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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
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Hazard Stevens
A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman
by Charles Neufeld
Jane Austen's sailor brothers : Being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen
by J. H. (John Henry) Hubback, Edith C. (Edith Charlotte) Hubback
Lives of the apostles of Jesus Christ
by David Francis Bacon
Cardinal de Richelieu
by Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine) Price
Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2)
by Francis Trevithick
My Own Affairs
by Princess of Belgium Louise
"Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went
by Louis Keene
Le livre des visions et instructions de la bienheureuse Angèle de Foligno Traduit par Ernest Hello avec avertissement de Georges Goyau, de l'Académie française
by Saint of Foligno Angela
Rembrandt van Rijn
by Malcolm Bell
Ornithological biography, Vol. 1 (of 5) : An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America
by John James Audubon
Adventures with the Connaught Rangers, 1809-1814
by William Grattan
The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences
by Frederick Treves
The life of Adoniram Judson
by Edward Judson
William Caxton
by E. Gordon (Edward Gordon) Duff
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
by Fanny Kelly
Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner
by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
by Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham
Kansas Women in Literature
by Nettie Garmer Barker
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852.
by Various Authors
The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II
by James Henry Mapleson
D'Orsay; or, The complete dandy
by W. Teignmouth (William Teignmouth) Shore
Țara mea
by King of Romania consort of Ferdinand I Queen Marie
After Prison--What?
by Maud Ballington Booth
Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr.
by Edward B. (Edward Brooks) Hall
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
by Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant
Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind
by Frances Martin
Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate
by C. A. W. (Charles Arthur Whitmore) Monckton
To the American Indian
by Lucy Thompson
Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents
by Alexander Whyte
Walt Whitman, Yesterday & Today
by Henry Eduard Legler
Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II
by Charles Lever
The Life and Adventures of Ben Hogan, the Wickedest Man in the World
by Ben (Benedict) Hogan
Ludwig Tieck Erinnerungen aus dem Leben des Dichters nach dessen mündlichen und schriftlichen Mitteilungen
by Rudolf (Ernst Rudolf Anastasius) Köpke
My experiments with volcanoes
by Thomas Augustus Jaggar
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans
Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon
by comte Jean Rapp
An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker
by Cornelia Stratton Parker
The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday Being Some Random Reminiscences of a British Diplomat
by Lord Frederic Hamilton
Stammering, its cause and cure
by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-General
by Winifred Holt
Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War
by James J. Williamson
Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland
by United States. National Park Service
Millais
by A. L. (Alfred Lys) Baldry
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
by Hugh Blair Grigsby
The Public Life of Queen Victoria
by John McGilchrist
A West Pointer with the Boers personal narrative of Colonel J. Y. F. Blake, commander of the Irish brigade
by John Y. Fillmore Blake
Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary
by Daniel Dulany Addison
Louis David, Son Ecole et Son Temps: Souvenirs
by E. J. (Etienne Jean) Delécluze
A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants
by William Lay, Cyrus M. Hussey
Sir Rowland Hill: The Story of a Great Reform
by Eleanor C. Hill Smyth
The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809
by Harry Carter
Fifteen years in hell : An autobiography
by Luther Benson
A Russian Gentleman
by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians
by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee
Mémoires secrets de Fournier l'Américain
by Claude Fournier
Montrose
by Mowbray Morris
Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife
by Armin Stein
From Seven to Seventy: Memories of a Painter and a Yankee
by Edward Simmons
The Training of Wild Animals
by Frank Charles Bostock
Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20
by William Henry Ferris
Gallipoli Diary
by John Graham Gillam
Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
by M. (Meletios) Golden
A Woman Rice Planter
by Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston) Pringle
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 02
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Captivity and Escape
by Jean Martin
Why crime does not pay
by Sophie Lyons
Sixteen months at the gold diggings
by Daniel B. Woods
Rubens
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Nat the Navigator. A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch. For Young Persons
by Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll) Bowditch
Fletcher of Madeley
by Frederic W. (Frederic William) Macdonald
Souvenirs et correspondance tirés des papiers de Mme Récamier (1/2)
by Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier
John Marshall
by James Bradley Thayer
A Gold Hunter's Experience
by Chalkley J. Hambleton
Johann Sebastian Bach
by Ludwig Ziemssen
The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen.
by Roger Langdon, Ellen Langdon
The Snow Baby: A true story with true pictures
by Josephine Diebitsch Peary
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13 — Index to Volume 13
by Various Authors
Dürer
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Wilhelms I. Briefe an seinen Vater König Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1827-1839)
by German Emperor William I
Emma Goldman: Biographical Sketch
by Charles Allan Madison
Lettres d'un Innocent: The Letters of Captain Dreyfus to His Wife
by Alfred Dreyfus
Drawings of David Cox
by A. J. (Alexander Joseph) Finberg
Pietro Mascagni, con nota delle opere e ritratto
by Giannotto Bastianelli
Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54
by G. J. (George J.) Adler