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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

Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics

Allen Johnson · biography

Stephen Arnold Douglas

William Garrott Brown · biography

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 05, May 22, 1858

Stephen H. Branch · biography

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 06, May 29, 1858

Stephen H. Branch · biography

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 10, June 26, 1858

Stephen H. Branch · biography

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 11, July 3, 1858

Stephen H. Branch · poetry

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 17, August 14, 1858

Stephen H. Branch · biography

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 23, September 25, 1858

Stephen H. Branch · biography

H. D. Traill · novel

Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler: His Life and Work

Gross Alexander · biography

Stevenson at Manasquan

Charlotte Eaton · biography

Stevenson's Perfect Virtues, as Exemplified by Leigh Hunt

Luther Albertus Brewer · biography

Stevenson's shrine

Laura Stubbs · biography

John Muir · biography

Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An Autobiography

Thomas active Faughnan · biography

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

G. F. R. Henderson · biography

Stories about General Warren, in relation to the fifth of March massacre, and the battle of Bunker Hill

Rebecca Warren Brown · biography

Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt · biography

Stories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and Reformers

Asa Don Dickinson · biography

Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists

Asa Don Dickinson · biography

Stories of Authors, British and American

Edwin Watts Chubb · biography

Stories of Great Inventors

Hattie E. Macomber · biography

Stories of Great Men

Faye Huntington · biography

Stories of Great Musicians

Kathrine Lois Scobey · biography

Stories of grit

Archer Wallace · biography

Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers

Russell Doubleday · biography

Stories of Later American History

Wilbur F. Gordy · biography

Story of the Life of St. Paul, the Apostle

Mary active Seymour · biography

Story-Lives of Great Musicians

Francis Jameson Rowbotham · biography

Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum · biography

Studies in Contemporary Biography

James Bryce Viscount Bryce · biography

Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

William Dean Howells · biography

Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia

William John Wills · biography

Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe · biography

Albert Payson Terhune · biography

The story in one page

Susan B. Anthony

A Quaker reformer challenges the American mill, the abolitionist movement, and the Constitution to secure the vote for women.

Alma Lutz · biography

Leslie Stephen · biography

John Algernon Owens · biography

George William Erskine Russell · biography

Synge and the Ireland of His Time

W. B. Yeats · play

T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him

T. De Witt Talmage · biography

Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult

Mark E. Laxer · biography

Tales from a Dugout

Arthur Guy Empey · collection

Talks with Tolstoi

Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer · biography

Talleyrand: A Biographical Study

Joseph McCabe · biography

Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People

Ethel T. Raymond · biography

Ten American Girls from History

Kate Dickinson Sweetser · biography