- Listenly
- Browse
- Bookshelves
- Biographies
bookshelf
Biographies
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
The white Indian boy : The story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones
by Elijah Nicholas Wilson
L'Anglais mangeur d'opium Traduit de l'Anglais et augmenté par Alfred de Musset, avec une notice par M. Arthur Heulhard
by Thomas De Quincey
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 09
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave : Containing his history of 25 years in bondage, and his providential escape
by John Thompson
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62
by Samuel Pepys
Vörösmarty életrajza
by Pál Gyulai
Nuoren ylioppilaan kirjeitä 1850-luvulta
by Julius Krohn
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
by J. (John) Wilkinson
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
by Wayne Whipple
The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers
by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems
The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
by Frank Harris
分甘余話
by Shizhen Wang
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
by Thomas Jefferson
The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer
by Isambard Brunel
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
by Ferdinand Gregorovius
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself
by De Witt C. (De Witt Clinton) Peters
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
by John Dryden
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21
by Thomas Carlyle
John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court
by Edward Samuel Corwin
The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor
by Sir George Webbe Dasent
Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement
by Harry Vissering
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 30: Old Age and Death
by Giacomo Casanova
A Yankee in the Trenches
by Robert Derby Holmes
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2
by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Queen Victoria
by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
by Elbert Hubbard
The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812
by Walter R. Nursey
列女傳
by Xiang Liu
Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence
by George Haven Putnam
My Boyhood
by John Burroughs
Rulers of India: Lord Clive
by G. B. (George Bruce) Malleson
Loom and spindle : or life among the early mill girls with a sketch of "the Lowell offering" and some of its contributors
by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2.
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2
by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
by James Fenimore Cooper
Correggio A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation
by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller
by Allan Pinkerton
Fathers of Biology
by Charles McRae
Portraits et études; Lettres inédites de Georges Bizet
by Hugues Imbert, Georges Bizet
Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (3/3)
by baron de Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin Marbot
Charles Fourier: Sein Leben und seine Theorien.
by August Bebel
English Men of Letters: Coleridge
by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
by Lydia Maria Child
Orazioni
by Ada Negri
Abraham Lincoln : A memorial discourse
by T. M. (Thomas Mears) Eddy
The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 1
by Ármin Vámbéry
Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time
by Charles Kingsley
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)
by Daniel Defoe
Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner.
by C. A. (Cyrus Augustus) Bartol
My Robin
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Jaime de Magalhães Lima
by José Agostinho
Some eminent Victorians: Personal recollections in the world of art and letters
by J. Comyns (Joseph Comyns) Carr
The Book of Gallant Vagabonds
by Henry Beston
Botticelli
by Emil Schaeffer
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610c-12
by John Lothrop Motley
Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 1 Kuvauksia
by Anders Ramsay
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1613-15
by John Lothrop Motley
Mathias Aleksanteri Castrén
by Anna-Maria Tallgren
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
by Walt Whitman
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
When Life Was Young: At the Old Farm in Maine
by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
by Giorgio Vasari
My Reminiscences
by Rabindranath Tagore
The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting
by Thomas Commerford Martin
Robert Louis Stevenson
by Margaret Moyes Black
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
by John Bunyan
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Famous European Artists
by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Annie Besant: An Autobiography
by Annie Besant
Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research
by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
Life and times of Frederick Douglass : His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history
by Frederick Douglass
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete
by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete
by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite
Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)
by James Boswell
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
by Winston Churchill
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis, v. 1-2
by Benjamin Perley Poore
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820
by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6.
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
Andrew Marvell
by Augustine Birrell
Father Duffy's story : a tale of humor and heroism, of life and death with the Fighting Sixty-ninth
by Francis Patrick Duffy
Josephine Makers of History
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
by Charles Lamb
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself
by Venture Smith
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 05
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Millet
by Percy Moore Turner