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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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The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska, Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel
by Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa
Fletcher of Madeley
by Margaret Allen
Confessions of Boyhood
by John Albee
The Black Watch: A Record in Action
by Joe Cassells
The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences
by Hosea Quinby
At the back of the world : Wanderings over many lands and seas
by George Pugh, Jennie Pugh
Harper's Young People, June 28, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly
by Various Authors
From Convent to Conflict; Or, A Nun's Account of the Invasion of Belgium
by Sister Marie Antoine
Victor Hugo, son oeuvre poétique
by Ernest Dupuy
Maria Theresa
by W. O. von Horn
On the mechanism of the physiological action of the cathartics
by John Bruce MacCallum
Mme de La Fayette (6e édition)
by comte d' Haussonville
The life, travels, exploits, frauds and robberies of Charles Speckman, alias Brown, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday 23d of November, 1763
by Charles Speckman
Hermann Stieffel, Soldier Artist of the West
by Edgar M. Howell
Voyage à Montbard
by Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
A. van Dyck
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Emil Rathenau und das elektrische Zeitalter
by Felix Pinner
Old Days at Beverly Farms
by Mary Larcom Dow
Lead Kindly Light: Its Origin and Its Romance
by Allan Sutherland
The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888
by Kathleen Lambert
Champlain
by Gabriel Hanotaux
Die Abenteuer des Fliegers von Tsingtau: Meine Erlebnisse in drei Erdteilen
by Gunther Plüschow
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume LXII., No. 381, July, 1847
by Various Authors
Reseanteckningar från Orienten åren 1843-1849 I
by Georg August Wallin
Sketches of Fifteen Members of Worcester Fire Society
by Isaac Davis
The Will of Samuel Appleton, with Remarks by One of the Executors
by Samuel Appleton
Verrocchio
by Hans Mackowsky
With Grenfell on the Labrador
by Fullerton L. (Fullerton Leonard) Waldo
Multatuli: Multatuli en Mr. J van Lennep; Multatuli en de Vrouwen
by Lodewijk van Deyssel
Chains and Freedom: or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living
by Peter Wheeler, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards) Lester
Le Cardinal de Richelieu
by Hyacinthe Corne
The Shipwrecked Orphans A true narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of John Ireland and William Doyley, who were wrecked in the ship Charles Eaton, on an island in the South Seas
by John (Seaman) Ireland
Old Coaching Days Some Incidents in the Life of Moses James Nobbs, the last of the Mail Coach Guards
by Moses James Nobbs
Humoristische Erinnerungen aus meinem academischen Leben, Erstes Bändchen in Heidelberg und Kiel in den Jahren 1817-1819
by Theodor von Kobbe
Visszaemlékezéseim (1. kötet)
by Alajos Degré
Frederick Hale, a biographical sketch
by Anonymous
Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo II
by Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.
by James Knowles, Matilda Darroch Knowles
Benjamin Franklin : Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes
by Benjamin Franklin
The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports
by Charles Grolleau
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
by Modest Chaikovskii
Schopenhauer
by Thomas Whittaker
The Story of Mary MacLane
by Mary MacLane
The Empress Frederick: a memoir
by Anonymous
S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance World
by Sol Hurok
Adam Smith
by Francis W. (Francis Wrigley) Hirst
George Fox: An Autobiography
by George Fox
King Robert the Bruce
by Alexander Falconer Murison
Wagner as I Knew Him
by Ferdinand Praeger
Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression
by Baron John Campbell Campbell
Oliver Goldsmith
by E. S. Lang (Ernest Segar Lang) Buckland
Rulers of India: Albuquerque
by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1847
by Various Authors
Queen Maria Sophia of Naples, a Forgotten Heroine
by Carl Küchler
Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham
by Elizabeth Raikes
Private Papers of William Wilberforce
by William Wilberforce
The Romance of Madame Tussaud's
by John Theodore Tussaud
Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books
by Horatia K. F. Gatty Eden
The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their Work
by Charles Octavius Boothe
William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances
by William L. (William Linn) Keese
Raiders of the Sarhad Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War
by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer
George Brown
by John Lewis
Elizabeth Fry
by Emma Raymond Pitman
The story of a summer : or, Journal leaves from Chappaqua
by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland
Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 1 (of 2) : Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761
by Mrs. (Elizabeth) Montagu
School-life at Winchester College : or, the reminiscences of a Winchester junior under the old régime, 1835-40.
by Robert Blachford Mansfield
Anselme Adorne, Sire de Corthuy, Pèlerin De Terre-Sainte Sa Famille, Sa Vie, Ses Voyages Et Son Temps
by Edmond De La Coste
History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business
by Chauncey Jerome
The Romance of the Reaper
by Herbert Newton Casson
Translation of the Life of Omar ibn Said: Manuscript No. 1
by Omar ibn Said
Auld lang syne
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Behind the Footlights
by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
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John Leech, His Life and Work, Vol. 2 [of 2]
by William Powell Frith
The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church
by Elizabeth Schoffen
The Secrets of a Savoyard
by Henry A. Lytton
Cadet Life at West Point
by Hugh T. Reed
Briefe, Aufzeichnungen und Aphorismen. Erster Band
by Franz Marc
Holman Hunt
by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Coleridge
Lord William Beresford, V.C., Some Memories of a Famous Sportsman, Soldier and Wit
by Mrs. Stuart Menzies
Journal of a Cavalry Officer; Including the Memorable Sikh Campaign of 1845-1846
by W. W. W. (William Wellington Waterloo) Humbley
A Character of King Charles the Second And Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
by Marquis of George Savile Halifax
Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885
by Various Authors
Life of Father Hecker
by Walter Elliott
Door duisternis tot licht: Gedachten over en voor het Javaansche volk
by Raden Adjeng Kartini
The story of the Toys
by Mary Harris Toy Dodge
James Oliver Curwood, Disciple of the Wilds
by Hobart Donald Swiggett
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by Plutarch
Sir John Everett Millais
by A. L. (Alfred Lys) Baldry
The life and times of John Kelly, tribune of the people
by J. Fairfax (James Fairfax) McLaughlin
The Experiences of a Bandmaster
by John Philip Sousa
Mary S. Peake: The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe
by Lewis C. (Lewis Conger) Lockwood
Private Peat
by Harold Reginald Peat