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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
The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti With an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modern
by Charles William Russell
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
by Saint of Clairvaux Bernard
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
by Joseph Grimaldi
The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook
by Theodore Edward Hook
Maria Edgeworth
by Helen Zimmern
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1: Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755-1788
by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge
The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge A Catalogue and a Commentary
by Henry Festing Jones, A. T. (Augustus Theodore) Bartholomew
The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
by Earl of David Lindsay Crawford
Einstein, the searcher : his work explained from dialogues with Einstein
by Alexander Moszkowski
Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590
by Julia Cartwright
Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Tome 3 (de 3) 1855-1863
by Eugène Delacroix
Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome I.
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
My Life
by Josiah Flynt
Life of Charles Darwin
by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
The Wright Brothers
by Fred C. (Fred Charters) Kelly
Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent
by Hester Donaldson Jenkins
Bohemian Days in Fleet Street
by William Mackay
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10)
by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
My Memories of Eighty Years
by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew
Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement
by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood
Robert Browning
by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
Mungo Park and the Niger
by Joseph Thomson
Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2
by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
The Olivia Letters Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent
by Emily Edson Briggs
Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1
by John James Audubon
She and he; Lavinia; Memoir
by George Sand
Three Years' War
by Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
by Josiah Quincy
Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy
by J. R. (Joseph Robson) Tanner
Sappho and her influence
by David M. (David Moore) Robinson
Wrestling and Wrestlers Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting
by Jacob Robinson, Sidney Gilpin
Dr. Johnson and His Circle
by John Cann Bailey
James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics
by Richard Glazebrook
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 2: Politician, diplomatist, statesman, 1789-1801
by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England
by C. H. (Charles Harding) Firth
George Frideric Handel
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
by Archibald Forbes
Ruskin Relics
by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
Memoirs of an American Prima Donna
by Clara Louise Kellogg
Interpreters
by Carl Van Vechten
Ghosts I Have Seen, and Other Psychic Experiences
by Violet Tweedale
Ulrich Schmidel Der erste Geschichtschreiber der La Plata-Länder (1535-1555)
by Robert Lehmann-Nitsche
Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 1 of 2
by Baron Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton
General Gordon : A Christian hero
by Seton Churchill
The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches from the Western Battle-Front
by Thomas Tiplady
The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel
by Anonymous
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage
by Pleasant A. Stovall
Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A. from the Italian
by R. Hugh (Richard Hugh) Connolly
With the Ulster Division in France A Story of the 11th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (South Antrim Volunteers), From Bordon to Thiepval.
by Arthur Purefoy Irwin) A. P. I. (Samuels S., Dorothy Gage Samuels
Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections
by Earl of Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery
Rossetti
by Lucien Pissarro
Horace
by William Tuckwell
Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3)
by John Ireland, John Nichols
Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army, and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life
by Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford
Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 1
by Asa Gray
Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
by Calamity Jane
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
by William Winstanley
Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
by Arabella M. Willson
My adventures during the late war : A narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, and sea service in 1804-14
by Donat Henchy O'Brien
Juvenilla; Prosa ligera
by Miguel Cané
Enfances célèbres
by Louise Colet
The Gold-Headed Cane
by William Macmichael
The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G.C.B.
by Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith
Une histoire d'Amour : George Sand et A. de Musset Documents inédits, Lettres de Musset
by Paul Mariéton
Sir Walter Scott
by Andrew Lang
The Real Captain Kidd: A Vindication
by Cornelius Neale Dalton
Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, From 1848 to 1861
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Biographical Catalogue of the Portraits at Panshanger, the Seat of Earl Cowper, K.G.
by Mary Louisa Boyle
Joseph Conrad
by Hugh Walpole
Carlo Dolci
by George Hay
Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D.
by Brantz Mayer
A Day with Robert Louis Stevenson
by May Byron
Cardinal Wolsey
by M. (Mandell) Creighton
Our Philadelphia
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Mons, Anzac and Kut
by Aubrey Herbert
The Retrospect
by Ada Cambridge
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7)
by Arthur Thomas Malkin
John Hus: A brief story of the life of a martyr
by William Dallmann
Recuerdos de mi vida (tomo 2 de 2)
by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
L'Imperatore Giuliano l'Apostata: studio storico
by Gaetano Negri
Erinnerungen
by Ludwig Thoma
Mémoires du Baron de Bonnefoux, Capitaine de vaisseau, 1782-1855
by baron de Pierre-Marie-Joseph Bonnefoux
Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history
by Gustav A. Just
The Life and Letters of George John Romanes, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.
by George John Romanes, Ethel Duncan Romanes
Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters
by Octavia Hill
The Great Musicians: Purcell
by William Hayman Cummings
The life of Poggio Bracciolini
by William Shepherd
Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life
by Arthur E. Knights
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (8/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
Journal of a Tour in the Years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst Accompanying the Late Sir Humphry Davy
by J. J. Tobin
Starr King in California
by William Day Simonds
A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car 1898
by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray