25 People You Should Know

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