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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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Meditations
by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
by Elbert Hubbard
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784
by James Boswell
Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections
by Clara Morris
T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage, Eleanor McCutcheon Collier Talmage
The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
by Lucy Larcom
A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832
by James Holman
Test Pilot
by James Collins
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
by Elbert Hubbard
A Woman Tenderfoot
by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers
by James Parton
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Henry Ketcham
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 01
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Dr. Teodoro Herzl Discorso Commemorativo tenuto in Trieste la sera del 12 Luglio 1904
by Dante A. Lattes
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852
by Various Authors
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 2)
by François Guizot
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 03
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops
by Isaac J. Hill
The Biography of a Grizzly
by Ernest Thompson Seton
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
The Life of Mohammad, the Prophet of Allah
by Etienne Dinet, Sliman Ben Ibrahim
Bergson and His Philosophy
by John Alexander Gunn
Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Late Retired General. U. S. A.
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
by Abraham Lincoln
Caesar: A Sketch
by James Anthony Froude
The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852
by Charles Greville
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Frederick Douglass A Biography
by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons
by Ernest Christopher Dowson
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.
by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley
Masters of French Music
by Arthur Hervey
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Autobiographic Sketches
by Thomas De Quincey
The romance of Isabel Lady Burton : The story of her life. Volume II
by Lady Isabel Burton, W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
Historic Girls: Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times
by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks
The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation
by Edward Maitland
Franz Schubert : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs
by Thomas Tapper
The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm
by William Wood
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 12: Return to Paris
by Giacomo Casanova
Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force
by Joseph Lievesley Beeston
A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 14: Switzerland
by Giacomo Casanova
Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel
by Jarena Lee
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 11
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 2 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe
by Mme. Du Hausset, princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe
Personal Sketches and Tributes Part 2 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Mentor: Julius Cæsar, Vol. 6, Num. 2, Serial No. 150, March 1, 1918
by George Willis Botsford
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 12
by Louis Constant Wairy
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 71: January 1668-69
by Samuel Pepys
La Nonne Alferez
by Catalina de Erauso
Henrik Renqvist
by Matthias Akiander
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
by Alma Lutz
The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
by Emperor of Hindustan Babur
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
by Johan Huizinga
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
by Charles Darwin
Ecce homo, Wie man wird, was man ist
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Memoirs
by Charles Godfrey Leland
Washington's Masonic Correspondence As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress
by George Washington
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
by Albert Bigelow Paine
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843
by Abraham Lincoln
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 2 of 2)
by William E. (William Eleazar) Barton
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
The Mentor: Makers of American Fiction, Vol. 6, Num. 14, Serial No. 162, September 1, 1918
by Arthur Bartlett Maurice
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
by Abraham Lincoln
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The True George Washington [10th Ed.]
by Paul Leicester Ford
Histoire de ma Vie, Livre 2 (Vol. 5 - 9)
by George Sand
John Redmond's Last Years
by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901
by Charles Plummer
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
by Various Authors
Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Tome premier
by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
The Spirit of Lafayette
by James Mott Hallowell
Ariel: A Shelley Romance
by André Maurois
Bastien Lepage
by François Crastre
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
by James Norman Hall
Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, Volume 2 (of 3)
by Lady Hester Stanhope
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 18: Return to Naples
by Giacomo Casanova
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 1 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe
by Mme. Du Hausset, princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe
Un viaggio elettorale
by Francesco De Sanctis
L'Illustration, No. 0057, 30 Mars 1844
by Various Authors