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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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Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand, Volume 4
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Autobiographical Sketches
by Annie Besant
Life in Canada
by Thomas Conant
George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago.
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Mémoires de Aimée de Coigny
by Aimée de Coigny
The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School
by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
L'abbé Sicard célèbre instituteur des sourds-muets, successeur immédiat de l'abbé de l'Épée
by Ferdinand Berthier
Cristóbal Colón y el descubrimiento de América, Tomo 2 Historia de la geografía del nuevo continente y de los progresos de la astronomía náutica en los siglos XV y XVI
by Alexander von Humboldt
Buckskin Mose Or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide.
by George W. Perrie
Trooper 3809: A Private Soldier of the Third Republic
by Lionel Decle
Hall Caine, the Man and the Novelist
by C. Fred (Charles Frederick) Kenyon
Descobrimento das Filippinas pelo navegador portuguez Fernão de Magalhães
by Caetano Alberto da Silva
Mémoires de Mme la Comtesse de Genlis
by comtesse de Stéphanie Félicité Genlis
Hector Berlioz: A Romantic Tragedy
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Rajah Brooke : the Englishman as ruler of an eastern state
by Sir Spenser St. John
The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School
by Francis La Flesche
The splendour of Asia: The story and teaching of the Buddha
by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck
Les Cent Jours (2/2) Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la vie privée, du retour et du règne de Napoléon en 1815.
by baron Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 13: Holland and Germany
by Giacomo Casanova
Parisiana Obras Completas, Vol. V
by Rubén Darío
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 05: Milan and Mantua
by Giacomo Casanova
My Life In The South
by Jacob Stroyer
Amerikan löytöretken päiväkirja
by Christopher Columbus
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 4
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Harlow Niles Higinbotham A memoir with brief autobiography and extracts from speeches and letters
by Harriet Monroe
The Lion of Poland: The Story of Paderewski
by Ruth Fox Hume, Paul Hume
Jewish Portraits
by Lady Katie Magnus
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
by Elizabeth Blackwell
Charles Edward Putney: An Appreciation
by Charles E. Putney Memorial Association
A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce
by Nancy Luce
Emin Pasha
by M. C. Plehn
The Life-Work of Flaubert, from the Russian of Merejowski
by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Arago et sa vie scientifique
by Joseph Bertrand
The Mentor: Great American Inventors, Vol. 1, Num. 29, Serial No. 29
by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce
Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782
by Lucinda Lee Orr
Holbein der jüngere
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Tome troisième
by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Erasmus
by R. C. (Richard Claverhouse) Jebb
William Ewart Gladstone
by Viscount James Bryce Bryce
Chronicles of Chicora Wood
by Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston) Pringle
Sá de Miranda e a sua Obra
by Décio Carneiro
La Vie de M. de Molière Réimpression de l'édition originale (Paris, 1705) et des pièces annexes
by Jean-Léonor Le Gallois de Grimarest
Five Years in the Alleghanies
by Jonathan Cross
Widger's Quotations from Project Gutenberg Edition of Memoirs of Napoleon
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 581, December 15, 1832
by Various Authors
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661
by Samuel Pepys
Élisabeth de Bavière, Impératrice d'Autriche Pages de journal, impressions, conversations, souvenirs
by Konstantinos Chrestomanos
Memoirs of the Princesse de Ligne, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Apolonia Helena Massalska
Sketches of the War A Series of Letters to the North Moore Street School of New York
by Charles C. Nott
A Modern Purgatory
by Carlo de Fornaro
Kuuden vuosikymmenen ajoilta: Muistelmia Suomesta
by August Schauman
Robert Fulton and the Submarine
by William Barclay Parsons
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer
by Myrta Lockett Avary
The charm of Reynolds
by James Mason
Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh in 1843 Address of Welcome, by Wilson McCandless, and Mr. Adams' Reply; together with a letter from Mr. Adams Relative to Judge Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry."
by Wilson McCandless, John Quincy Adams
Histoire de ma jeunesse
by F. (François) Arago
Fifteen Months in Dixie; Or, My Personal Experience in Rebel Prisons
by W. W. (William Worthy) Day
A boy's-eye view of the Arctic
by Kennett Longley Rawson
Confessions of a railroad signalman
by James O. (James Octavius) Fagan
A. von Menzel
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Foreign Butterflies
by James Duncan
Virgil
by W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
John Brown the Hero: Personal Reminiscences
by J. W. (Jonathan Wingate) Winkley
With the Rank and File
by Thomas J. Ford
Personal record of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
by Alfred J. Vaughan
Cesare Lombroso, a modern man of science
by Hans Kurella
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 04
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
D'Alembert
by Joseph Bertrand
Recollections of the War of 1812
by William Dunlop
Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828) La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero
by Ernesto Masi
Great Men as Prophets of a New Era
by Newell Dwight Hillis
My German Prisons Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War
by Horace Gray Gilliland
Vita di Andrea Doria, Volume II
by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
Russian Portraits
by Clare Sheridan
Aus meinem Jugendland
by Isolde Kurz
Life of David W. Patten, the First Apostolic Martyr
by Lycurgus A. (Lycurgus Arnold) Wilson
Pioneer Colored Christians
by Harriet Parks Miller
Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim
by Congo resident
"Puffing Billy" and the Prize "Rocket" or, the story of the Stephensons and our Railways.
by Helen C. (Helen Cross) Knight
George Washington Carver National Monument Junior Ranger Activity Book: The Plant Doctor
by United States. National Park Service
Battle of the Crater; and Experiences of Prison Life
by Sumner U. (Sumner Upham) Shearman
Memorial of Mrs. Lucy Gilpatrick Marsh delivered June 22, 1868.
by A. C. (Augustus Charles) Thompson
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 01
by Count Anthony Hamilton
Verkaro de V. N. Devjatnin, Libro Unua
by V. N. (Vasilij Nikolaevic) Devjatnin
Sá de Miranda Com uma carta ácerca da "Bibliographia Camilliana" de Henrique Marques
by Antero de Quental, Joaquim de Araújo, Camilo Castelo Branco
William Wilberforce, der Sklavenfreund Ein Lebensbild, für die deutsche Jugend und das deutsche Volk gezeichnet
by Hugo Oertel
The Mentor: Makers of Modern Opera, Vol. 1, Num. 47, Serial No. 47
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
An Address Delivered at the Interment of Mrs. Harriet Storrs, Consort of Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1834.
by John Codman
Christmas at Sagamore Hill with Theodore Roosevelt
by Helen Topping Miller
How we elected Lincoln : personal recollections of Lincoln and men of his time
by Abram J. (Abram Jesse) Dittenhoefer
Édes anyaföldem! : Egy nép s egy ember története (1. kötet)
by Elek Benedek
Fredrika Runeberg
by friherrinna Alexandra Gripenberg