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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 Story of a Great Schoolmaster
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Bob: The Story of Our Mocking-bird
by Sidney Lanier
Did Betsey Ross Design the Flag of the United States of America? Publication of the Scottsville Literary Society
by Franklin Hanford
Le panthéon de poche
by Pierre Véron
A Night in the Snow or, A Struggle for Life
by E. Donald (Edmund Donald) Carr
The Personal Touch
by J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) Chapman
Vida de Cervantes
by Gregorio Mayans y Siscar
Hendrik Conscience, zijn persoon en zijn werk
by Eugène de Bock
Birket Foster, R.W.S. Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work
by H. M. (Herbert Minton) Cundall
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 725, November 17, 1877
by Various Authors
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 61: January 1667-68
by Samuel Pepys
Elijah Cobb : 1768-1848 a Cape Cod skipper
by Elijah Cobb
The book of Saint Nicholas
by James Kirke Paulding
L'Antologia di Gian Pietro Vieusseux
by Paolo Prunas
Reminiscences of the Civil War, 1861-1865
by Preston Lafayette Ledford
Irvin Cobb, His Book: Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXV
by Various Authors
A balatoni utazás vége
by Károly Eötvös
Defensa obligada contra acusaciones gratuitas
by Bernardino Nozaleda
3½ Monate Fabrik-Arbeiterin
by Minna Wettstein-Adelt
Sämmtliche Werke 8: Briefwechsel II, Hans Küchelgarten Briefwechsel II / Die Beichte des Dichters / Betrachtungen über die Heilige Liturgie / Jugendschriften / Fragmente / Hans Küchelgarten
by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
José Estevão (Edição do centenario)
by Eduardo de Sousa
Harper's Round Table, March 23, 1897
by Various Authors
George Borrow : A sermon preached in Norwich Cathedral on July 6, 1913
by H. C. (Henry Charles) Beeching
Nagyokról és kicsinyekről
by Károly Eötvös
Auskultantin päiväkirja: Pöytälaatikon salaisuuksia
by Ilmari Kianto
Incidents in a Gipsy's Life
by George Smith
Mon voyage aventureux en Russie communiste
by Madeleine Pelletier
Interesting Incidents Connected With the Life of George Bickers Originally a Farmer's Parish Apprentice at Laxfield, in Suffolk, but Now Residing in Oulton
by George Bickers
Mein Weg zu Martin Luther
by Anton Ohorn
Jean Jacques Rousseau ja hänen filosofiansa
by Harald Høffding
Amerikanskt: Som emigrant till Amerika
by Ester Blenda Nordström
Henrik Gabriel Porthan: Elämäkerran luonnos
by Gunnar Suolahti
Emberi miniatürök
by Sándor Tonelli
Elias Lönnrot
by O. A. (Oskar Albin) Kallio
Hans Nielsen Hauge
by Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull
Ida Aalberg
by Ilmari Räsänen
Jääkärin muistelmia
by Jalmari Kara
The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert
by Horace Wyndham
La copa de Verlaine
by Emilio Carrere
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls
by Jacqueline Overton
Dickens As an Educator
by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Edgar Saltus: The Man
by Marie Saltus
James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports
by James Gilmour
La Vie de Madame Élisabeth, soeur de Louis XVI, Volume 2
by A. de (Alcide) Beauchesne
Rembrandt, With a Complete List of His Etchings
by Arthur Mayger Hind
Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Note-book
by Judith Cladel
Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York
by Thomas Mott Osborne
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc.
by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon
Caudebec in America : A record of the descendants of Jacques Caudebec, 1700 to 1920
by William Louis Cuddeback
General Gatacre The Story of the Life and Services of Sir William Forbes Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., 1843-1906
by Lady Beatrix Wickens Davey Gatacre
My Mamie Rose: The Story of My Regeneration
by Owen Kildare
Memories of the Kaiser's Court
by Anne Topham
The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake
by Graham Travers
Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2)
by active 19th century M. Colmache
Albert Ballin
by Bernhard Huldermann
Armand de Pontmartin, sa vie et ses oeuvres, 1811-1890
by Edmond Biré
Rebels and Reformers: Biographies for Young People
by Baron Arthur Ponsonby Ponsonby, Dorothea Ponsonby
Le Roi de Rome (1811-1832)
by Henri Welschinger
Gróf Gvadányi József és Fazekas Mihály (Magyar remekirók 6. kötet)
by gróf József Gvadányi, Mihály Fazekas
The boys' life of Edison
by Wm. H. (William Henry) Meadowcroft
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober
Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864
by Lemuel Abijah Abbott
The Boyhood of Great Inventors
by A. Fraser Robertson
Madame Adam (Juliette Lambert), la grande Française : from Louis Philippe until 1917
by Winifred Stephens Whale
Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by John D. (John Donald) Carrick
Mémoires de Madame la Duchesse de Tourzel, tome premier Gouvernante des enfants de France pendant les années 1789 à 1795
by Duchesse de Louise Elisabeth Tourzel
Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career
by Henry Blackburn
Sir William Wallace
by Alexander Falconer Murison
Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger Fourth Edition
by E. G. (Elihu Goodwin) Holland
Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England A Biographical Sketch
by H. A. L. (Herbert Albert Laurens) Fisher
Angélique de Mackau, Marquise de Bombelles, et la Cour de Madame Élisabeth
by comte Maurice Fleury
Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas
by Charles Lee Lewis
The Boys' Nelson
by Harold Wheeler
Saint Athanasius, the Father of Orthodoxy
by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
A Kut Prisoner
by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop
Fighting the Boche Underground
by H. D. (Harry Davis) Trounce
The Academic Gregories
by Agnes Grainger Stewart
Makers of Modern Agriculture
by William Macdonald
Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus
by Emperor of Rome Augustus
William Tyndale
by James J. (James Joseph) Ellis
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
by J. R. Henslowe
The Life and Beauties of Fanny Fern
by William U. Moulton
The Story of a Siberian Exile; Followed by a Narrative of Recent Events in Poland
by Rufin Piotrowski
Adventures and Recollections
by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 3 (of 3) From original and authentic sources
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Romney
by Randall Davies
Henry Ford: Highlights of His Life
by Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student
by S. C. (Simon Christian) Hammer
Great Englishwomen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools
by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 6, December 1842
by Various Authors
Doing My Bit For Ireland
by Margaret Skinnider
Sir Edwin Landseer
by Frederic George Stephens
Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal
by Caroline Bancroft
Un aventurier au XVIII siècle: Le chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810)
by Octave Homberg, Fernand Jousselin