Biography books

Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete

Lyndon Orr

Famous Affinities of History, by Lyndon Orr, is a sweeping biographical survey that treats England’s monarchs…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

Elbert Hubbard

The work is a biographical narrative that traces the early encounter and developing intimacy between the…

Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography

W. Stebbing

The work is a scholarly biography of Sir Walter Ralegh, written by William Stebbing and catalogued under…

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

The volume is a sweeping biographical compendium that presents more than two hundred sketches of the most…

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Volume 1 is a sweeping biographical compendium that sketches the lives of more…

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 2 is a compendium of concise biographical sketches that together portray the…

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Volume 4 is a biographical compendium that sketches the lives of more than two…

James Watt

Andrew Carnegie

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of James Watt, the Scottish inventor whose steam engine…

Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold

Archibald Murray Howe

Paul Jones

Hutchins Hapgood

Great leaders: Historic portraits from the great historians

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

Hermann Hagedorn

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters

The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson

Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

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

Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs

Osgood E. Fuller

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers

John Greenleaf Whittier

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mysteries of the missing

Edward H. Smith

My Memories of Eighty Years

Chauncey M. Depew

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II

Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History