Author: Wilkie CollinsPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427060673
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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Author: Otto JahnThe Gallery of Portraits (Vol. 1-7)
Author: Arthur Thomas MalkinPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs is a seven volumes edition which contains biographies of eminent men in literature, arts and history. Table of Contents: Volume 1: Dante Sir H. Davy Kosciusko Flaxman Copernicus Milton Jas. Watt Turenne Hon. R. Boyle Sir I. Newton Michael Angelo Moliere C. J. Fox Bossuet Lorenzo de Medici Geo. Buchanan Fénélon Sir C. Wren Corneille Halley Sully N. Poussin Harvey Sir J. Banks Volume 2: Lord Somers Smeaton Buffon Sir Thomas More La Place Handel Pascal Erasmus Titian Luther Rodney Lagrange Voltaire Rubens Richelieu Wollaston Boccaccio Claude Nelson Cuvier Ray Cook Turgot Peter the Great Volume 3: Erskine Dollond John Hunter Petrarch Burke Henry IV. Bentley Kepler Hale Franklin Schwartz Barrow D'Alembert Hogarth Galileo Rembrandt Dryden La Perouse Cranmer Tasso Ben Jonson Canova Chaucer Sobieski Volume 4: Daguesseau Cromwell Lionardo da Vinci Vauban William III. Goethe Correggio Napoleon Linnæus Priestley Ariosto Marlborough De l'Epée Colbert Washington Murillo Cervantes Frederic II. Delambre Drake Charles V. Des Cartes Spenser Grotius Volume 5: Taylor Lavoisier Sydenham Clarendon Reynolds Swift Locke Selden Paré Blake L'Hôpital Mrs. Siddons Herschel Romilly Shakspeare Euler Sir W. Jones Rousseau Harrison Montaigne Pope Bolivar Arkwright Cowper Volume 6: Raleigh Jenner Maskelyne Hobbes Raphael John Knox Adam Smith Calvin Lord Mansfield Bradley Melancthon William Pitt Wesley Dr. Cartwright Porson Wiclif Cortez Leibnitz Ximenes Addison Bramante Madame de Stael Palladio Queen Elizabeth Volume 7: Gustavus Adolphus Marc Antonio Raimondi Coke Gibbon Scaliger Penn De Thou Chatham Mozart Loyola Brindley Schiller Bentham Catherine II. Defoe Hume De Witt Hampden Dr. Johnson Jefferson Wilberforce Dr. Black Bacon Sir Walter Scott
My Struggle for Peace, Volume 1 (1953–1954)
Author: Moshe SharettPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253037387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The first volume of the former Israeli prime minister’s journals from the nation’s early years. My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country’s fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett’s candid comments on Israel’s first-generation leaders and world statesmen of the day, the diary also tells the dramatic human story of a political career cut short—the removal of an unusually sensitive, dedicated, and talented public servant. My Struggle for Peace is, above all, an intimate record of the decline of Sharett’s moderate approach and the rise of more “activist-militant” trends in Israeli society, culminating in the Suez/Sinai war of 1956. The diary challenges the popular narrative that Israel’s confrontation with its neighbors was unavoidable by offering daily evidence of Sharett’s statesmanship, moderation, diplomacy, and concern for Israel’s place in international affairs. This is the first volume in the 3-volume English abridgement of Sharett’s Yoman Ishi [Personal diary] (Ma’ariv, 1978) maintains the integrity, flavor, and impact of the 8-volume Hebrew original and includes additional documentary material that was not accessible at the time. The volumes are also available to purchase as a set or individually. “The editors . . . vastly improved on the Hebrew version by adding Sharett’s speeches, reports, cabinet minutes, and other sources to the text’. . . . These additions makes this work so important and welcome by all who aspire to understand the foreign and defense policies of Israel in its first decade.” —Israel Studies Review
The Novels of Nora Roberts, Volume 1
Author: Nora RobertsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101562005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2557
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a collection that includes five thrilling romantic suspense novels. HONEST ILLUSIONS The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy Nouvelle has inherited her father’s talents—and his penchant for jewel thievery. Into this colorful world comes Luke Callahan, an escape artist who captures her heart—and keeps secrets that could shatter all her illusions… PRIVATE SCANDALS Deanna Reynolds had it all planned: she’d start out in the newsroom of a small Chicago station, then move up to host her own talk show. The network’s sexiest journalist, Finn Riley, admires Deanna’s daring ambition. But soon they must unmask the hidden betrayals of Deanna’s fiercest rival by taking the biggest risk of all… HIDDEN RICHES When antiques dealer Dora Conroy purchases a few curiosities at an auction she unknowingly brings home a priceless cache that makes her the target of an international criminal. Entwined in a reckless chase, Dora turns to her new neighbor, Jed Skimmerhorn, an ex-cop whose desire for Dora puts him back in the line of fire… TRUE BETRAYALS Kelsey Byden is trying to sort out a lifetime of deception—and her feelings about the mother she once thought dead. As the two women rebuild their relationship, Kelsey finds herself swept into an unsettling new romance and must decide once and for all who she can trust, and who threatens to betray her… MONTANA SKY When Jack Mercy's three daughters gather to hear the reading of his will, they are shocked to learn that before any of them can inherit, they must live together on his ranch for one year. Now they face a challenge: put their bitterness aside and protect each other from danger—and unite against an enemy who threatens to destroy them all...
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 1: 1855-1894
Author: William F. HalloranPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783745037
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing "second self". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
Author: IBP, Inc.180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.1)
Author: Jules VernePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19145
Book Description
Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Call of the Wild Alice in Wonderland The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen
Author: Joseph Le Fanu