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Author: Charles Morris Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528544368 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 606
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Excerpt from The Handy Dictionary of Biography Dictionaries of biography, as a rule, are bulky volumes, which seek to be exhaustive and in so doing introduce hundreds of names which not one person in a thousand is likely to look for, and in many of these cases give little more information than the dates of birth and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Charles Morris Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528544368 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 606
Book Description
Excerpt from The Handy Dictionary of Biography Dictionaries of biography, as a rule, are bulky volumes, which seek to be exhaustive and in so doing introduce hundreds of names which not one person in a thousand is likely to look for, and in many of these cases give little more information than the dates of birth and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Charles Morris Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330260043 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 606
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Excerpt from The Handy Dictionary of Biography For the proper study of history, literature, or art, a biographical dictionary is scarcely less important than an English dictionary is for those who desire to become thoroughly acquainted with the English language. No doubt one may acquire a very considerable knowledge of English by listening to conversation and by reading; but if he has no other aids than these, there will often be an indistinctness and uncertainty in his knowledge of words which would be fatal to any claim he might wish to make to being - we do not say a thoroughly educated, but even a respectably educated, person. In like manner, though one might acquire, by reading, an extensive knowledge of history, literature, or art, yet questions or doubts will not unfrequently arise in the minds even of those who are generally well informed, as to the exact date of some important event or the correct spelling of a name, or, it may be, the particular line or field in which the person about whom information is sought has distinguished himself. It then becomes eminently desirable, if not absolutely necessary, to have at hand some convenient resource by which all doubt or difficulty may be at once removed. The aim of the present work has been to furnish in a comparatively brief compass and at a moderate price, a book of biographical reference sufficiently full for all ordinary occasions. Particular attention has been given to the notices of those persons who have quite recently risen to distinction, both because the generality of readers naturally take a deeper interest in such characters, and because it is precisely this class of persons about whom it is especially difficult to obtain the information which one requires. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Jennifer R. March Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141020776 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 414
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The figures and events of classical myths underpin our culture and the constellations named after them fill the night sky. Whether it�s the raging Minotaur trapped in the Cretan labyrinth or the twelve labours of Hercules, Aphrodite�s birth from the waves or Zeus visiting Danae as a shower of gold, the mythology of Greece and Rome is full of unforgettable stories. All the stories of the Greek tragedies � Oedipus, Medea, Antigone � are there; all the events of the Trojan wars and of Odysseus and Aeneas� epic journeys; the founding of Athens and of Rome� These are the strangest tales of love, war, betrayal and heroism ever told and, while brilliantly retelling them, this book shows how they echo through the works of much later writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Camus and Ted Hughes. Full of attractive illustrations and laid out in eighteen clear chapters (the titles include �Dangerous Women� and �Heroes�), Dr Jennifer March has written a fascinating guide to the myths of classical civilization that is as readable as a novel.
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