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Top authorsSamuel Pepys Giacomo Casanova United States. Work Projects Administration John S. C. Abbott Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne John Morley Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Jacob Abbott Jean-Jacques Rousseau William Dean Howells

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

J. G. Lockhart

Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments

Louise Imogen Guiney

My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825

Alexandre Dumas

The People of the Abyss

Jack London

Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

Life of Christ

Giovanni Papini

Lafcadio Hearn

Nina H. Kennard

Charles Robert Maturin: His Life and Works

Niilo Idman

The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 1 of 2)

Florence May

The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women

Frederic Rowland Marvin

Cover of The Ladies of the White House; Or, in the Home of the Presidents
Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present Time—1789–1881

The Ladies of the White House; Or, in the Home of the Presidents Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present Time—1789–1881

Laura C. Holloway

A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833

John Thomas Smith

The life of Mazzini

Bolton King

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

Cover of The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel
Comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers.

The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel Comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers.

Thomas H. Prescott