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Abraham Lincoln - Volume I
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Originally published in 1893, the New York times found it to be "for its scope, admirable. It will even stand up and appear respectable in the most distinguished company of Lincoln biographies that might be assembled." The author is "a sane biographer, who brings to the task of writing about Lincoln a mind that aspires to see clear and think straight, instead of one held slavishly subject to a heart's desire to make Lincoln out a hero without fault or blemish."The Atlantic Monthly noted that Morse had "attempted a bit of scientific painting and not a portraiture to the life.
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John T. Morse |
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Abraham Lincoln - Volume II
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Volume II - Abraham Lincoln Biography by John T. Morse.
Originally published in 1893, the New York times found it to be "for its
scope, admirable. It will even stand up and appear respectable in the most distinguished company of Lincoln biographies that might be
assembled.
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John T. Morse |
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Nelson Mandela Biography
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Nelson Mandela has been hailed as “the greatest and most courageous leader of our generation1”. In a life of personal sacrifice, he dedicated himself to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, an era which came to end with the country’s first multi-racial elections on 27 April 1994.
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Uninformed |
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Charles Darwin
Biography
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In this little volume I have endeavoured to present the life and work of Charles Darwin viewed as a moment in a great
revolution, in due relation both to those who went before and to those who come after
him. Recognising, as has been well said, that the wave makes the
crest, not the crest the wave, I have tried to let my hero fall naturally into his proper place in a vast onward movement of the human
intellect, of which he was himself at once a splendid product and a moving cause of the first
importance.
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Grant Allen |
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Chopin: The Man and His Music
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Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano". Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. His mother was Polish and his father was a French immigrant to Poland. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his musical education there.
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James Huneker |
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Dante: His Times and His Work
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Dante was born in Florence, Italy. The exact date of Dante's birth is not known, although it is generally believed to be around 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in La Divina Commedia, "the Inferno" (Halfway through the journey we are living, implying that Dante was around 35 years old, as the average lifespan according to the Bible (Psalms 89:10, Vulgate) is 70 years; and as the imaginary travel took place in 1300, Dante must have been born around 1265).
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James Huneker |
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Free PDF - 412 KB |
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Edison, His Life and Inventions
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An insistently expressed desire on the part of the public for a definitive biography of Edison was the reason for the following pages. The present authors deem themselves happy in the confidence reposed in them, and in the constant assistance they have enjoyed from Mr. Edison while preparing these pages, a great many of which are altogether his own. This co-operation in no sense relieves the authors of responsibility as to any of the views or statements of their own that the book contains.
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Dyer and Martin |
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Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent classical music figures of the Western world. This German musical genius created numerous works that are firmly entrenched in the repertoire. Except for a weakness in composing vocal and operatic music (to which he himself admitted, notwithstanding a few vocal works like the opera "Fidelio" and the song "Adelaide,"), Beethoven had complete mastery of the artform. He left his stamp in 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, numerous string quartets and dozens of other key works.
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Ludwig van Beethoven |
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George Washington
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The twenty-second day of February is a national holiday in America because, as everybody knows, it is the anniversary of George Washington's birthday. All loyal Americans love and honor him, the greatest man in the history of the Republic. He was born in 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, where the Potomac River flowed past his father's farm. The farm-house, called "Wakefield," was burned, but the United States Government built a monument to mark the place where it stood.
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Calista McCabe Courtenay |
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H. G. Wells
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Mr Wells' experiments with the relatively improbable have become increasingly involved with the social problem, and it would be possible to trace the growth of his opinions from this evidence alone, even if we had not the valuable commentary afforded by his novels and his essays in sociology. But his interest in the present and future welfare of man would not in the first place have prompted him to the writing of romance (unless it had been cast in the severely allegorical form of The Pilgrim's Progress), and if we are to account for that ebullition, we shall be driven--like Darwin with his confounding peacock--to take refuge in some theory of exuberance. The later works have been so defensive and, in one sense, didactic that one is apt to forget that many of the earlier books, and all the short stories, must have originated in the effervescence of creative imagination.
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J. D. Beresford |
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Free PDF - 316 KB |
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