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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
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
by Thomas Henry Huxley
William Clayton's Journal A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of "Mormon" Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
by William Clayton
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods
by Andrew Kippis
How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves
by Orison Swett Marden
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 40: November/December 1665
by Samuel Pepys
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
by William Wells Brown
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 04
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Josephus
by Norman Bentwich
Robert F. Murray (Author of the Scarlet Gown): His Poems; with a Memoir
by R. F. (Robert Fuller) Murray
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1.
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
Four American Leaders
by Charles William Eliot
Jacques Cartier
by H. Emile (Henri Emile) Chevalier
Biographies of Working Men
by Grant Allen
White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor of Calabar
by A. J. Bueltmann
A Belle of the Fifties Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling
by Virginia Clay-Clopton
Noémie Hollemechette: Journal d'une petite réfugiée belge
by Magdeleine Du Genestoux
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 08
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Recollections The Reminiscences of the Busy Life of One Who Has Played the Varied Parts of Sailor, Author & Lecturer
by Frank Thomas Bullen
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 3)
by François Guizot
Leonardo da Vinci als Ingenieur und Philosoph Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Technik und der induktiven Wissenschaften
by Hermann Grothe
Frau Pauline Brater: Lebensbild einer deutschen Frau
by Agnes Sapper
Indian Child Life
by Charles A. Eastman
Apologia pro vita sua
by John Henry Newman
An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
by Anthony Trollope
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 1 (of 2)
by Frank Harris
De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera
by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)
by Mark Twain
Obras Completas de Luis de Camões, Tomo II
by Luís de Camões
Records of a Girlhood
by Fanny Kemble
Percy Bysshe Shelley
by John Addington Symonds
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04
by Thomas Carlyle
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I.
by Walter Scott
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers
by Elbert Hubbard
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women
by John Lord
Kepler
by Walter W. (Walter William) Bryant
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
by Sarah Tytler
Reminiscences of the Guilford Grays, Co. B., 27th N.C. Regiment
by John A. (John Alexander) Sloan
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 01
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Synge and the Ireland of His Time
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 09
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Oração funebre recitada nas exequias do Illm.^o e Exm.^o Sr. Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha
by António Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcelos
Les Rues de Paris, tome deuxième Biographies, portraits, récits et légendes
by Bathild Bouniol
L'Illustration, No. 0051, 17 Février 1844
by Various Authors
Vankien ystävä: Piirteitä Mathilda Wreden elämästä ja toiminnasta
by Evy Fogelberg
Saksalaisten sotavankina : Muistelmia ja kuvia
by Kaarlo Takalampi
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics)
by Benjamin Franklin
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
by Georg Brandes
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling
by Ambrose Bierce
Thomas Chalmers
by William Garden Blaikie
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1
by Rupert Hughes
George Borrow: The Man and His Books
by Edward Thomas
The Rough Riders
by Theodore Roosevelt
Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave
by Charles Ball
Chronique de 1831 à 1862, Tome 3 (de 4)
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
A Suse : Journal des fouilles, 1884-1886
by Jane Dieulafoy
Perugino
by Selwyn Brinton
Dr. Grenfell's Parish: The Deep Sea Fisherman
by Norman Duncan
Concerning "Bully" Hayes From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902
by Louis Becke
Histoire du Chevalier d'Iberville (1663-1706)
by Adam Charles Gustave Desmazures
The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Päiväkirja matkaltani Venäjällä, ja käynti Leo Tolstoin luona keväällä 1899
by Arvid Järnefelt
All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance
by Francesco Petrarca
The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
by baron de Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin Marbot
Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon
by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II
by Thomas De Quincey
Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 1 of 2)
by Bertha von Suttner
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1853-1866)
by Mark Twain
Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works
by Edward S. (Edward Singleton) Holden
Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans
by Sherwin Cody
Nietzsche, sein Leben und seine Lehre
by Karl Heckel
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
by Margaret Fuller
A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study
by William Tuckwell
Washington Irving
by Charles Dudley Warner
Thoughts upon the African slave trade
by John Newton
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The Book of Missionary Heroes
by Basil Mathews
Sir Walter Scott
by George Saintsbury
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
by Helen Campbell
The Secrets of the German War Office
by Armgaard Karl Graves
The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address
by Abraham Lincoln
Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian
by Canniff Haight
When I was your age
by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover
by William Maxwell Evarts
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 18: September/October 1662
by Samuel Pepys
Scenas do século XVIII em Portugal
by Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho
Poetas do Minho I - João Penha
by Alberto Pimentel
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 57: September 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67
by Samuel Pepys
Sanomalehtimiesajoiltani
by Juhani Aho