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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
Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892
by Josef Ohrwalder, Sir F. R. (Francis Reginald) Wingate
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 2
by William Winter, William Jefferson Winter
Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery
by George Iles
The 'Blackwood' Group
by George Douglas
Giordano Bruno
by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre
William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist
by Elisabeth Luther Cary
Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date
by Edw. Le Roy (Edward Le Roy) Rice
The Journals of Major-Gen. C. G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum.
by Charles George Gordon
The Life of Cervantes
by Albert Frederick Calvert
Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess
by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer
Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
by Edward Edwards
Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of Appreciations
by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs
An Introduction to Shakespeare
by H. N. (Henry Noble) MacCracken, W. H. (Willard Higley) Durham, F. E. (Frederick Erastus) Pierce
Charles Dickens as a Reader
by Charles Kent
Bartholomew Sastrow: Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster
by Bartholomäus Sastrow
Danton: A study
by Hilaire Belloc
The Child's Book of American Biography
by Mary Stoyell Stimpson
The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)
by Giorgio Vasari
Alice, grand duchess of Hesse, princess of Great Britain and Ireland Biographical sketch and letters. With portrait.
by Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt consort of Ludwig IV Grand Duchess Alice
Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I
by Alexander Mackenzie
Baron d'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France
by Max Pearson Cushing
Lord Kelvin: An account of his scientific life and work
by Andrew Gray
The Invention of Lithography
by Alois Senefelder
William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
by Florian Cajori
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2
by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. I
by Earl of Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox) Bourne
The River and I
by John G. Neihardt
Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska
by Rockwell Kent
Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine
by H. Laing (Henry Laing) Gordon
Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas
by Walter Sichel
Sermons of Christmas Evans
by Christmas Evans
The Autobiography of Phineas Pett
by Phineas Pett
Histoire de la vie et de l'administration de Colbert
by Pierre Clément
Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time
by W. J. (William James) Rolfe
Maxim Gorki
by Hans Ostwald
Famous pets of famous people
by Eleanor Lewis
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
by George Paston
The Quiver, 11/1899
by Anonymous
Charles Lyell and Modern Geology
by T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney
Superwomen
by Albert Payson Terhune
Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845
by Frederick Edward Maning
The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion
by Robert Turnbull
St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks
by Various Authors
Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 2 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland
by Thomas M'Crie
Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. I.) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795
by William L. (William Leete) Stone
Life of Wagner
by Ludwig Nohl
Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome second Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle
by Tallemant des Réaux
Robert Boyle : A biography
by Flora Masson
Lincoln's Love Story
by Eleanor Atkinson
A memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P.C., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., sometime minister at the court of Morocco
by Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks, Alice Emily Drummond-Hay, John H. Drummond (John Hay Drummond) Hay
Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published
by George Macilwain
Emile Zola, Sa Vie—Son Oeuvre
by Edmond Lepelletier
A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock
Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American Singer
by Geraldine Farrar
Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
by Christopher Hare
What the Judge Saw: Being Twenty-Five Years in Manchester by One Who Has Done It
by Sir Edward Abbott Parry
Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer
by D. C. (Dexter C.) Bloomer
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Henry the Fifth, as Prince of Wales and King of England
by James Endell Tyler
The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier
by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
Memories and Anecdotes
by Kate Sanborn
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
by John Niles Hubbard
Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith
by Henry Digby Beste
Memórias
by Raul Brandão
An Astronomer's Wife: The Biography of Angeline Hall
by Angelo Hall
Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography for girls
by Martha Foote Crow
A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381
by Vincent Scully
Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere
by John Willis Clark
Happy England
by Marcus B. (Marcus Bourne) Huish
With Manchesters in the East
by Sir Gerald B. (Gerald Berkeley) Hurst
The Manifestation of the Miraculous Medal A Brief Account of Its History and of the Establishment of the Association
by Association of the Miraculous Medal
Ruysbroeck
by Evelyn Underhill
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier A Memorial Volume of Selections from His Lectures and Other Writings
by Reginald Bateman
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
by Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless
Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch
by Eva Shaw McLaren
The War Stories of Private Thomas Atkins
by James Milne
William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2
by Edward Smith
Lives of Celebrated Women
by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
The Log of a Noncombatant
by Horace Green
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum
by Mary Huestis Pengilly
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 03
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"
by James Blyth
Ten years in Burma
by Julius Smith
Oliveira Martins: Estudo de Psychologia
by Moniz Barreto
Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (9/9)
by duc de Raguse Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont
Memoirs of a Veteran Who Served as a Private in the 60's in the War Between the States Personal Incidents, Experiences and Observations
by I. (Isaac) Hermann
Three Months of My Life
by J. F. (John Frederick) Foster
The brothers Van Eyck
by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody
Souvenirs d'un sexagénaire, Tome I
by A.-V. (Antoine-Vincent) Arnault
