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Real Lives, Explained

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

The library

6,448 lives & letters

Elizabeth Hooton

Emily Manners · biography

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 1 (of 2)

Mrs. Montagu · biography

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 2 (of 2)

Mrs. Montagu · biography

The story in one page

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2

A woman collects 68 cases of letters and reshapes the social landscape of 18th-century London.

Mrs. Montagu · ideas

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary

Carl Küchler · biography

Ellen Terry and Her Sisters

T. Edgar Pemberton · play

Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch

Eva Shaw McLaren · biography

Émile Verhaeren

Stefan Zweig · poetry

William Dean Howells · biography

Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly · novel

The story in one page

A reclusive writer lives among moors and graveyards, transmuting family wreckage into a singular, haunting world.

A. Mary F. Robinson · biography

M. C. Plehn · biography

Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century: Literary Portraits

Georg Brandes · biography

Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 1 of 2

G. T. Bettany · biography

Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2

G. T. Bettany · biography

Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 1 (of 3)

James Montgomery · biography

Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Montgomery · biography

Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)

James Montgomery · biography

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey · biography

Emma Goldman: Biographical Sketch

Charles Allan Madison · biography

Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware

Hilaire Belloc · novel

Emperor William First, the Great War and Peace Hero

A. Walter · biography

Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon

L. Mühlbach · novel

Squire Bancroft · biography

Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist"

Charles T. Porter · biography

Engineers and their triumphs

F. M. Holmes · biography

English and American tool builders

Joseph Wickham Roe · biography

The story in one page

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities

A catalog of Regency dandies, fanatical preachers, and misers who lived in dust-heaps or died for their wigs.

John Timbs · collection

English Men of Letters: Coleridge

H. D. Traill · biography

English Men of Letters: Crabbe

Alfred Ainger · poetry

Episodes before thirty

Algernon Blackwood · biography

Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana'

Andrew Everett Durham · biography

R. C. Jebb · biography

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

Johan Huizinga · biography

Ernesto Garcia Cabral: A Mexican Cartoonist

G. R. G. Conway · biography

Escape from East Tennessee to the federal lines

Robert A. Ragan · biography

Escape from the Confederacy

Benjamin F. Hasson · biography

Thomas Carlyle · biography

Essay on the Character and Influence of Washington in the Revolution of the United States of America

François Guizot · biography

Ethan Allen, the Robin Hood of Vermont

Henry -1889 Hall · biography

Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1

Slason Thompson · poetry

Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2

Slason Thompson · biography

Eugenie, Empress of the French

Clara Tschudi · biography

Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase

William Maxwell Evarts · biography

Euripides and His Age

Gilbert Murray · play

Eventful Narratives

Robert Aveson · novel

Everlasting Pearl: One of China's Women

Anna Magdalena Johannsen · biography

Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh in 1843

Wilson McCandless · biography