Van Loon's Lives
being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year
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Author
Publication
1943 - George G. Harrap, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
161,500 words, Guess
Page Count
646 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivevanloonslives0000hend
- OCLC Control Number8286646
- Open LibraryOL33040773M
Classifications
- DDC920
- LCCCT101 .V31
Description
At a series of mythical dinner parties, the reader meets many of the world's great men and women from the past, and learns the story of their lives, achievements, and personal philosophies. A mingling of history and biography with fantasy.
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