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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
Stories of Great Musicians
by Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne
Achter de schermen
by Joseph J. Schürmann
The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess
by Anonymous
The Harmonicon. Part the First
by Various Authors
John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, volume 3 (of 3) : An autobiography edited by his brother
by John Gibson Paton
John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, volume 2 (of 3) : An autobiography edited by his brother
by John Gibson Paton
Life of George Washington, volume 2 of 5
by Washington Irving
Cavalry life in tent and field
by Mrs. Orsemus Bronson Boyd
Madame Pierre Curie
by Octave Béliard
The pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon
by Sei Shōnagon
Lawrence and the Arabs
by Robert Graves
A Yankee doctor in paradise
by S. M. (Sylvester Maxwell) Lambert
Chesterton, as seen by his contemporaries
by Cyril Clemens
My larger education : Being chapters from my experience
by Booker T. Washington
Aus meinem Leben
by Emil Fischer
Vie de Rancé
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
Merely the patient
by Henry Howard Harper
Véres napok, cári rabok = From president to prison
by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Cudjo's own story of the last African slaver
by Zora Neale Hurston
Beethoven
by Romain Rolland
My past and thoughts, vol. 1 (of 6) : The memoirs of Alexander Herzen
by Aleksandr Herzen
There was once a slave ... : The heroic story of Frederick Douglass
by Shirley Graham Du Bois
The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 3 (of 3)
by L. (Luke) Tyerman
Garibaldi, Vol. 2 (of 2) : (1860-1882)
by Giuseppe Guerzoni
A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 1 (of 3)
by Sir Henry Keppel
Further memories
by Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
When I was a boy in China
by Yan Phou Lee
An outlaw's diary: the Commune
by Cécile Tormay
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 13 (of 32)
by John Wesley
Minha formação
by Joaquim Nabuco
Journal de route de Henri Duveyrier
by Henri Duveyrier
Ruotsin suomalaismetsiä samoilemassa : Päiväkirjaa vuoden 1817 matkalta
by C. A. (Carl Axel) Gottlund
Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam
by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Jim
by A. A. Strachan
Christmas under three flags : Being memories of holiday festivities in the White House with "Old Hickory," in the palace of H. R. H. Prince of Prussia, afterwards Emperor William I., and at the Alamo with the Alcalde's daughter
by Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox
Tanulmányok I.
by Ferenc Herczeg
Mårbacka
by Selma Lagerlöf
Buddhan elämäntarina
by Chogyu Takayama
Viisi vuotta elämästäni, 1894-1899
by Alfred Dreyfus
Arkadia : Elämäni kuvia maailmaa kuvastelevilta palkeilta kansallisen kevättunnelman ajoilta
by Kaarle Halme
Dostoevsky
by André Gide
The diary of a Russian lady : reminiscences of Barbara Doukhovskoy (née princesse Galitzine)
by Varvara Dukhovskaia
Peter Whiffle : His life and works
by Carl Van Vechten
Memories (volume 1 of 2)
by Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
Walter Pater
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Memories (volume 2 of 2)
by Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont : Minister plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763
by J. Buchan (John Buchan) Telfer
Pythagoras and the Delphic mysteries
by Edouard Schuré
The patriarch of one hundred years : being reminiscences, historical and biographical, of Rev. Henry Boehm
by Henry Boehm
The inner life of Abraham Lincoln : Six months at the White House
by F. B. (Francis Bicknell) Carpenter
My adventures as a German secret agent
by Horst von der Goltz
A blighted life : A true story
by Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Pistols for two
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, George Jean Nathan
Colonial memories
by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
Round the Horn before the mast
by Basil Lubbock
Oration on Voltaire
by Victor Hugo, Julius Moritzen
Marjorie Fleming : a sketch : being the paper entitled "Pet Marjorie, a story of child-life fifty years ago"
by John Brown
A voice from Harper's Ferry; a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his men
by Osborne P. (Osborne Perry) Anderson
Feltalálók, felfedezők, nagy emberek
by Wilhelm Ostwald
Memorie della vita di Giosue Carducci (1835-1907)
by Giuseppe Chiarini
Some forgotten Pennsylvania heroines
by Henry W. (Henry Wharton) Shoemaker
Adolf Schreiber : Ein Musikerschicksal
by Max Brod
Kanamori's life-story : Told by himself; how the Higher Criticism wrecked a Japanese Christian—and how he came back
by Paul M. Kanamori
Arcképek a zenevilágból
by Viktor Papp
Vaiherikkailta vuosilta 2 : Sotavuodet ja oleskelu Saksassa
by Edv. (Edvard) Hjelt
Erämaan profeetta : Historiallinen elämäkerrallinen romaani
by Aukusti Alfred Oravala
Kuin unta näkeväiset... : Päiväkirjanlehtiä
by Helene Christaller
Kalle Sarkkisen lapsuuden muistelmia
by C. O. (Carl Oscar) Berg
Jääkärin päiväkirja
by Aarne Mustasalo
Madame de Staël
by L. Onerva
O. A. Hainari : Muistelmia
by O. (Oskar) Relander
A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Sir Henry Keppel
The hero of the Filipinos : The story of José Rizal, poet, patriot and martyr
by Charles Edward Russell, Eulogio Balan Rodriguez
Good-bye to all that : An autobiography
by Robert Graves
Famous funny fellows : Brief biographical sketches of American humorists
by William Montgomery Clemens
Give the man room : The story of Gutzon Borglum
by Robert J. (Robert Joseph) Casey, Mary Montgomery Borglum
The girlhood of Queen Victoria, vol. 1 (of 2) : A selection from Her Majesty's diaries between the years 1832 and 1840
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Occultists & mystics of all ages
by Ralph Shirley
Count Luckner, the Sea Devil
by Lowell Thomas, Graf von Felix Luckner
The life of the emperor Francis Joseph
by Francis Henry Gribble
A boys' life of Booker T. Washington
by Walter Clinton Jackson
The life of Henry Labouchere
by Algar Thorold
Aubrey Beardsley : the clown, the harlequin, the pierrot of his age
by Haldane Macfall
Garibaldi, Vol. 1 (of 2) : (1807-1859)
by Giuseppe Guerzoni
The remains of the late Mrs. Richard Trench : being selections from her journals, letters, & other papers
by Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench
The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B.
by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, Volume 1 (of 2) : During four-and-twenty years in the east; with revelations of life in the zenāna
by Fanny Parkes Parlby
A Moslem seeker after God : showing Islam at its best in the life and teaching of al-Ghazali, mystic and theologian of the eleventh century
by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
by André Michaux, Thaddeus Mason Harris, François André Michaux
The adventures of a modern occultist
by Oliver Bland
My life in Sarawak
by Lady Margaret Brooke
