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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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Le dimanche avec Paul Cézanne (souvenirs)
by Léo Larguier
Memories of Lincoln
by Walt Whitman
Vagabond Adventures
by Ralph Keeler
John Galsworthy
by Sheila Kaye-Smith
Tieni varrella tapaamia 1
by Maikki Friberg
Chodowiecki
by Ludwig Kaemmerer
Maerten Harpertsz. Tromp: Een zeemanszoon uit de 17de eeuw
by Johannes Hendrik Been
Souvenirs d'une actrice (3/3)
by Louise Fusil
Sarah Bernhardt
by Jules Huret
Le chanteur parisien Recueil des chansons de L.A. Pitou
by Louis Ange Pitou
Figuras americanas: Galería de hombres illustres
by Miguel Agustin Pérez
Gwaith Alun
by John Blackwell
Rafael Cordero: Elogio Póstumo
by Salvador Brau
Jaakko Juteini ja hänen kirjallinen toimintansa
by Kuuno A. TalviOja
Sam Bass
by Eugene Cunningham
Whittier at close range
by Frances C. Sparhawk
Johan Tobias Beckin elämäkerta
by Eero Hyvärinen
Merimiehen matkamuistelmia 2 Maalla ja merellä
by Aukusti Högman
Mémoires de Céleste Mogador, Volume 1
by comtesse Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan
Voli di guerra: Impressioni di un giornalista pilota
by Otello Cavara
Napoleon
by H. C. Bering (Henrik Carl Bering) Liisberg
Vanhoja muistoja
by Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Heinrich Ströbel
Noveller
by Minna Canth
Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. Written by Herself
by Empress of Russia Catherine II
Baden-Powell of Mafeking
by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
Pius IX. And His Time
by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge
William Hickling Prescott
by Harry Thurston Peck
Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century
by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
by Various Authors
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II
by Mrs. Russell Barrington
Lafcadio Hearn
by Nina H. Kennard
Benjamin Franklin
by Robin McKown
The life and times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt : a study in the origin of the Roman Empire
by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall
The Earl of Beaconsfield
by James Anthony Froude
Richard the Lion Heart
by Kate Norgate
Sixteen years in Siberia: Some experiences of a Russian revolutionist
by L. G. (Lev Grigor'evich) Deich
Notes of a Son and Brother
by Henry James
The life of Pasteur
by René Vallery-Radot
Rudyard Kipling
by John Palmer
Goya, an account of his life and works
by Albert Frederick Calvert
Dave Ranney Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography
by Dave Ranney
Fragments of an Autobiography
by Felix Moscheles
Famous leaders among men
by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Henry Fielding: a Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary Prints
by G. M. (Gertrude M.) Godden
The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains
by Augustus Henry Irby
Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino
by George C. Williamson
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
by Marianne Farningham
Looking Back: An Autobiography
by Merrick Abner Richardson
War Days in Brittany
by Elsie Deming Jarves
I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days
by Mary MacLane
Recollections of a Military Life
by Sir John Adye
Madame Roland: A Biographical Study
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
The Delta of the Triple Elevens : the history of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery, United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces
by William Elmer Bachman
The life and works of Sir Charles Barry
by Alfred Barry
Mademoiselle de Scudéry, sa vie et sa correspondance, avec un choix de ses poésies
by Madeleine de Scudéry
The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters
by Reuben Briggs Davenport
La Grande Mademoiselle, 1627-1652
by Arvède Barine
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7)
by Arthur Thomas Malkin
Fighting Without a War: An Account of Military Intervention in North Russia
by Ralph Albertson
Women of Belgium: Turning Tragedy to Triumph
by Charlotte Kellogg
From Crow-Scaring to Westminster: An Autobiography
by Sir George Edwards
Christmas Evans, the Preacher of Wild Wales His country, his times, and his contemporaries
by Edwin Paxton Hood
The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman
by Robert M. Vogel
Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 2 (of 2)
by active 19th century M. Colmache
Chopin : The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies
by Thomas Tapper
The Adventures of Captain John Patterson With Notices of the Officers, &c. of the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821
by John Patterson
William Morris: A Critical Study
by John Drinkwater
The Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of Frontenac
by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby
Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
by John Hugh Bowers
S.O.S. Stand to!
by Reginald Grant
John Knox
by William M. (William Mackergo) Taylor
Myself When Young: Confessions
by Alec Waugh
Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale
by C. L. (Cecilia Lucy) Brightwell
The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Sir Rowland Hill, George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Chronique de 1831 à 1862, Tome 2 (de 4)
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler
by Arthur Jerome Eddy
Lights and shadows in Confederate prisons : a personal experience, 1864-5
by Homer B. (Homer Baxter) Sprague
Η Βιογραφία του στρατηγού Γεωργίου Καραϊσκάκη
by Demetrios Ainian
George Eliot Centenary, November 1919 Catalogue of Relics, Manuscrips, Prints, Paintings, Photographs & Books relating to George Eliot
by Coventry (England). Public Libraries Committee
Tragedies of the White Slave
by H. M. Lytle
Life of J. E. B. Stuart
by Mary L. (Mary Lynn) Williamson
The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A.
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The Story of Sir Francis Drake
by Letitia MacColl Elton
Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work
by Various Authors
Heroes of Science: Chemists
by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
Report of an autopsy on the bodies of Chang and Eng Bunker, commonly known as the Siamese twins
by Harrison Allen
The Mexican War diary of George B. McClellan
by George B. (George Brinton) McClellan
Woman in Prison
by Caroline H. Woods
The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"
by John Hicklin
Anthon L. Skanchy : a brief autobiographical sketch of the missionary labors of a valiant soldier for Christ
by Anthon L. (Anthon Lornsen) Skanchy
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 26: January/February 1663-64
by Samuel Pepys
The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
by Thomas Longueville