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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
E. P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life
by Mary A. (Mary Abigail) Roe
Lord Lawrence
by Sir Richard Carnac Temple
Mary Boyle, her book
by Mary Louisa Boyle
H. G. Hawker, airman: his life and work
by Muriel Hawker
Claros varones de Castilla, y Letras
by Fernando del Pulgar
Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell
by Frederick Bridge
Memoiren einer Grossmutter, Band I Bilder aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands im 19. Jahrhundert
by Pauline Wengeroff
Under England's flag : from 1804-1809 the memoirs, diary and correspondence of Charles Boothy, Captain of Royal Engineers, compiled by the last survivors of his family
by Charles Boothby
Educational laws of Virginia : The personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read
by Margaret Crittenden Douglass
The Lusitania's Last Voyage Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, May 7, 1915
by Jr. Charles Emelius Lauriat
La marquise de Condorcet: Sa Famille, son Salon, ses Amis, 1764-1822
by Antoine Guillois
L'Illustration, No. 0050, 10 Février 1844
by Various Authors
A Chronicle of Jails
by Darrell Figgis
Keisarinna Elisabet
by Clara Tschudi
Leo Mechelinin elämä
by Th. (Thiodolf) Rein
Lola Montez : An adventuress of the 'forties
by Edmund B. (Edmund Basil) D'Auvergne
The Condition of Catholics Under James I. Father Gerard's Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot
by John Gerard
An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803
by Major Alexander Gillespie
Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait
by Peter Lauridsen
A Half Century Among the Siamese and the Lāo: An Autobiography
by Daniel McGilvary
Comrade Kropotkin
by Victor Robinson
Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight
by John Willcock
The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries
by John N. (John Newton) Reynolds
The life of Midhat Pasha; a record of his services, political reforms, banishment, and judicial murder
by Ali Haydar Mithat
The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli
by Johann Jakob Hottinger
Personal sketches of his own times, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Sir Jonah Barrington
Biographical Notices of the Portraits at Hinchingbrook
by Mary Louisa Boyle
William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster
by Ernest Harold Pearce
Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius
by O.S.B. Sister Mary Agnes
Die selige Christina von Stommeln
by Arnold Steffens
Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln
by James H. Shaw
Vasárnapi Könyv. 1914. Első félév 17. füzet
by Anonymous
Σύντομος αφήγησις του βίου του Ιωάννου Καποδιστρίου
by Laurentios S. Vrokines
James Sherman Kimball : A sketch
by James William Kimball
Emlékbeszédek (2. kötet)
by Pál Gyulai
Kuinka meistä tuli kirjailijoita: Suomalaisten kirjailijoiden nuoruudenmuistelmia
by Various Authors
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
by J. Milton (John Milton) Mackie
Dürer Artist-Biographies
by M. F. (Moses Foster) Sweetser
Philip Massinger
by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank
My Wonderful Visit
by Charlie Chaplin
Memories of a Musical Life
by William Mason
Robert Fulton
by Alice Crary Sutcliffe
The Maréchale (Catherine Booth-Clibborn)
by James Strahan
Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Weston, the seat of the Earl of Bradford
by Mary Louisa Boyle
A wheel within a wheel : How I learned to ride the bicycle, with some reflections by the way
by Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth) Willard
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848
by Various Authors
From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush
by C. W. Bryde
Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years
by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849
by Various Authors
A Soldier in the Philippines
by Needom N. Freeman
The life of a fossil hunter
by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg
Travels of an Arab merchant in Soudan (the Black Kingdoms of Central Africa)
by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Tūnisī
The Great Harry Thaw Case; Or, A Woman's Sacrifice
by Benjamin H. Atwell
Women as army surgeons : Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919
by Flora Murray
The Career of Leonard Wood
by Joseph Hamblen Sears
L'Illustration, No. 0002, 11 Mars 1843
by Various Authors
Memoiren einer Grossmutter, Band II Bilder aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands im 19. Jahrhundert
by Pauline Wengeroff
The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Freiherr von Friedrich Hügel
Dorothea Beale: Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1858-1906
by Elizabeth Helen Shillito
The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
by Mary C. (Mary C. Currey) Dorris
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History
by William MacGillivray
Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler: His Life and Work
by Gross Alexander
When They Were Girls
by Rebecca Deming Moore
Fabre, Poet of Science
by Georges Victor Legros
The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I
by James Henry Mapleson
John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records
by William Wallace Tooker
The Nation Behind Prison Bars
by George L. (George Lewis) Herr
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832
by Various Authors
William Hamilton Gibson: artist—naturalist—author
by John Coleman Adams
Lovis Corinth
by Georg Biermann
L'Illustration, No. 0012, 20 Mai 1843
by Various Authors
J'accuse (Ich klage an): Zwei Jahre in französischer Gefangenschaft
by Max Georg Brausewetter
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 369, January 22, 1887
by Various Authors
The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria
by Eleanor E. Tremayne
Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol
by Myrtle Cheney Murdock
The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter
by Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell
Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences
by William S. Nelson
The Life of Henry Bradley Plant Founder and President of the Plant System of Railroads and Steamships and Also of the Southern Express Company
by G. Hutchinson (George Hutchinson) Smyth
Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky: A Sketch
by David Wendel Yandell
Vääpeli Lemminkäisen päiväkirja Suomen kaartin retkestä Konstantinopolin muurien edustalle vuosina 1877-1878
by Anonymous
Pioneer Auto Museum and Antique Town, Murdo, South Dakota
by S.D.) Pioneer Auto Museum (Murdo
The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa
by Paul Barron Watson
The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester
by P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson
The Poetical Works of William Collins; With a Memoir
by William Collins
The Days of My Life: An Autobiography
by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Dorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison
by Ella K. (Ella Kent) Barnard
Prince Eugene, the Noble Knight
by L. (Ludwig) Würdig