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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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Kriegsgefangen : Erlebtes 1870.
by Theodor Fontane
Jacques Louis David and the French Revolution
by Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner
My pets : Real happenings in my aviary
by Marshall Saunders
A lady of the last century
by Dr. (John) Doran
A Croatian composer : notes toward the study of Joseph Haydn
by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow
St. Nicholas, Vol. 13, No. 12, October 1886
by Various Authors
A year in China : and a narrative of capture and imprisonment, when homeward bound, on board the rebel pirate Florida
by Martha Noyes Williams
With the Connaught Rangers : in quarters, camp, and on leave
by Edward Herbert Maxwell
My Lorraine journal
by Edith O'Shaughnessy
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 12 (of 32)
by John Wesley
On the borders of pigmy land
by Ruth B. Fisher
The private journal of Judge-Advocate Larpent : attached to the head-quarters of Lord Wellington during the Peninsular War, from 1812 to its close
by F. Seymour (Francis Seymour) Larpent
Reminiscences of an army nurse during the Civil War
by Adelaide W. Smith
Les confessions d'un converti
by Robert Hugh Benson
Women in American history
by Grace Humphrey
Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 2 (of 2) : kept throughout the campaign of 1815
by Cavalié Mercer
L'Allemand : souvenirs et réflexions d'un prisonnier de guerre
by Jacques Rivière
Goethes Lebenskunst
by Wilhelm Bode
Herinneringen
by Selma Lagerlöf
Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci
by Sigmund Freud
Fredrika Bremer : Kuvaus vuosisatamme alkupuolelta
by Lucina Hagman
The story of Dr. Duff
by A. L. O. E.
Un grand missionnaire : le cardinal Lavigerie
by Georges Goyau
'Trusty and well beloved' : the little record of Arthur Oscar Hornung, Second lieutenant 3rd (attached 2nd) Essex Regiment
by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Den heliga Birgitta
by Lydia Wahlström
Sainte Jeanne de Chantal
by Victor Giraud
Emlékeimből
by Mór Jókai
La taverna intel·lectual : (De les meves memòries)
by Pompeyo Gener
Találkozásaim az antiszemitizmussal
by Lajos Nagy
Lord Northcliffe
by Andrée Viollis
Kokemukseni vakoojana
by Baron Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell
Az én életem regénye
by Mór Jókai
George Eliot och den engelska naturalistiska romanen : en literär studie
by Helena Westermarck
Teatterikirja : Kirjoitelmia ja näyttelijäkuvia
by Lauri Haarla
Voimakasta väkeä
by Aino Malmberg
Svinhufvudin kertomukset Siperiasta
by Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Herrana ja heittiönä : Pommarin ja värvärin muistelmia sotavuosilta
by Sulo-Weikko Pekkola
Bűneim
by Ernő Szép
Barnum
by M. R. (Morris Robert) Werner
Nicolaus of Damascus' life of Augustus : Translated with a commentary
by of Damascus Nicolaus
Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912
by G. Greville (George Greville) Moore
Memoirs of a revolutionist
by kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Eccentricities of genius : memories of famous men and women of the platform and stage
by James B. (James Burton) Pond
Frederick Chopin : A man of solitude
by comte Guy de Pourtalès
Memoranda of art and artists, anecdotal and biographical
by Joseph Sandell
Life and works of Alexander Csoma de Körös : A biography compiled chiefly from hitherto unpublished data
by Tivadar Duka
A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 2 (of 3)
by Sir Henry Keppel
The love of an uncrowned queen : Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, Count Königsmarck
by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
With the Empress Dowager of China
by Katharine A. (Katharine Augusta) Carl
Episodes before thirty
by Algernon Blackwood
Lessons from the life of Florence Nightingale
by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Albina) Aikens
Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
by Alexander Ross
With the Indians in France
by Sir James Willcocks
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 11 (of 32)
by John Wesley
Babe Ruth's own book of baseball
by Babe Ruth
Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops, late 1st S. C. Volunteers
by Susie King Taylor
Reminiscences of a student's life
by Jane Ellen Harrison
D'Eon de Beaumont, his life and times : Compiled chiefly from unpublished papers and letters
by Octave Homberg, Fernand Jousselin
A Resident's wife in Nigeria
by Constance Belcher Larymore
Life in the sick-room : Essays
by Harriet Martineau
Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings
by Constance Hill
Islam saharien : chez ceux qui guettent (journal d'un témoin)
by Jean Pommerol
Tolstoï
by Stefan Zweig
Mohammed
by Roy F. (Roy Floyd) Dibble
Ricordi di gioventù : Cose vedute o sapute - 1847-1860
by Giovanni Visconti Venosta
Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1571-1638 : a sketch of his life and work, with an especial reference to his large world map of 1605, facsimile of the unique copy belonging to the Hispanic society of America
by Edward Luther Stevenson
My life and balloon experiences : With a supplementary chapter on military ballooning
by Henry Tracey Coxwell
25 : Being a young man's candid recollections of his elders and betters
by Beverley Nichols
"Holding the line"
by Harold Baldwin
Two years' captivity in German East Africa : being the personal experiences of Surgeon E. C. H., Royal Navy
by E. C. H. (Ernest Charles Holtom) (Surgeon)
Kaspar Hauser : Beispiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben des Menschen
by Ritter von Anselm Feuerbach
Claude Monet; les Nympheas
by Georges Clemenceau
Tex : A chapter in the life of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
by Stephen McKenna
Alexander Balfour : a memoir
by R. H. (Robert Henry) Lundie
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 75, No. 461, March, 1854 by Various
by Various Authors
Incidents on land and water : or, Four years on the Pacific coast; being a narrative of the burning of the ships Nonantum, Humayoon, and Fanchon, together with many startling and interesting adventures on sea and land
by D. B. (Dolly B.) Bates
Das Leben und die Abentheuer des Armen Mannes im Tockenburg : Von ihm selbst erzählt
by Ulrich Bräker
Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 1 (of 2) : kept throughout the campaign of 1815
by Cavalié Mercer
Arabi and his household
by Lady Gregory
Twenty years in Roumania
by Maude Rea Parkinson
Gordon, der Held von Khartum : ein Lebensbild
by Anonymous
Gustaf Fröding
by Ida Bäckmann
Tolsztoj
by Stefan Zweig
Muistoja ja kuvitelmia
by Aino Ackté
Markiisitar de Pompadour : Kuvaus Ludvig XV:n rakastajattaresta
by Dora Duncker
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
by Maila Talvio
Tykkimiehen muistelmia Karjalan rintamalta
by Aarno Karimo
Vaiherikkailta vuosilta 1 : Toiminta yliopistossa ja senaatissa routavuosina
by Edv. (Edvard) Hjelt
Viimeinen tsaaritar : Venäjän keisarinnan Aleksandran tarina
by Vladimir Poliakoff