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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 Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2
by Sir Edward Tyas Cook
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes
by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard
Paul Jones
by Hutchins Hapgood
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
by Hermann Hagedorn
The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
by Thomas Jefferson
Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 5 With a Memoir and Index
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
by James Kendall Hosmer
"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt
by Daniel Henderson
Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography
by William Roscoe Thayer
Noah Webster American Men of Letters
by Horace Elisha Scudder
Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 5
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
American Men of Action
by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete
by Lewis Goldsmith
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Howe Hall
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 1 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
by George Whitefield
Marse Henry: An Autobiography, Complete
by Henry Watterson
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Vivo de Zamenhof
by Edmond Privat
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
Sketches and Studies
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman
by Thomas F. G. Coates, R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell
Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence
by George McKinnon Wrong
Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire
by Mary Robinson, Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, T. (Tobias) Smollett
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The last travels of Ida Pfeiffer: inclusive of a visit to Madagascar, with a biographical memoir of the author
by Ida Pfeiffer
Mahatma Gandhi: The Man Who Became One With the Universal Being
by Romain Rolland
Confessions and Criticisms
by Julian Hawthorne
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
by Suetonius
William Nelson : a memoir
by Sir Daniel Wilson
Memories : A record of personal experience and adventure during four years of war
by Fannie A. Beers
Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties
by Joseph Augustus Seiss
The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on
by Walter Hawkins
Our Family Affairs, 1867-1896
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 7 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Niccolò Machiavelli e i suoi tempi, vol. II
by Pasquale Villari
A Turkish Woman's European Impressions
by hanoum Zeyneb
The Lone Star Defenders : a chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade
by S. B. (Samuel Benton) Barron
Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood
by Grace Greenwood
La vie de Rossini, tome I
by Stendhal
Golden Lads
by Arthur Gleason, Helen Hayes Gleason
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 68: September/October 1668
by Samuel Pepys
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 07
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
The Childhood of Distinguished Women
by Selina A. Bower
Galerij van Beroemde Nederlanders uit het tijdvak van Frederik Hendrik
by J. van (Jacob) Lennep
A narrative of some remarkable incidents, in the life of Solomon Bayley : formerly a slave, in the State of Delaware, North America
by Solomon Bayley
Reisescizzen und Tagebuchblätter aus Deutsch-Ostafrika
by Freiin von Frieda Bülow
Pietari Suuri: Venäjän ensimmäinen keisari
by K. O. Lindeqvist
Rizal's own story of his life
by José Rizal
Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
by Dame Shirley
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2)
by Frank Harris
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
by David Christie Murray
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)
by Plutarch
Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life
by Marion Harland
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete
by Louis Constant Wairy
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son
by graf Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
by Sir Ernest Scott
Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 2
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
by Albert Bigelow Paine
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities
by Paul Leland Haworth
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.
by Philip Vickers Fithian
Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
Captain John Smith
by Charles Dudley Warner
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
by Sir Hall Caine
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
by Samuel Smiles
A woman's journey round the world : from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor
by Ida Pfeiffer
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide An Autobiography
by Buffalo Bill
Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.
by James Boswell
Confessions of a Young Man
by George Moore
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
by Margaret Fuller
Sidney Lanier
by Edwin Mims
My Four Years in Germany
by James W. (James Watson) Gerard
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894
by Eugénie Hamerton, Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Memoirs of the Princesse de Ligne, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Apolonia Helena Massalska
Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression
by Edgar Saltus
There is No Death
by Florence Marryat
The Life of George Washington. In Words of One Syllable
by Josephine Pollard
A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
by George Alfred Townsend
Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker
by James Henry Rochelle