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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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Mémoires de Luther écrits par lui-même, Tome I
by Jules Michelet, Martin Luther
Memories of the future : Being memoirs of the years 1915‒1972, written in the year of grace 1988
by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
Rembrandt
by Jozef Israëls
Robert E. Lee: A Story and a Play
by Ruth Hill
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 22: to London
by Giacomo Casanova
Récits d'une tante (Vol. 2 de 4) Mémoires de la Comtesse de Boigne, née d'Osmond
by comtesse de Louise-Eléonore-Charlotte-Adélaide d'Osmond Boigne
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
by Various Authors
Étude sur Shakspeare
by François Guizot
Da Firenze a Digione: Impressioni di un reduce Garibaldino
by Ettore Socci
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 4
by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz
Abraham Lincoln
by Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt
Der Fall Otto Weininger: Eine psychiatrische Studie
by Ferdinand Probst
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
by David Livingstone
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
by Charles Bradlaugh, active 19th century Anthony Collins, John Watts
Autobiography and Selected Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Authors and Friends
by Annie Fields
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Thomas Carlyle
by John Nichol
Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands
by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Honoré de Balzac
by Albert Keim, Louis Lumet
Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2
by Earl of Thomas Cochrane Dundonald
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 19: November/December 1662
by Samuel Pepys
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
by Henry Morgenthau
Autobiography of a Child
by Hannah Lynch
Books Fatal to Their Authors
by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4
by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield
by Jr. Horatio Alger
The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days
by Daniel Knower
"Prison Life in Andersonville" With Special Reference to the Opening of Providence Spring
by John Levi Maile
Mémoires de Mme la marquise de La Rochejaquelein écrits par elle-même
by Marie-Louise-Victoire marquise de La Rochejaquelein
The Soul of the War
by Philip Gibbs
A Woman's Wartime Journal An account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt
by Dolly Sumner Lunt
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4.
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
William Gilbert, and Terrestial Magnetism in the Time of Queen Elizabeth A Discourse
by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson
American ideals, and other essays, social and political
by Theodore Roosevelt
Principal Cairns
by John Cairns
Average Americans
by Theodore Roosevelt
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Second Edition
by William Wells Brown
The Rocket: The Story of the Stephensons, Father and Son
by Helen C. (Helen Cross) Knight
Journal des Goncourt (Troisième volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Mein Leben und Streben
by Karl May
A Memoir of Transactions That Took Place in St. Domingo, in the Spring of 1799 Affording an Idea of the Present State of that Country, the Real Character of Its Black Governor, Toussaint L'ouverture, and the Safety of our West-India Islands, from Attack or Revolt
by active 1805 Marcus Rainsford
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 02
by Count Anthony Hamilton
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 04
by Louis Constant Wairy
Beschrijving van het Rijks-Planetarium te Franeker Van 1772 tot 1780 uitgedacht en vervaardigd door Eise Eisinga
by Jan Hendrik van Swinden, W. (Wopke) Eekhoff
Kuuluisia naisia 1 Maria Teresia - Johanna d'Arc
by Ellen Fries
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Mary Wollstonecraft
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary
by Carl Küchler
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History
by John G. (John George) Nicolay
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography
by Kenneth Hotham Vickers
The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army
by George S. (George Scott) Railton
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 4
by United States. Work Projects Administration
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment : or, A side show of the big show
by Samuel R. (Samuel Rush) Watkins
Aus meinem Leben
by Paul von Hindenburg
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
by Andrew Dickson White
Milton
by Mark Pattison
Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome IV.
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans
by James Baldwin
Watts (1817-1904)
by William Loftus Hare
Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold
by Jared Sparks
My Friends at Brook Farm
by John Van der Zee Sears
Station Life in New Zealand
by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
George Sand et ses amis
by Albert Le Roy
A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life
by Charles A. Siringo
Foch the Man: A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies
by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
by John Esten Cooke
Paris Vistas
by Helen Davenport Gibbons
Maria Antoinette Makers of History
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Female Scripture Biography, Volume II Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women
by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox
Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck
by John Hubert Greusel
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
by Fanny Burney
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In and Out of Rebel Prisons
by A. (Alonzo) Cooper
The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval
by Adrien Leblond
Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery
by Theodore Reichardt
The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 6, Num. 7, Serial No. 155, May 15, 1918
by Albert Bushnell Hart
My Disillusionment in Russia
by Emma Goldman
"Old Put" the patriot
by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 1
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 7 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe
by Mme. Du Hausset, princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe
Marse Henry: An Autobiography (Volume 1)
by Henry Watterson
Adrift on an Ice-Pan
by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 19: Back Again to Paris
by Giacomo Casanova
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 26: Spain
by Giacomo Casanova