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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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Life and bloody career of the executed criminal, James Copeland, the great Southern land pirate
by J. R. S. (James Robert Soda) Pitts
Thomas Reid
by Alexander Campbell Fraser
Recollections of a Long Life
by John Stoughton
George Morland: Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work
by E. D. (Edward William Dirom) Cuming
George Sand
by Justin McCarthy
Renan, Taine, Michelet: Les maîtres de l'histoire
by Gabriel Monod
Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery
by Ezra Knight Parker
Isabelle Eberhardt, ou, la Bonne nomade: d'après des documents inédits suivie de Mektoub!... (cétait écrit!...): œuvre posthume
by Paul Vigné d'Octon, Isabelle Eberhardt
Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger
by Walter Bates
Kindheit: Autobiographische Novelle
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana, y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo
by Agostinho Manuel de Vasconcelos
The War; "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them
by James H. (James Harvey) Wood
A Sketch of the Life and Times of Judge Haliburton
by R. G. (Robert Grant) Haliburton
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 56: August 1667
by Samuel Pepys
My Mission to London, 1912-1914
by Fürst von Karl Max Lichnowsky
Erinnerungen eines Achtundvierzigers
by Stephan Born
John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V.
by John Call Dalton
Goodbird the Indian: His Story
by Edward Goodbird, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson
Ferdinand Lassalle: Eine Würdigung des Lehrers und Kämpfers
by Eduard Bernstein
A Dominie's Log
by Alexander Sutherland Neill
Oeuvres complètes, tome 1
by Laurence Sterne
Américo Vespucio
by G. (Gregorio) Pérez Gomar
Meine Lebens-Erinnerungen - Band 3
by Adam Oehlenschläger
Panegyrico de Luiz de Camões
by J. M. Latino (José Maria Latino) Coelho
Le voyageur étonné
by Adolphe Retté
The Story of a Peninsular Veteran Sergeant in the Forty-Third Light Infantry, during the Peninsular War
by Anonymous
A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems
by Dennison Woodcock
As donatarias d'Alemquer Historia das Rainhas de Portugal e da sua casa e estado
by João Pereira Franco Monteiro
The Mentor: Guynemer, The Wingèd Sword of France, Vol. 6, Num. 18, Serial No. 166, November 1, 1918
by Howard W. (Howard Willard) Cook
Velazquez
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Elämäni
by Pietari Päivärinta
The Life of Col. James Gardiner
by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Kaarle XII:n historia
by Voltaire
Gearr-sgeoil air Sir Seoras Uilleam Ros
by Alexander Fraser
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 753, June 1, 1878
by Various Authors
Elias Lönnrotin matkat I: 1828-1839
by Elias Lönnrot
The faithful servant A sermon, preached in St. Peter's, Southborough, on occasion of the death of the Rev. Stephen Langston
by Edward Hoare
Mitt lif och lefverne
by Albert Engström
Abraham Poppius : elämäkerta ja runot
by Abraham Poppius, A. H. Bergholm
Meine Lebens-Erinnerungen - Band 4
by Adam Oehlenschläger
Alexis Kivi och hans roman "Seitsemän veljestä"
by Arvid Mörne
Napoleon
by Is. (Israël) Querido
Punainen lentohävittäjä
by Freiherr von Manfred Richthofen
Diderot
by Y. (Yrjö) Hirn
Kulkurielämää: Nuoruudenmuistelmia
by Jack London
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by William Godwin
Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit (Jg. 26, 1879) Neue Folge
by Various Authors
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2
by Harry Furniss
Albert Gallatin
by John Austin Stevens
What Nietzsche Taught
by Willard Huntington Wright
Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The Facts About Shakespeare
by William Allan Neilson, Ashley Horace Thorndike
"Brother Bosch", an Airman's Escape from Germany
by Gerald Featherstone Knight
A Poor Man's House
by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
Émile Verhaeren
by Stefan Zweig
Romain Rolland: The Man and His Work
by Stefan Zweig
The Greater Love
by George T. McCarthy
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
by George Frisbie Hoar
![Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638bc4b972dc5c80ef5cf1c/cover.jpg)
Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman
by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
Music and Some Highly Musical People
by James M. Trotter
The Story of Commodore John Barry
by Martin I. J. (Martin Ignatius Joseph) Griffin
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete
by Madame de Montespan
The Emancipation of South America
by Bartolomé Mitre
Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters
by Charles Darwin
Henry James
by Rebecca West
Victorian worthies : sixteen biographies
by George Henry Blore
A Magician Among the Spirits
by Harry Houdini
The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
by Mary Newton Stanard
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune
by Francis St. Clair
Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century: Literary Portraits
by Georg Brandes
Darius the Great Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
Locke
by Thomas Fowler
The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Le lettere di Michelangelo Buonarroti
by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Patrick Henry
by Moses Coit Tyler
Through These Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer
by Lauren Ann Isaacson
An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville
by Ernest Brehaut
Michael Faraday, Man of Science
by Walter Jerrold
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III.
by Walter Scott
Garcia the Centenarian and His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science
by M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay
The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More
by Frederic Seebohm
The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427
by Johannes Schiltberger
20 hrs., 40 min. : our flight in the Friendship : the American girl, first across the Atlantic by air, tells her story
by Amelia Earhart
My Experiences as an Executioner
by James Berry
Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man; A Study in Christian Integration
by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday
by Henry Charles Lahee
Famous Indian Chiefs Their Battles, Treaties, Sieges, and Struggles with the Whites for the Possession of America
by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston
Queens of the French Stage
by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams
The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2)
by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks
by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth
Mrs. Gaskell
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Selections From Josephus
by Flavius Josephus
Model Women
by William Anderson