Books: What to Know

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

John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3

Oliver Wendell Holmes · biography

John Dover Wilson · biography

John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes

John Masefield · play

James Bradley Thayer · biography

John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court

Edward Samuel Corwin · biography

John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub

R. E. Cholmeley · biography

John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1847-1900), a Memoir

David Oswald Sir Hunter Blair · biography

John Pettie, R.A., H.R.S.A.

Martin Hardie · biography

John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal Reminiscences

John Porter Fort · biography

John Quincy Adams

John T. Jr. Morse · biography

John Redmond's Last Years

Stephen Lucius Gwynn · biography

John Sobieski: Lothian prize essay for 1881

Edward H. R. Tatham · biography

John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works

H. R. Fox Bourne · biography

John the Baptist

F. B. Meyer · biography

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1

Samuel Johnson · biography

Joseph Bonaparte

John S. C. Abbott · biography

Hugh Walpole · biography

Joseph Haydn: Servant and Master

Herbert F. Peyser · biography

Joseph K. F. Mansfield, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army

John Mead Gould · biography

Joseph Priestley

T. E. Thorpe · biography

Joseph Rogers, M.D.: Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer

Joseph Rogers · biography

Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher: A Discourse

B. H. Roberts · biography

John S. C. Abbott · biography

Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir

Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler · biography

Norman Bentwich · biography

Journal 01, 1837-1846

Henry David Thoreau · biography

Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851

Henry David Thoreau · biography

Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.

Philip Vickers Fithian · biography

Journal of a Cavalry Officer; Including the Memorable Sikh Campaign of 1845-1846

W. W. W. Humbley · biography

Journal of a Residence at Bagdad

Anthony Norris Groves · biography

Journal of a Residence in America

Fanny Kemble · biography

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839

Fanny Kemble · biography

Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806-1815

Journal of a Tour in the Years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst Accompanying the Late Sir Humphry Davy

J. J. Tobin · biography

Journal of a trip to California

Charles W. Smith · biography

Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51

E. S. Ingalls · biography

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil

Maria Lady Callcott · biography

Journal of a West India Proprietor

M. G. Lewis · biography

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

Lucinda Lee Orr · biography

Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812

James active 1812 Reynolds · biography

Journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius, a Revolutionary Surgeon

Elias Cornelius · biography

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 06, No. 4, December 1914

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 09, No. 1, March 1917

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 09, No. 3, September 1917

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 1919

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919

Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman written during his expedition to the Kittar Mountains, between Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea, 1891

Herbert Edward Pretyman · biography