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There is a need for accessible short biographies of key people for younger listeners. Following the success of Famous Paople I, Nicolas Soames presents another varied group of men and women who have changed the course of history.
This is the second volume of popular histories of famous people: Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, George Washington, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and Mahatma
...The United States themselves are, essentially, the greatest poem, said Walt Whitman. Here are the much-loved examples of the free spirit of America in all its glory.
100 poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.
Music: American music including Virgil Thompson and Aaron Copland
Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce – why is that window boarded up? – and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans. Read with sensitivity
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