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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 life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton. Volume I
by Mrs. Russell Barrington
Erinnerungen an Leo N. Tolstoi
by grafinia A. A. (Aleksandra Andreevna) Tolstaia
Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories
by Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) Merrick
William Harvey
by Sir D'Arcy Power
Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley")
by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death
by Franz von Dingelstedt
Knut Hamsun
by Hanna Astrup Larsen
My Recollections
by Jules Massenet
The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 2 (of 2)
by L. (Luke) Tyerman
Memoirs of Life and Literature
by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2
by John James Audubon
Gibbon
by James Cotter Morison
Historical Characters: Mackintosh, Talleyrand, Canning, Cobbett, Peel
by Baron Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer
Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher
by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe
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The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life
by S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts
Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)
by John Ireland, John Nichols
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Records of Later Life
by Fanny Kemble
Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives
by George S. McWatters
Musical Criticisms
by Arthur Johnstone
Peter the Great
by Jacob Abbott
A Vagabond's Odyssey being further reminiscences of a wandering sailor-troubadour in many lands
by A. (Arnold) Safroni-Middleton
Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books
by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero
by Suetonius
Portraits in Plaster, from the Collection of Laurence Hutton
by Laurence Hutton
Youth and Egolatry
by Pío Baroja
The Ladies of the White House; Or, in the Home of the Presidents Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present Time—1789–1881
by Laura C. (Laura Carter) Holloway
Memories grave and gay
by Florence Howe Hall
My Three Years in America
by Graf von Johann Heinrich Bernstorff
Benedetto Croce: An Introduction to His Philosophy
by Raffaello Piccoli
Deutsche Lebensbilder
by Heinrich von Treitschke
Histoire de Marie Stuart
by Jean-Marie Dargaud
The Days Before Yesterday
by Lord Frederic Hamilton
Ulysses S. Grant
by Walter Allen
Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 2 (of 2) : Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761
by Mrs. (Elizabeth) Montagu
Biography of Percival Lowell
by A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence) Lowell
Heroines of Service Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams
by Mary Rosetta Parkman
Daniel Defoe
by William Minto
Le Maréchal de Richelieu (1696-1788) d'après les mémoires contemporains et des documents inédits
by Paul d' Estrée
Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.
by John Gerardus Fagg
Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Henry Glassford Bell
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7)
by Arthur Thomas Malkin
Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet
by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell
Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian: A Memoir
by T. B. (Thomas Boyles) Murray
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
by Edward Robins
The private life of Henry Maitland: A record dictated by J. H.
by Morley Roberts
Pride and Passion: Robert Burns, 1759-1796
by J. De Lancey (John De Lancey) Ferguson
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (Stanhope Historical Essay 1901)
by R. W. (Robert William) Seton-Watson
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884
by Various Authors
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7)
by Arthur Thomas Malkin
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848
by Various Authors
Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 12 comprenant ses mémoires publiés par Thomas Moore
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Out of the briars : an autobiography and sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Connecticut volunteers
by A. H. (Alexander Herritage) Newton
Reminiscences of Queensland, 1862-1869
by William Henry Corfield
The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)
by James Augustus St. John
My leper friends : An account of personal work among lepers, and of their daily life in India
by Alice M. Hayes
An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Three years in Tristan da Cunha
by Katherine Mary Barrow
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
by Alexander Brady
Διονυσίου Σολωμού - Άπαντα τα Ευρισκόμενα
by Dionysios Solomos
Pope Pius the Tenth
by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
The Diplomatists of Europe
by M. (Jean Baptiste Honoré Raymond) Capefigue
Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I.
by Lewis G. (Lewis George) Janes
Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America
by George Bancroft
The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar.
by active 1849-1853 William G. Allen
Fifteen Years with the Outcast
by Fflorens Roberts
Madame de Staël
by Bella Duffy
Sainte Beuve et ses inconnues
by A. J. Pons
To and Through Nebraska
by Frances I. Sims Fulton
Greuze
by Alys Eyre Macklin
Monk
by Julian Stafford Corbett
The Circe of the deserts
by Paule Henry-Bordeaux
L'esclave religieux, et ses avantures
by Antoine Quartier
A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs
by Laurence Hutton
Biographie des Sagamos illustres de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1848)
by Maximilien (François Marie Uncas Maximilien) Bibaud
Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island
by James D. (James Davis) Knowles
Rossetti
by H. C. (Henry Currie) Marillier
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
by William James Stillman
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
by Various Authors
Lord Elgin
by John George Bourinot
The Memoirs of Maria Stella (Lady Newborough)
by Baroness Maria Stella Petronilla Ungern-Sternberg
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 557, July 14, 1832
by Various Authors
Here, There and Everywhere
by Lord Frederic Hamilton
An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
by Alleyne Ireland
Christopher Columbus (1440-1506) : the first American citizen (by adoption)
by W. L. (William Livingston) Alden
Life of St. Vincent de Paul
by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes