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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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Matthew Calbraith Perry: A Typical American Naval Officer
by William Elliot Griffis
Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1
by Edward FitzGerald
Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand, Volume 5
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Mga Dakilang Pilipino; o ang kaibigan ng mga nagaaral
by Jose N. Sevilla
Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome V.
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A Critique
by Hill Peebles Wilson
The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works
by Sadakichi Hartmann
The Story of Wellington
by Harold Wheeler
Wagner and His Music-Dramas
by Robert C. Bagar
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time
by David Masson
The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume I)
by Paul Ambroise Bigandet
Brief Records of the Independent Church at Beccles, Suffolk Including biographical notices of its ministers,and some account of the rise of nonconformity in the East Anglian counties
by S. Wilton (Samuel Wilton) Rix
Lotus Buds
by Amy Carmichael
The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully
by William Wallace Cook
Leonardo da Vinci, Pathfinder of Science
by Henry S. Gillette
Recollections of Old Liverpool
by James Stonehouse
The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.
by Isabella Graham
Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Michelangelo
by Edward C. Strutt
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 1 (of 3)
by Horace Walpole
Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker
by Princess Catherine Radziwill
Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout being a true an exact history of all the sanguinary combats and hair-breadth escapes of the most famous scout and spy America ever produced.
by James W. (James William) Buel
Rembrandt and His Etchings A Compact Record of the Artist's Life, His Work and his Time. With the complete Chronological List of his Etchings
by Louis A. (Louis Arthur) Holman
Vercingétorix
by Camille Jullian
Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men
by Mary Agnes Hamilton
Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 3. (of 3) Abridged and Fully Illustrated
by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland
Admiral Farragut
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel
by John Yeardley
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7)
by Arthur Thomas Malkin
The great diamond hoax : and other stirring incidents in the life of Asbury Harpending
by Asbury Harpending
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
by Suetonius
Journaux intimes
by Charles Baudelaire
Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals
by William Franklin Gore Shanks
Spenser
by R. W. (Richard William) Church
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
by W. H. (William Henry) Davies
Queen Elizabeth Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
The Grimké sisters : Sarah and Angelina Grimké, the first American women advocates of abolition and woman's rights
by Catherine H. Birney
The Red Book of Heroes
by Mrs. Lang
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
by Simon Newcomb
Wesley's Designated Successor The Life, Letters, and Literary Labours of the Rev. John William Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire
by L. (Luke) Tyerman
The Poetical Works of James Beattie
by James Beattie
Eli and Sibyl Jones, Their Life and Work
by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones
The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
by Sir Joseph Pope
The Life Story of an Old Rebel
by John Denvir
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
by Mrs. Charles Clacy
Verdadera historia de los sucesos de la conquista de la Nueva-España (1 de 3)
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2)
by George Ticknor Curtis
Simón Bolívar (The Liberator) Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Father of Five Nations, a Sketch of His Life and His Work
by Guillermo A. (Guillermo Antonio) Sherwell
A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins
by Anonymous
The Oxford Methodists : Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others
by L. (Luke) Tyerman
Richard Strauss
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Walt Whitman in Mickle Street
by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller
Vie de Jeanne d'Arc. Vol. 2 de 2
by Anatole France
The battle of the press : as told in the story of the life of Richard Carlile by his daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell
by Theophila Carlile Campbell
In the Shadow of Death
by P. H. (Pieter Hendrick) Kritzinger, R. D. (Roelof Daniel) Mc Donald
Rashi
by Maurice Liber
Ten Tudor Statesmen
by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes
Wagner at Home
by Judith Gautier
Ryerson Memorial Volume Prepared on the occasion of the unveiling of the Ryerson statute in the grounds of the Education department on the Queen's birthday, 1889
by J. George (John George) Hodgins
A forgotten Prince of Wales
by Henry Curties
Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi
by Maksim Gorky
Caught by the Turks
by Francis Yeats-Brown
Œuvres Complètes de Chamfort (Tome 1) Recueillies et publiées avec une notice historique sur la vie et les écrits de l'auteur.
by Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort
Napoléon
by Élie Faure
Rosa Bonheur
by François Crastre
My Experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles
by Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich Tret'iakov
Leaves from St. John Chrysostom
by Saint John Chrysostom
William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery
by Bayard Tuckerman
The Story of a Life
by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt
by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall
Memoirs of the Late War, Vol 1 (of 2) Comprising the Personal Narrative of Captain Cooke, of the 43rd Regiment Light Infantry; the History of the Campaign of 1809 in Portugal, by the Earl of Munster; and a Narrative of the Campaign of 1814 in Holland, by Lieut. T. W. D. Moodie, H. P. 21st Fusileers
by Sir John Henry Cooke, J. W. Dunbar (John Wedderburn Dunbar) Moodie, Earl of George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence Munster
The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918
by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc.
by Grenville Mellen Dodge
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
by Various Authors
Over Periscope Pond : Letters from two American girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918
by Esther Sayles Root, Marjorie Crocker
Recollections of a Pioneer
by J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson
Antonio Stradivari
by Horace Petherick
Souvenirs de la duchesse de Dino publiés par sa petite fille, la Comtesse Jean de Castellane.
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
Life of Thomas à Becket
by Henry Hart Milman
Life of Haydn
by Ludwig Nohl
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 02: a Cleric in Naples
by Giacomo Casanova
Random Shots from a Rifleman
by J. (John) Kincaid
George Borrow in East Anglia
by William A. (William Alfred) Dutt
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
by Various Authors
Manuscrit de mil huit cent quatorze, trouvé dans les voitures impériales prises à Waterloo, contenant l'histoire des six derniers mois du règne de Napoléon
by baron Agathon-Jean-François Fain
With Zola in England: A Story of Exile
by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Chitta Ranjan
by Sukumar Ranjan Das
