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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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唐才子傳
by active 13th century-14th century Wenfang Xin
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829
by Various Authors
Makers of Electricity
by Brother Potamian, James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
You can't win
by Jack Black
Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916
by Olga Metchnikoff
William Blake, the Man
by Charles Gardner
Balzac
by Frederick Lawton
A Civil Servant in Burma
by Sir Herbert Thirkell White
陶庵夢憶
by Dai Zhang
The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results
by Jean-Marie Aladel
Autobiography of Mother Jones
by Mother Jones
Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 1 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence
by Richard Cocks
Automobile Biographies An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads
by Lyman Horace Weeks
Calvin Wilson Mateer, forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China : a biography
by D. W. (Daniel Webster) Fisher
Schattenspiel um Goethe
by Ludwig Sternaux
The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone
by Thomas Augustus Watson
Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.
by Lucy Phillimore
Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2)
by George Ticknor Curtis
Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States.
by J. H. (Jonathan Harrington) Green
A lady's captivity among Chinese pirates in the Chinese seas
by Fanny Loviot
Charlotte de Bourbon, princesse d'Orange
by comte Jules Delaborde
Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines
by Henry Charles Moore
The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir
by Marquis of Edward Somerset Worcester
Giotto
by Harry Quilter
Gutenberg, and the Art of Printing
by Emily C. (Emily Clemens) Pearson
Heroes of science : Botanists, zoologists, and geologists
by P. Martin (Peter Martin) Duncan
Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century
by Montague Massey
Earliest Years at Vassar: Personal Recollections
by Frances Ann Wood
San Ignacio de Loyola
by Benjamín Marcos
Personal sketches of his own times, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Sir Jonah Barrington
Clemenceau, the Man and His Time
by H. M. (Henry Mayers) Hyndman
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
by Henry Dawson
Cardinal Newman as a Musician
by Edward Bellasis
The Wright Brothers
by Anonymous
Björnstjerne Björnson, 1832-1910
by William Morton Payne
Robert Louis Stevenson
by E. Blantyre (Evelyn Blantyre) Simpson
The Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, for Children, in Easy Words
by Mary L. (Mary Lynn) Williamson
The Memoirs of Charles H. Cramp
by Augustus C. Buell
Dagboek eener reize ter walvisch- en robbenvangst, in de jaren 1777 en 1778 door Hidde Dirks Kat
by Hidde Dirks Kat
Isa Asp: Nuoren pohjalaisen runoilijaneitosen elämäntarina
by Helmi Krohn
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
by Samuel Felton
Peter Cooper
by Rossiter W. (Rossiter Worthington) Raymond
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. I (of VI), "Venetian Years" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
by Giacomo Casanova
My Adventures with Your Money
by George Graham Rice
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
by Harry Kemp
The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory
by Stanley F. Horn
Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890
by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Pintoricchio
by Evelyn March Phillipps
The Báb: The Herald of the Day of Days
by H. M. Balyuzi
Fifty Years of Golf
by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson
The Opium Habit
by Horace B. Day
Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Longleat in the county of Wilts, the seat of the Marquis of Bath
by Mary Louisa Boyle
The Life of Lyman Trumbull
by Horace White
Slipstream: the autobiography of an air craftsman
by Eugene E. Wilson
Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by John D. (John Donald) Carrick
Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
by George H. (George Henry) Ham
Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
by Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal
Charles Stewart Parnell: His Love Story and Political Life
by Kitty O'Shea
Gabriele Rossetti: A Versified Autobiography
by Gabriele Rossetti
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff
by Carlton
The voyage of the "Deutschland"
by Paul König
Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity
by E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware) Packard
Aventures de l'abbé de Choisy habillé en femme
by abbé de Choisy
A German deserter's war experience
by Anonymous
Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate...
by Jacob Dunham
Samuel Reynolds House of Siam, pioneer medical missionary, 1847-1876
by George Haws Feltus
Sarah Bernhardt as I knew her : the memoirs of Madame Pierre Berton as told to Basil Woon
by Mme. Pierre Berton
Mayne Reid: A Memoir of his Life
by Elizabeth Hyde Reid
Fénelon: The Mystic
by James Mudge
Deems Taylor
by John Tasker Howard
An American Girl in Munich: Impressions of a Music Student
by Mabel W. (Mabel Wheeler) Daniels
"The spirit of '76": Some recollections of the artist and the painting
by Henry Kelsey Devereux
Twenty Years on Horseback; or, Itinerating in West Virginia
by W. M. (William Marion) Weekley
Seedtime in Kashmir: A Memoir of William Jackson Elmslie
by William Jackson Elmslie
Wanderlust
by Robert Rice Reynolds
Reminiscences of Tottenham
by Harriet Couchman
The Sinn Fein Rebellion as I Saw It.
by Mrs. Hamilton Norway
The Secret of Heroism: A Memoir of Henry Albert Harper
by William Lyon Mackenzie King
Reminiscences of service with the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, and a memorial of Col. George H. Browne
by Pardon Elisha Tillinghast
Rachel Jackson
by Nellie Treanor Stokes
Patruuna Jönssonin muistelmat
by Sigurd
The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon
When the movies were young
by Linda Arvidson
Wallace; or, the Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace, of Ellerslie
by active 1470-1492 Blind Hary
Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings
by F. G. (Frank Gibbs) Allen
The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
by Opal Stanley Whiteley
