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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
Histoire de Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre
by Théodore Duret
Twenty-five years in the Secret Service: The recollections of a spy
by Henri Le Caron
Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown-stealer, 1618-1680
by Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Daniel Boone
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland
by Abigail Stanley Hanna
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell
À terre & en l'air... Mémoires du Géant
by Félix Nadar
Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family
by Charles Clinton Nourse
In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France
by Edward Alva Trueblood
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 4 (of 7)
by Arthur Thomas Malkin
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
by Various Authors
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871
by Alphonse Daudet
Dr. Arne and Rule, Britannia
by William Hayman Cummings
Memoirs of Eighty Years
by Thomas Gordon Hake
Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888)
by William Henry Hurlbert
Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude
by William Forbes-Mitchell
Pope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and Conjectures
by Joseph Hunter
The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms
by Alexander Maclaren
Memory's Storehouse Unlocked, True Stories Pioneer Days In Wetmore and Northeast Kansas
by John T. Bristow
Great Ralegh
by Hugh De Sélincourt
Beleaguered in Pekin: The Boxer's War Against the Foreigner
by Robert Coltman
The Life of Daniel De Foe
by George Chalmers
Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812
by active 1812 James Reynolds
Leaves from the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy Nevill
by Lady Dorothy Nevill
Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (2 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888)
by William Henry Hurlbert
The Struggle for Imperial Unity: Recollections & Experiences
by George T. (George Taylor) Denison
Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857
by A. R. D. (Alfred Robert Davidson) Mackenzie
Some Noble Sisters
by Edmund Lee
Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 13 Comprenant ses mémoires publiés par Thomas Moore
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
by Erskine Childers
Sebastian Bach
by Reginald Lane Poole
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 (of 7)
by Arthur Thomas Malkin
Labor's Martyrs: Haymarket 1887, Sacco and Vanzetti 1927
by Vito Marcantonio
Into the Jaws of Death
by Jack O'Brien
A Life of St. John for the Young
by George Ludington Weed
Het dichtste bij de Zuidpool De Aarde en haar Volken, 1909
by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Station Amusements in New Zealand
by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
Gouverneur Morris
by Theodore Roosevelt
Th. M. Dostojewsky: Eine biographische Studie
by Nina Hoffmann
Heroines of French Society in the Court, the Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration
by Mrs. (Catherine Mary Charlton) Bearne
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885
by Various Authors
Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916 From Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years
by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer
Murillo
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824.
by Daniel Collins
General Wauchope
by F.S.A. Scot. William Baird
Louise, Queen of Prussia
by Heinrich Merz
The Mentor: American Mural Painters, vol. 2, Num 15, Serial No. 67, September 15, 1914
by Arthur Hoeber
From Bull Run to Appomattox: A Boy's View
by Luther W. (Luther Wesley) Hopkins
Our Irish Theatre: A chapter of autobiography
by Lady Gregory
Napoléon: La dernière phase
by Earl of Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery
Personal reminiscences of early days in California, with other sketches : to which is added the story of his attempted assassination by a former associate on the supreme bench of the state
by Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson) Field, George C. (George Congdon) Gorham
Sterne
by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
Norman Macleod
by John Wellwood
Schillers Flucht von Stuttgart und Aufenthalt in Mannheim von 1782-1785
by Andreas Streicher
Indian Biography; Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters
by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher
Fragonard
by Haldane Macfall
A Group of Famous Women: stories of their lives
by Edith Horton
One Year at the Russian Court: 1904-1905
by Renée Gaudin de Villaine Maud
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832
by Various Authors
Dr. Southwood Smith: A Retrospect
by Gertrude Hill Lewes
Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment
by John G. B. (John Gregory Bishop) Adams
The Life of Gen. Thos. J. Jackson, "Stonewall" For the Young (Fourth Reader Grade), in Easy Words
by Mary L. (Mary Lynn) Williamson
Journal des Goncourt (Troisième série, deuxième volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
The Star-Spangled Banner
by John A. Carpenter
From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It Giving My Exciting Experiences as a "Hobo"
by John (John R.) Peele
Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How
by William Walsham How
Alessandro Manzoni, Studio Biografico Letture fatte alla Taylorian Institution di Oxford nel maggio dell'anno 1878, notevolmente ampliate
by Angelo De Gubernatis
Portraits of Dr. William Harvey
by Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)
The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief
by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
Franz Hals
by Edgcumbe Staley
Reminiscences of the Civil War
by Cora Mitchel
Journal d'une femme de cinquante ans (2/2)
by marquise de Henriette Lucie Dillon La Tour du Pin Gouvernet
Aus Goethes Frühzeit Bruchstücke eines Commentares zum jungen Goethe
by Wilhelm Scherer
Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation
by Alexander Whyte
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 6
by Madame de Montespan
The Happy Hunting-Grounds
by Kermit Roosevelt
Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso
by Charles Barnard
A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
by George Sampson
Colonel Washington
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Romney
by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind
Zola
by Émile Faguet
Memoir of a Brother
by Thomas Hughes
James Cutbush, an American Chemist, 1788-1823
by Edgar Fahs Smith
Two war years in Constantinople : sketches of German and Young Turkish ethics and politics
by Harry Stürmer
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)
by Samuel Strickland
"My Visit to Tolstoy": Five Discourses
by Joseph Krauskopf
Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War
by James Harrison Wilson
La Marquise de Boufflers et son fils, le chevalier de Boufflers
by Gaston Maugras
