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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 Confessions of the Celebrated Countess of Lichtenau, Late Mrs. Rietz Now Confined in the Fortress of Gloglau as a State-prisoner
by Heinrich Husen
The life of the departed : A sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Joseph Crandal, of Salsbury, preached in the Baptist chapel, Germain Street, city of St. John
by I. E. (Ingraham E.) Bill
Fogságom története
by Farkas Deák
Memories of my life : From my early days in Scotland till the present day in Adelaide
by Mrs. J. S. O. Allen
Ansgario
by Anonymous
Leivän ja seikkailun haussa: Hämäläisen mökinpojan tarina
by Aatu Koskelainen
Sairaanhoitajan maailmasta
by Sophie Mannerheim
Tähdenlento: Virolaisen runoilijattaren Koidulan elämä
by Aino Kallas
My own story
by Emmeline Pankhurst
The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
by Frank Everett Stevens
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The life of Friedrich Nietzsche
by Daniel Halévy
McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908
by Various Authors
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 2: Turgot
by John Morley
Tolstoy
by Lilian Winstanley
History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great.
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria
by Clara Tschudi
A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents
by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson
The Jesuits, 1534-1921 A History of the Society of Jesus from Its Foundation to the Present Time
by Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph) Campbell
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson
by active 1173-1215 de Brakelond Jocelin
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1
by Elizabeth Bisland
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Freiherr von Friedrich Hügel
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
by Charles Babbage
William Blake
by Arthur Symons
Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Otto Jahn
The Life of Galileo Galilei, with Illustrations of the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy Life of Kepler
by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)
by Edward Gibbon
The life of Voltaire
by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II.
by Walter Scott
Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus
by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup
Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire
by Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh
Charles Lamb
by Walter Jerrold
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
Herbert Spencer
by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
Bach
by C. F. Abdy (Charles Francis Abdy) Williams
Mary Tudor, Queen of France
by Mary Croom Brown
Life and Lillian Gish
by Albert Bigelow Paine
The Curtiss Aviation Book
by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Augustus Post
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. IV (of VI), "Adventures In The South" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
by Giacomo Casanova
Haydn
by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
My Airships; The Story of My Life
by Alberto Santos-Dumont
Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens
by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
by Maria Mitchell
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
Documents Inédits sur Alfred de Musset
by Maurice Clouard
My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt
by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) Volume 1 (of 2)
by Lady Elizabeth Vassall Fox Holland
Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work
by Charles Kendall Adams
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the Second
by Carlo Gozzi
The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3)
by Henry Fuseli
Mystics and Saints of Islam
by Claud Field
Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Walter H. (Walter Hawken) Tregellas
Darwin
by Gamaliel Bradford
Stanley's Story; Or, Through the Wilds of Africa A Thrilling Narrative of His Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Wonderful Discoveries and Amazing Achievements in the Dark Continent
by Col. A. G. Feather
Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century
by Virginia Tatnall Peacock
Confessions of an Opera Singer
by Kathleen Howard
The Youth of Goethe
by P. Hume (Peter Hume) Brown
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
by Eliezer Edwards
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
by Louis Agassiz
Running the Blockade A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War
by Thomas E. Taylor
Beethoven : The story of a little boy who was forced to practice
by Thomas Tapper
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 09 comprenant ses mémoires publiés par Thomas Moore
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie Selected and Arranged from her Letters, Diaries, and other Manuscripts
by Amelia Opie
Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome II.
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly
by Paul Gerhardt
A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.
by Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth) Zakrzewska
London Days: A Book of Reminiscences
by Arthur Warren
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II
by Earl of Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox) Bourne
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
by Earl of James Bruce Elgin
Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe
by Xavier Paoli
Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8
by William Walker
The Dickens Country
by Frederic George Kitton
Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark
by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709)
by Nicholas Rowe
Hernando Cortez Makers of History
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
William the Third
by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
by Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
by Abner Doubleday
Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha
by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden
The Life of John Bunyan
by Edmund Venables
Karl Marx
by Achille Loria
Claverhouse
by Mowbray Morris
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa
by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
The Sunny Side of the Street
by Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney) Wilder