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Real Lives, Explained

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

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6,448 lives & letters

Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography.

Solomon Maimon · biography

Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709)

Nicholas Rowe · biography

Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart.

E. B. Brenton · biography

Some eminent Victorians: Personal recollections in the world of art and letters

J. Comyns Carr · biography

Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches

Millicent Garrett Dame Fawcett · biography

Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate

C. A. W. Monckton · biography

Some Famous Women

Louise Creighton · biography

Some forgotten Pennsylvania heroines

Henry W. Shoemaker · biography

The story in one page

Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ

Two thousand years of rabbis, scholars, and chess players who left the synagogue for the church despite social and spiritual costs.

Aaron Bernstein · religious

Some Noble Sisters

Edmund Lee · biography

Some of My War Stories

Allen Ripley Foote · biography

Some Old Time Beauties

Thomson Willing · biography

Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway

James Bayard Clark · biography

Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac

Hampton Sidney Thomas · biography

Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict

Samuel J. May · biography

Some Reminiscences

Joseph Conrad · biography

Some Reminiscences of old Victoria

Edgar Fawcett · biography

Something of Men I Have Known

Adlai E. Stevenson · biography

Søren Hjorth: Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle

Sigurd Smith · biography

South African Memories

Sarah Isabella Augusta Lady Wilson · biography

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

Ernest Henry Sir Shackleton · biography

Edward Dowden · biography

Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration

James Hooper · biography

Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War.

Alexis Soyer · biography

Speaking of the Turks

K. Ziya bey Mufti-zada · biography

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3

George Gilfillan · poetry

Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Abraham Lincoln · biography

Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States

Benjamin Harrison · biography

R. W. Church · poetry

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh

of Clairvaux Saint Bernard · biography

St. Domingo, its revolution and its hero, Toussaint Louverture.

Charles Wyllys Elliott · biography

St. Francis of Assisi

G. K. Chesterton · biography

St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music

E. G. P. Wyatt · biography

St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886

Mary Mapes Dodge · periodical

St. Nicholas, Vol. 13, No. 12, October 1886

Mary Mapes Dodge · periodical

St. Patrick, the Father of a Sacred Nation

James F. Loughlin · biography

St. Paul the Hero

Rufus M. Jones · biography

Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting

Clara Morris · play

Stammering, its cause and cure

Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue · biography

Stanley in Africa

James P. Boyd · biography

Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa

Joel Tyler Headley · biography

Stanley's Story; Or, Through the Wilds of Africa

A. G. Col. Feather · biography

Starr King in California

William Day Simonds · biography

Stars of the Opera

Mabel Wagnalls · collection

Statement on Bahá'u'lláh

Bahá'í International Community · biography

Station Amusements in New Zealand

Lady Barker · biography

Station Life in New Zealand

Lady Barker · biography

Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker

Charles R. Walker · biography