Author: John Canning
Editor(s): John Canning
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 768
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
Here in one handy volume are a hundred of the greatest lives of all time. Immensely more informative than entries in a biographical dictionary, a mere fraction of the bulk and cost of the equivalent number of book-length biographies-even if they were all available-100 Great Lives is a work of exceptionally wide appeal.
To the general reader it brings many hours of the finest entertainment reading has to offer-the story of people. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and here is truth which has, in one way or another, affected the lives of us all.
To the student it is an invaluable saver of time. To the writer, speaker, and all who need detailed knowledge of the figures of history, it is no mean work of reference. The selection has been made to give a wide coverage of the age and arenas of human endeavour.
Scientists and inventors form Archimedes to Orville Wright; ethical leaders from Buddha and Confucius to Marx and Gandhi; writers from Herodotus to Tagore; explorers from Marco Polo to Robert Falcon Scott; soldiers and statesmen from Alexander the Great to Sir Winston Churchill will sufficiently indicate the plan and scope of the book, not to mention the artists, musicians and great women who claim their rightful place.
Fast-moving but sensitive, packed with facts without sacrifice of able comment, each Life presents a rounded view of its subject.
This new edition of this well-established and ever-popular book has been extensively revised and up-dated.
100 Great Lives comes as a proven contribution to the literature of people, and a never-failing source of good reading and informed writing.
Contents
Scientists and Inventors
Writers and Poets
Leaders and Reformers
Artists and Musicians
Great Women
Discoverers and Explorers
Soldiers and Statesmen
Index