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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
Vlissinger Michiel, of Neerlands glorie ter zee: Tweede omgewerkte Druk.
by Pieter Louwerse
Reminiscences of a Private, Company "G", First Arkansas Regiment Infantry: May, 1861 to 1865
by William E. Bevens
Sappho
by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
Bekentenissen van een strandvonder: Het leven op mijn tropisch eiland
by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Greuze
by Harold Armitage
Emperor William First, the Great War and Peace Hero
by A. Walter
Souvenirs concernant Jules Lagneau
by Alain
Ames inconnues : Notes intimes d'un séminariste
by Jean de La Brète
Da un carteggio inedito
by Giosuè Carducci
Harck Olufs aus der Insul Amron im Stifte Ripen in Jütland, gebürtig, sonderbare Avanturen, so sich mit ihm insonderheit zu Constantine und an andern Orten in Africa zugetragen.
by Otto Riese, Hark Oluf
Charles Sumner Centenary: Historical Address The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14
by Archibald Henry Grimké
Profili, impressioni e ricordi
by Neera
Turckse slavernie
by Emanuel d' Aranda
L'Illustration, No. 0043, 23 Décembre 1843
by Various Authors
Notes of a staff officer of our First New Jersey Brigade on the Seven Day's Battle on the peninsula in 1862
by E. Burd (Edward Burd) Grubb
An Account of the Ladies of Llangollen
by J. (John) Prichard
Histoire du Canal de Suez
by Ferdinand de Lesseps
Emlékezések
by Károly Eötvös
Chitimacha Notebook: Writings of Emile Stouff—A Chitimacha Chief
by Emile Stouff
Cartrefi Cymru
by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
Alfried Krupp: Ein Lebensbild
by Herman Frobenius
Lars Levi Laestadius: Elämäkerrallinen kuvaus
by J. A. Maunu
The Family Letters of Oliver Goldsmith A Paper Read Before the Bibliographical Society, October 15th, 1917
by Ernest Clarke
Juhana Hus
by Emil August Almberg
Paul Nicolay: Elämänkuvaus
by Margareta Langenskjöld
Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
by Frederic Boase
Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men
by Various Authors
Society as I Have Found It
by Ward McAllister
Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Francis Hobart Herrick
Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 2
by Asa Gray
A Daughter of the Middle Border
by Hamlin Garland
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man
by Isaac Frederick Marcosson, Daniel Frohman
With the Naval Brigade in Natal, 1899-1900: Journal of Active Service
by C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne
Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola
by Edson Leone Whitney, F. M. (Frances Melville) Perry
Through the Year with Famous Authors
by Mabel Patterson
The Letters of William James, Vol. 1
by William James
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
by Henri Frédéric Amiel
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1
by John Hill Burton
The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1
by Emperor of Rome Julian
Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work
by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two Written by Herself
by Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. V (of VI), "In London and Moscow" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
by Giacomo Casanova
Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2)
by Alfred von Reumont
La Vie de Madame Élisabeth, soeur de Louis XVI, Volume 1
by A. de (Alcide) Beauchesne
Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck
by Jethro Bithell
Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux
by Stephen Return Riggs
George Cruikshank
by W. H. (Wilfrid Hugh) Chesson
Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life
by Amos Lawrence
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1
by Harry Furniss
The Life of Rossini
by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards
Ellen Terry and Her Sisters
by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich Engels und Karl Marx 1844 bis 1883, Erster Band
by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Three Years in Tibet
by Ekai Kawaguchi
Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III.
by Various Authors
Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
by Walter Rowlands
The Life of Rev. David Brainerd, Chiefly Extracted from His Diary
by David Brainerd
Henry Ford's Own Story How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity
by Rose Wilder Lane
Dickens
by Sir Adolphus William Ward
John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1847-1900), a Memoir
by Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair
The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone
by Eric Fisher Wood
The Story of Joan of Arc
by Andrew Lang
The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and II
by Aleksandr Herzen
The life of St. Patrick and his place in history
by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
Ornithological biography, Vol. 3 (of 5) : An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America
by John James Audubon
Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 2 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition
by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
The Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah With a Sketch of His Life and Times
by C. J. (Charles James) Ball
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labours
by René Vallery-Radot
Robert Burns
by Gabriel Setoun
L'Abbé de l'Épée: sa vie, son apostolat, ses travaux, sa lutte et ses succès
by Ferdinand Berthier
A Day with Longfellow
by Anonymous
James Frederick Ferrier
by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
Abraham Lincoln: Was He a Christian?
by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg
Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589)
by Jean-H. (Jean-Hippolyte) Mariéjol
Mémoires inédits de Mademoiselle George, publiés d'après le manuscrit original
by Mademoiselle (Marguerite-Joséphine Weimer) George
L'ora topica di Carlo Dossi
by Gian Pietro Lucini
Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693
by Arvède Barine
My Father as I Recall Him
by Mamie Dickens
A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson
by Adrian C. (Adrian Constantine) Anson
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
by Candide Chalippe
Reminiscences: The Story of an Emigrant
by Hans Mattson
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal An Authentic Narrative of the Horrors, Mysteries, and Cruelties of Convent Life
by Sarah J. Richardson
The life of Florence Nightingale
by Sarah A. Tooley
The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel Comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers.
by Thomas H. Prescott
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
by J. J. Smith
From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine
by Alexander Irvine
My Musical Life
by Walter Damrosch
The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe
by Frederick B. Richards
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
by Margot Asquith
Travels in Nubia
by John Lewis Burckhardt, Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.)
by Elliott Graeme
Histoire de Marie-Antoinette, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Maxime de La Rocheterie
