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

Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 114, January 3, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 115, January 10, 1852

George Bell · reference

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 118, January 31, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 119, February 7, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 121, February 21, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 125, March 20, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 127, April 3, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 128, April 10, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 133, May 15, 1852

George Bell · periodical

Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life

Arthur E. Knights · biography

Notes of a Gold Digger, and Gold Diggers' Guide

James Bonwick · biography

Notes of a Private

John Milton Hubbard · biography

Notes of a Son and Brother

Henry James · biography

Notes of a staff officer of our First New Jersey Brigade on the Seven Day's Battle on the peninsula in 1862

E. Burd Grubb · biography

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume I.

John McLean · biography

Notes of an Itinerant Policeman

Josiah Flynt · biography

Notes of hospital life from November, 1861, to August, 1863

Alonzo Potter · biography

Nothing of Importance

Bernard Adams · biography

Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius

Sister O.S.B. Mary Agnes · biography

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

S. Emma E. Edmonds · biography

Nuts for Future Historians to Crack

Horace Wemyss Smith · biography

Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap

Follett L. Greeno · biography

Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons—1861 to 1865

Henry Harrison Eby · biography

Observations of an Orderly

Ward Muir · biography

Occultists & mystics of all ages

Ralph Shirley · biography

Of Six Mediæval Women; To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens

Alice Kemp-Welch · biography

Of the Capture of Ticonderoga: His Captivity and Treatment by the British

Ethan Allen · biography

Old Coaching Days

Moses James Nobbs · biography

Thomas Hodson · biography

Old Days at Beverly Farms

Mary Larcom Dow · biography

Old Familiar Faces

Theodore Watts-Dunton · biography

Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere

John Willis Clark · biography

Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on

Walter Hawkins · biography

Old Love Stories Retold

Richard Le Gallienne · collection

Old Melbourne Memories

Rolf Boldrewood · biography

Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times

Frederick Edward Maning · biography

Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War

N. B. De Saussure · biography

Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

John Greenleaf Whittier · biography

Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories

Caroline E. Merrick · biography

The story in one page

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi

The river is a highway of soot, soundings, and razor fights in the engine room.

George Byron Merrick · biography

Ole Bull: A Memoir

Sara Chapman Thorp Bull · biography

Oliver Cromwell

Samuel Rawson Gardiner · biography

Oliver Cromwell

Theodore Roosevelt · biography

Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England

C. H. Firth · biography

Oliver Goldsmith

E. S. Lang -1916 Buckland · biography