannaway Brownlow
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 4
by George Sand
The Lumberjack Sky Pilot
by Thomas D. (Thomas Davis) Whittles
The Making of an American
by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas
by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Recuerdos Del Tiempo Viejo
by José Zorrilla
A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2
by Florentia Wynch Sale
Fromentin
by Georges Beaume
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 20: Milan
by Giacomo Casanova
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
by Henry Hunt
Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage, 1684-7
by Henri Joutel
A Captive at Carlsruhe and Other German Prison Camps
by Joseph Lee
The adventures of Hernan Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico
by Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks
Poems: With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith
by Rebekah Smith
William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services
by Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch
The Song of the Rappahannock: Sketches of the Civil War
by Ira Seymour Dodd
Sixty Years a Bookman, With Other Recollections and Reflections
by Joseph Shaylor
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 6 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe
by Mme. Du Hausset, princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/June 1663
by Samuel Pepys
Gérôme
by Albert Keim
Mon frère et moi; souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse
by Ernest Daudet
A Blue Devil of France: Epic figures and stories of the Great War, 1914-1918
by G.-P. (Gustav-P.) Capart
Souvenirs d'un sexagénaire, Tome III
by A.-V. (Antoine-Vincent) Arnault
From flag to flag : A woman's adventures and experiences in the South during the war, in Mexico, and in Cuba
by Eliza Ripley
Os netos de Camillo
by Alberto Pimentel
Hokousaï L'art japonais au XVII Siècle
by Edmond de Goncourt
Mémoires de Marmontel (Volume 3 of 3) Mémoires d'un père pour servir à l'Instruction de ses enfans
by Jean-François Marmontel
Friedrich Nietzsche: Ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit
by Rudolf Steiner
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 3
by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable
by Jean S. Remy
From Snotty to Sub
by Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 03
by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans
Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Twenty years a fakir
by S. James Weldon