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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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Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
by Helen Zimmern
Tolstoi's leven Zijne persoonlijke herinneringen, brieven en aanteekeningen 1828-1863
by Pavel Ivanovich Biriukov
Admiral Jellicoe
by Arthur Applin
The Life of Saint Columba, Apostle of Scotland
by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux. Written by himself.
by James Hardy Vaux
Two Chancellors: Prince Gortchakof and Prince Bismarck
by Julian Klaczko
Letters from the Raven: Correspondence of L. Hearn with Henry Watkin
by Lafcadio Hearn
A "Y" Girl in France: Letters of Katherine Shortall
by Katherine Shortall
Lives and exploits of the most noted highwaymen, robbers and murderers of all nations Drawn from the most authentic sources and brought down to the present time
by Charles Whitehead
Schubert and His Work
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Mendelssohn and Certain Masterworks
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates
by Iola Beebe
Treading the narrow way
by Robert Emmett Barrett
Noa Noa
by Paul Gauguin
Three Wisconsin Cushings A sketch of the lives of Howard B., Alonzo H. and William B. Cushing, children of a pioneer family of Waukesha County
by Theron Wilber Haight
Le Héros de Châteauguay
by L.-O. (Laurent-Olivier) David
The Old Game: A Retrospect After Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon
by Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
Ignaz Jan Paderewski
by Edward Algernon Baughan
John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775
by Jr. (Josiah Henry) Josiah H. Benton
Elizabeth Hooton : First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)
by Emily Manners
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 13
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Will Bradley, His Chap Book An account, in the words of the dean of American typographers, of his graphic arts adventures ...
by Will Bradley
Luiz de Camões marinheiro
by Vicente de Almeida de Eça
The life of Rev. Henry Martyn : Written for the American Sunday School Union, with some account of Abdool Messeeh, a Hindoo convert
by John Hall, John Sargent
The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication
by George Matthews Bennett
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899
by Various Authors
The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. The West
by Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Wyckoff
Joseph K. F. Mansfield, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army A Narrative of Events Connected with His Mortal Wounding at Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862
by John Mead Gould
Memoir of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal and Spain, By an officer employed in his army
by Earl of John Fane Westmorland
Achtundvierzig Briefe von Johann Gottlieb Fichte und seinen Verwandten
by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Spirit of 1906
by George W. (George William) Brooks
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 03
by Count Anthony Hamilton
Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape
by Daniel Avery Langworthy
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln
Robert Burns: A play
by John Drinkwater
Vita di Francesco Burlamacchi
by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
My Year in a Log Cabin
by William Dean Howells
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico The Story of its Early Explorations, as told by Jim White
by Jim White
Three Great Epoch-Makers in Music
by Edward Clarence Farnsworth
Rembrandt
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
A Surgeon in Arms
by R. J. (Robert James) Manion
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669
by Samuel Pepys
Story of the Life of St. Paul, the Apostle
by active 1880-1896 Mary Seymour
Ernesto Garcia Cabral: A Mexican Cartoonist
by G. R. G. (George Robert Graham) Conway
Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke: An Appreciation
by Lady Huggins
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 05
by Count Anthony Hamilton
Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry
by William H. Clark
Nagy magyarok élete (2. kötet)
by Elek Benedek
St. Domingo, its revolution and its hero, Toussaint Louverture.
by Charles Wyllys Elliott
Personal Recollections of Chickamauga A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
by James R. (James Richards) Carnahan
Homer Martin, a Reminiscence, October 28, 1836-February 12, 1897
by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin
Diary of Captain John Cooke, 1794
by active 1792-1794 John Cooke, Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Nagy Balogh János élete és művészete (1874-1919) Egy ismeretlenül élt festő emlékkönyve
by Artúr Elek
Merimiehen matkamuistelmia 1 Ja haaksirikko
by Aukusti Högman
Kaarlo Bergbom: Henkilökuvaus
by Jalmari Finne
Tribute to Michael Hart
by Majid AlHydar
Benjamin Franklin
by Jr. (John Torrey) John T. Morse
A Sailor of King George
by Captain Frederick Hoffman
Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography
by W. (William) Stebbing
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Dorothy Wordsworth
Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet
by Juliette Drouet, Louis Guimbaud
Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
by Martin Luther
The Life of Francis Thompson
by Everard Meynell
Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535
by Roger Bigelow Merriman
Life of Chopin
by Franz Liszt
Oscar Wilde, a study
by André Gide
Twenty Years of My Life
by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Andrew Melville
by William Morison
William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work
by Irene Langridge
An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.
by Thomas Lindsay Buick
Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2
by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
by Osgood E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. II (of VI), "To Paris and Prison" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
by Giacomo Casanova
"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message With his own words which have won thousands for Christ
by William T. (William Thomas) Ellis
Heroines of the Modern Stage
by Forrest Izard
Inventors
by Philip Gengembre Hubert
Rulers of India: Akbar
by G. B. (George Bruce) Malleson
The life of Mazzini
by Bolton King
A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
by William Constantine Beecher, Mrs. H. W. Beecher, Samuel Scoville
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
by Henry Du Pré Labouchere
The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
by John Gibson Paton
Mafeking : a diary of the siege
by Frederick David Baillie
The Story of Geronimo
by Jim Kjelgaard
Histoire de Marie-Antoinette, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Maxime de La Rocheterie
Luther, vol. 5 of 6
by Hartmann Grisar
The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, Issue 160, April, 1904
by Various Authors
A Book of Quaker Saints
by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
Giorgione
by Herbert Frederick Cook
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850.
by Various Authors
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 2
by Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) Tilden
Geofroy Tory Painter and engraver; first royal printer; reformer of orthography and typography under François I.
by Auguste Bernard
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Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"]
by Helen Cody Wetmore
Charles Robert Maturin: His Life and Works
by Niilo Idman