Model Number: BBR0679641947DLDA
Author: ST. AUGUSTINE
'The reader who has never met Augustine before ought to go first of all to the Confessions,' reflected the Trappist monk and scholar Thomas Merton. 'Augustine lived the theology that he wrote. . . . He experienced the reality of Christ living in his own soul.' Saint Augustine, the celebrated theologian ...more »
Model Number: BBALQYHSXXKATODLDA
Author: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
Letters of a Woman Homesteader presents an outstanding first-person account of life on the American frontier. Elinore Pruitt Stewart took up homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming, in 1909, to prove that a woman could ranch. Her captivating letters reveal the isolation, the beauty, and the joy of working ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_8825DLDA
Author: Christ, Lena
Die frühe Autobiografie einer Frau, die Ende des 19. Jahrhundert als Kind vom Dorf nach München geriet und auch dort ihr Glück nicht fand. In der Sozialgeschichte der Literatur steht das Werk von Lena Christ exemplarisch für den Kunstrang, den eine 'Literatur von unten' erreichen kann . (Werner Schmitz ...more »
Model Number: BBR0375504680DLDA
Author: VENTURA, JESSE
When he left the navy SEALs to become a pro wrestler, the fans knew him as Jesse, the Body. When he hosted his hard-hitting KFAN radio talk show, he became Jesse, the Mouth. And now that this body-slamming, straight-talking, charismatic hero is masterminding Minnesota's gubernatorial decisions, you'd ...more »
Product Info Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady's Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe ... more »
Model Number: BBAL1554458390DLDA
Author: Baillet, Adrien
La vie est un present de la nature assez considerable pour ne pas negliger de sçavoir à qui l'on en est redevable : et j'ay lieu d'esperer que ceux à qui celle de M Descartes ne sera point entierement indifferente, me sçauront gré de leur avoir fait connoître les personnes dont la providence a voulu ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412100992DLDA
Author: Darwin, Charles
In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author. Thus it comes about that the chief part ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412109469DLDA
Author: Hugo, Victor
This volume of memoirs has a double character - historical and intimate. The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, VICTOR HUGO. As we follow the events set forth we get the impression they made upon the mind of the extraordinary man who recounts them; and of all the personages ...more »
Model Number: BBALHWXVMIRIAGDLDA
Author: Rose, John Holland
In his temperament as in the circumstances of his time the young Buonaparte was destined for an extraordinary career. Into a tottering civilization he burst with all the masterful force of an Alaric. But he was an Alaric of the south, uniting the untamed strength of his island kindred with the mental ...more »
Model Number: BBR0679641068DLDA
Author: ADAMS, HENRY
'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams,' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors--great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams--Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and ...more »
