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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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Queen Victoria as I Knew Her
by Sir Theodore Martin
David Thompson, the explorer
by Charles Norris Cochrane
The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight: Langley's Success as a Pioneer in Aviation From the Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 217-222, Publication 2329, 1915
by Albert Francis Zahm
Memories of Old Montana
by Con Price
Civil War Experiences under Bayard, Gregg, Kilpatrick, Custer, Raulston, and Newberry, 1862, 1863, 1864
by Henry C. (Henry Coddington) Meyer
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831
by Various Authors
Peter Abélard
by Joseph McCabe
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 1
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
Carl Wilhelm Scheele ett minnesblad på hundrade årsdagen af hans död
by P. T. (Per Teodor) Cleve
Eugenie, Empress of the French
by Clara Tschudi
Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics
by John Wesley Dafoe
Memoirs of the Late War, Vol 2 (of 2) Comprising the Personal Narrative of Captain Cooke, of the 43rd Regiment Light Infantry; the History of the Campaign of 1809 in Portugal, by the Earl of Munster; and a Narrative of the Campaign of 1814 in Holland, by Lieut. T. W. D. Moodie, H. P. 21st Fusileers
by Sir John Henry Cooke, J. W. Dunbar (John Wedderburn Dunbar) Moodie, Earl of George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence Munster
The Glebe 1913/11 (Vol. 1, No. 2): Diary of a Suicide
by Wallace E. Baker
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 11: Titus
by Suetonius
Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 3 Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne
by Giuseppe Bertini
Cinq années de ma vie, 1894-1899
by Alfred Dreyfus
Captain John Smith
by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Nothing of Importance A record of eight months at the front with a Welsh battalion, October, 1915, to June, 1916
by Bernard Adams
In the Royal Naval Air Service Being the war letters of the late Harold Rosher to his family
by Harold Rosher
The Life of Saint Monica
by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
Deeds Barn and the Self Starter
by Anonymous
A Peep Into the Past
by Sir Max Beerbohm
The Empty Sleeve or, The Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham, in the Union Army
by Henry H. Meacham
Lettere di Lodovico Ariosto Con prefazione storico-critica, documenti e note
by Lodovico Ariosto
Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan, a Confederate Soldier
by Thomas D. (Thomas Dudley) Duncan
Mémoires d'une contemporaine. Tome 2 Souvenirs d'une femme sur les principaux personnages de la République, du Consulat, de l'Empire, etc...
by Ida Saint-Elme
J. W. v. Goethe's Biographie
by Heinrich Döring
Beyond the Lines; Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie
by John James Geer
Little Pills, an Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago
by R. H. (Robert Henderson) McKay
Gräfin Elisa von Ahlefeldt, die Gattin Adolphs von Lützow, die Freundin Karl Immermann's
by Ludmilla Assing
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 67: August 1668
by Samuel Pepys
Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission
by Daniel C. (Daniel Clarke) Eddy
Battles & Bivouacs: A French soldier's note-book
by Jacques Roujon
L'amiral Du Casse, Chevalier de la Toison d'Or (1646-1715) Étude sur la France maritime et coloniale (règne de Louis XIV)
by baron Robert Emmanuel Léon Du Casse
Boy of My Heart
by Marie Connor Leighton
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666
by Samuel Pepys
Camillo Castello Branco
by Antonio da Silva Pinto
Leopardi
by Federico De Roberto
A trip to California in 1853 : Recollections of a gold seeking trip by ox train across the plains and mountains by an old Illinois pioneer
by Washington Bailey
Pine to Potomac : Life of James G. Blaine: his boyhood, youth, manhood, and public services; with a sketch of the life of Gen. John A. Logan
by E. K. Cressey
The Rhode Island Artillery at the First Battle of Bull Run
by J. Albert (John Albert) Monroe
Gauss, ein Umriss seines Lebens und Wirkens
by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
Journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius, a Revolutionary Surgeon
by Elias Cornelius
Jan Amos Komenský Johano Amos Comenius
by Jan Václav Novák
Das Haus in der Sonne
by Carl Larsson
As Cinzas de Camillo
by Visconde de Bento de Oliveira Cardoso Villa-Moura
Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops Personal Narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No. 7, Second Series
by Joshua M. (Joshua Melancthon) Addeman
Mémoires de Céleste Mogador, Volume 2
by comtesse Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan
Louise Imogen Guiney
by Alice Brown
Souvenirs de la Cour d'Assises
by André Gide
The story of my childhood
by Clara Barton
Alexandre Herculano Conferencia pública realizada no Atheneu Commercial de Lisboa, na noite de 15 de Julho de 1900
by Diogo Rosa Machado
Una giovinezza del secolo XIX
by Neera
Boys Who Became Famous Men Stories of the Childhood of Poets, Artists, and Musicians
by Harriet Pearl Skinner
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Sein Leben und Wirken. Erster Theil
by Heinrich Eduard Brockhaus
The Story of My Life — Volume 03
by Georg Ebers
Galileo and His Judges
by F. R. (Francis Richard) Wegg-Prosser
Two Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of Nonington, Kent, January 17, 1864 being the Sunday following the Funeral of John Pemberton Plumptre, Esq.
by Herbert James, Edward Hoare
Donne e poeti
by Enrico Panzacchi
Rumänisches Tagebuch
by Hans Carossa
Fairlop and Its Founder; or, Facts and Fun for the Forest Frolickers.
by Famed First Friday Fairgoer
Alfred Kihlman: Elämän kuvaus. 2 (of 2)
by Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä
War Flying
by L. F. Hutcheon
The Pilot's Daughter: an account of Elizabeth Cullingham
by Francis Cunningham
Hugo de Groot en zijn rechtsphilosophie
by H. Bertens
Vankeuteni
by Silvio Pellico
Dante: His Times and His Work
by Arthur John Butler
Famous Women: George Sand
by Bertha Thomas
The Life of Cicero, Volume II.
by Anthony Trollope
Pyrrhus Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
by Jacob Kainen
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
by Julius West
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Mrs. Julian Marshall
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel
by Saint of Avila Teresa
Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study
by Edward Hutton
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work
by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Jane Austen and Her Times
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Otto Jahn
Aristotle
by George Grote
George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
by René Doumic
The whole truth and nothing but
by Hedda Hopper, James Brough
A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Tolstoy
by Romain Rolland
Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1
by Joseph Grego
The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
by Ellen Terry
Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley) Chamberlain
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
by Harry Houdini
The Brothers Dalziel A Record of Fifty Years Work in Conjunction with many of the Most Distinguished Artists of the Period 1840-1890
by George Dalziel, Edward Dalziel
A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French.
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2)
by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir
Concord Days
by Amos Bronson Alcott