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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

De l'amour

by Charles Baudelaire

The citizen-soldier : or, Memoirs of a volunteer

by John Beatty

Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03

by Samuel de Champlain

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben

by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Rasputin the Rascal Monk Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time.

by William Le Queux

Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 1 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England

by Sir Lascelles Wraxall

A narrative of the mutiny, on board His Majesty's ship Bounty : and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat

by William Bligh

The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier

by Stephen Leacock

Queen Victoria

by Lytton Strachey

Lavengro : The Scholar; The Gypsy; The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)

by George Borrow

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 1

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself

by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

Life of Robert Burns

by Thomas Carlyle

A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves Poems of James Barron Hope

by J. B. H. (James Barron Hope)

Rube Burrow, king of outlaws, and his band of train robbers : An accurate and faithful history of their exploits and adventures

by George W. (George Washington) Agee

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 13: Grammarians and Rhetoricians

by Suetonius

Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June"

by Woman's Press Club of New York City

My Tropic Isle

by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 41: January/February 1665-66

by Samuel Pepys

Eine deutsche Frau im Innern Deutsch-Ostafrikas Elf Jahre nach Tagebuchblättern erzählt

by Magdalene Prince

Alexandre Herculano

by Manoel Caldas Cordeiro

Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-19

by John Lothrop Motley

The boys in white : The experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington

by Julia S. (Julia Susan) Wheelock

Vita di Guarino Veronese

by Remigio Sabbadini

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political

by Franklin K. Lane

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

by Elbert Hubbard

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

by John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller

Edison: His Life and Inventions

by Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin

Chapters from My Autobiography

by Mark Twain

George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 3 (of 3)

by George Eliot

Jane Austen and her works

by Sarah Tytler

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers

by Philip Gosse

The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 2 of 2)

by John Evelyn

Lincoln's yarns and stories : A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller

by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series

by Jacob Abbott

Records of a Family of Engineers

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Cowper

by Goldwin Smith

John Brown

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843

by Samuel Smiles

Lady John Russell: A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence

Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time.

by Sir John Rennie

Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley

by William Henry Giles Kingston

The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative

by Robert Lansing

The house on Henry Street

by Lillian D. Wald

Fifteen Years Among the Top-Knots; Or, Life in Korea

by Lillias H. (Lillias Horton) Underwood

Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood)

by Marie Bashkirtseff

Prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, with a selection from his letters and a memoir

by Arthur Hugh Clough

Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1

by Leigh Hunt

Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV

by baron de Etienne-Léon Lamothe-Langon

Bullets & Billets

by Bruce Bairnsfather

The Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race

by William Wells Brown

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself

by Henry Bibb

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 11: Paris and Holland

by Giacomo Casanova

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 1

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs

by John Morley

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 5 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen

by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People

by Henry Blanc

The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. The East

by Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Wyckoff

A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865

by Thomas Hughes

Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 3

by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite

Ma captivité en Abyssinie ...sous l'empereur Théodoros

by Henry Blanc

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65

by Samuel Pepys

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 12

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Fer et feu au Soudan, vol. 2 of 2

by Freiherr von Rudolf Carl Slatin

Elias Lönnrotin nuoruuden ajoilta Laukon kartanossa

by Emil Fredrik Nervander

Elogio Historico do Conde de Ficalho

by Eduardo Burnay

Memorials of Francis Storr: Sermons

by Edward Hoare, Rev. W. May

Orville Southerland Cox, Pioneer of 1847

by Adelia B. Cox Sidwell

Sir Walter Raleigh and the Air History: A Personal Recollection

by H. A. (Henry Albert) Jones

John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Antony van Leeuwenhoek, de ontdekker der infusorien, 1675-1875

by P. J. Haaxman

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

by Cornelius Tacitus

My Life and Loves, Vol. 1 (of 4)

by Frank Harris

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)

by Shearjashub Spooner

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy

by George Willis Cooke

Nero Makers of History Series

by Jacob Abbott

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1

by Fanny Burney

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam

by John Lord

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals

by Thomas Moore

The Surrender of Napoleon Being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815

by Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland

The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England

by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 1 of 2)

by William E. (William Eleazar) Barton

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

by Elbert Hubbard

Joel Chandler Harris' life of Henry W. Grady including his writings and speeches

Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma

by Giorgio Vasari

The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself

by John Galt

Frederick Douglass

by Booker T. Washington

The Story of Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 2

by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery

Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War

by Basil Wilson Duke, Thomas Henry Hines, Frank E. Moran, William Pittenger, A. E. (Adolphus Edwards) Richards, W. H. (William Henry) Shelton, Orlando B. Willcox, John Taylor Wood