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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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Anatole France
by Walter Lionel George
Ornithological biography, Vol. 2 (of 5) : An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America
by John James Audubon
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel
by Mrs. John Herschel
Andreas Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy
by James Moores Ball
Robert Moffat, the missionary hero of Kuruman
by David J. Deane
Henrik Ibsen A Bibliography of Criticism and Biography with an Index to Characters
by Ina Ten Eyck Firkins
The Mentor: American Miniature Painters, January 15, 1917, Serial No. 123
by Elizabeth Lounsbery
St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music
by E. G. P. (Edward Gerald Penfold) Wyatt
Sir Christopher Wren : Scientist, scholar and architect
by Lawrence Weaver
Shout treason : the trial of Aaron Burr
by Francis F. Beirne
Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected.
by Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas) Pickard
Ornithological biography, Vol. 4 (of 5) : An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America
by John James Audubon
Handel : The Story of a Little Boy who Practiced in an Attic
by Thomas Tapper
The Young People's Wesley
by W. (William) McDonald
Engineers and their triumphs the story of the locomotive, the steamship, bridge building, tunnel making
by F. M. (Frederic Morell) Holmes
From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book
by John Kendrick Bangs
A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia
by Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth) Zakrzewska
My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
by Mary King Waddington
David Crockett : scout, small boy, pilgrim, mountaineer, soldier, bear-hunter, and Congressman, defender of the Alamo
by Charles Fletcher Allen
Mantegna
by N. D'Anvers
A Woman's Part in a Revolution
by Natalie Harris Hammond
Ethan Allen, the Robin Hood of Vermont
by Henry Hall
Tschaikowsky and his orchestral music
by Louis Biancolli
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
by William James Stillman
Abbotsford
by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1
by John Charles Dent
Confessions of a Neurasthenic
by William Taylor Marrs
"Back from hell"
by Samuel Cranston Benson
Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880)
by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer
Theodor Leschetizky
by Annette Hullah
A Doctor in France, 1917-1919: The Diary of Harold Barclay
by Harold Barclay
Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer
by David Stevenson
From Bondage to Liberty in Religion: A Spiritual Autobiography
by George T. (George Thomas) Ashley
The Cabots and the Discovery of America With a Brief Description and History of Brandon Hill, the Site of the Cabot Memorial Tower
by active 1895-1897 Elizabeth Hodges
Life of Mozart
by Ludwig Nohl
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment
by late captain Donald Shaw
Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic
by Francis Grierson
The Red Rugs of Tarsus: A Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909
by Helen Davenport Gibbons
The Diary of a French Private: War-Imprisonment, 1914-1915
by Gaston Riou
The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox
by Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Morris
Capt. W. F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts, As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains, Across the Plains of the Wild West of Fifty Years Ago
by William F. Drannan
A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four
by Noah Davis
"Præterita": souvenirs de jeunesse
by John Ruskin
Robert Schumann, Tone-Poet, Prophet and Critic
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Lincoln, the Politician
by T. Aaron Levy
Souvenirs d'une actrice (2/3)
by Louise Fusil
Souvenirs et correspondance tirés des papiers de Mme Récamier (2/2)
by Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier
To Infidelity and Back
by Henry F. (Henry Frey) Lutz
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662
by Samuel Pepys
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695 April 21, 1877.
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829
by Various Authors
Twenty-six years reminiscences of Scotch grouse moors
by W. A. (William Alexander) Adams
The biography of a baby
by Milicent Washburn Shinn
Trials and Triumphs of Faith
by Mary Cole
Early memories; some chapters of autobiography
by John Butler Yeats
Meine Lebens-Erinnerungen - Band 1
by Adam Oehlenschläger
The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West
by John Armstrong
Extract from a Sermon Delivered at the Bulfinch-Street Church, Boston, Jan. 9, 1853, the Sunday Following the Interment of the Late Amos Lawrence
by Frederick T. (Frederick Turell) Gray
A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
by Elisabeth G. Stryker
Abraham Lincoln's Religion
by Madison Clinton Peters
Elias Lönnrot: Biografiskt utkast
by August Ahlqvist
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 72: February/March 1668-69
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 14: January/February 1661-62
by Samuel Pepys
Stevenson at Manasquan
by Charlotte Eaton
Some of My War Stories A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal legion
by Allen Ripley Foote
Søren Hjorth: Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle
by Sigurd Smith
Seventeen Years in Paris: A Chaplain's Story
by H. E. (Henry Edward) Noyes
Journal of a trip to California : across the continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the summer of 1850
by Charles W. Smith
The Story of My Life — Volume 01
by Georg Ebers
The Lincoln Country in Pictures
by Carl Frazier, Rosalie Frazier
Kahleeton vanki: Elämäkerrallinen kuvaus
by Heikki Meriläinen
Elämäni ja työni
by Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther
Meine Lebens-Erinnerungen - Band 2
by Adam Oehlenschläger
Väinö: Elämäntarina
by Sophie Mannerheim
Johannes Kalvin
by Friedrich Oehninger
Zacharias Topelius: Elämä ja toiminta
by A. J. Sarlin
Ο Ψυχάρης και το έργο του
by Kostas Phlores
Poimintoja Jaakko Fellmanin muistiinpanoista Lapissa
by Jakob Esaiaksenpoika Fellman
Nurhosen jälk. & Kumpp.
by Antti Saarela
The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes
by Charles Dalton
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record
by William Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill
by Leslie Stephen
Lord John Russell
by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid
James Watt
by Andrew Carnegie
Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia
by William Fiddian Reddaway
Asser's Life of King Alfred
by John Asser
The Women Who Make Our Novels
by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton
The Autobiography of an Indian Princess
by Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee
Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life
by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of Love
by Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton
Victor Hugo: His Life and Work
by George Barnett Smith
Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers
by W. E. (William Edward) Winks
The Last Days of Tolstoy
by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov
Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy
by William F. (William Francis) Gekle
Some Famous Women
by Louise Creighton
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Hazard Stevens