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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Diary, Letters, Reminiscences and Biography (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: “DEAR BROTHER MISHA, I got your letter when I was fearfully bored...

Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which combines comedy and tragedy. The play was certainly produced as early as 1611 and was first published in 1623. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The...

The Most-Advanced Edgar Allan Poe Biography Available. This book is your ultimate resource for Edgar Allan Poe. Here you will find the most up-to-date 138 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know...

Bresciani, Umberto, Wang Yangming – An Essential Biography, Passerino Editore, 2016. This is a biography – the first in Western languages - of an extraordinary man, who has fascinated countless people in the last five centuries. Wang Yangming was a philosopher, a military and political leader,...

Among the important stories that need to be told about noteworthy Canadians, Lincoln Alexander's sits at the top of the list. Born in Toronto in 1922, the son of a maid and a railway porter, Alexander embarked on an exemplary life path that has involved military service for his country, a successful...

The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon grew up in the shadow of an older brother and thrived on struggle and opposition. Through high school and college, in the Navy and in politics, Nixon was constantly leading crusades and fighting off “enemies,” either real and imagined. He possessed the...

An inspiring story of faith and family across two continents Like millions of other Italians in the early twentieth century, Justin Catanoso's grandfather immigrated to America to escape poverty and hardship. Nearly a hundred years later, Justin, born and raised in New Jersey, knows little...

Lee Edwards has been an active player in the modern conservative movement longer than anyone else. As the Daily Caller noted in a recent profile, Edwards “has lived conservative history like none other.” And he brings that history to life in Just Right.   This memoir is full of colorful stories...

Shmuel Katz’s detailed and comprehensive biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940) is an unabashedly partisan defense of one of the most complex Zionists of the early 20th century. Jabotinsky was a Russian poet, playwright, journalist, and novelist as well as the founder of Revisionist Zionism...

2017 Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award 2017 Finalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book Award 2017 Finalist - Evans Biography and Handcart Award Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration...

A biography of Narendra Modi that aims to give a fair picture of the man and his politics Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is one of India's most powerful, popular and controversial leaders. With the general elections due in May 2014, Mr Modi's campaign rallies have drawn unprecedented...

Stephen Hawking, the next Einstein of the 21st century. He explores the mysteries of the universe with the help of modern physics and technology. The concepts of black holes, gravitational waves, baby universes, the big bang, time wraps, time travel, imaginary time, string theory, theory of everything,...

With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002) This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis on his enormous scientific contributions,...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars. Tracing Gates's life from his West Virginia birth, the book follows him through his undergraduate education at Yale and then to Cambridge, where he became the first...