There are people in this world who have shaped the very foundations for which we live today; read about them in this epic anthology of biographies.
The following works are included in the collection:
Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood
Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown
Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse, Jr.
Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward
Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley Byne
Emily Brontë by A. Mary F. Robinson
Frederick Douglass by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer
Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke
H. G. Wells by J. D. Beresford
Hawthorne by Henry James
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur-Leigh
John Quincy Adams by John. T. Morse
Julius Caesar by C. Suetonious Tranquillus
Life of Charles Dickens by Frank Marzials
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
St. Francis of Assisi by Paul Sabatier
A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee
Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
The Princess Pocahontas by Virginia Watson
Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer
Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer
Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin