Frank Brady
Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
Aristotle Onassis was a born orator, and Jackie Kennedy would sit and listen to him spin off tales and stories-often racy-by the hour. A speaker of seven languages, he could keep a dinner party of some of the world's most sophisticated conversationalists spellbound. Even Jackie couldn't help but drop her reserve and laugh with him. America's First Lady simply never knew anyone quite as free or exotic as Aristotle Onassis, a paradoxical blend of raconteur...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
"Follows Boswell's life from 1769, the year of his marriage, until Boswell's death in 1795, the period of Boswell's triumphs as a writer. In the process the author recounts the comings and goings of the great and near-great artistic and political figures of London in the Age of Reason. Theorist Edmund Burke, painter Joshua Reynolds, politician William Pitt, actor David Garrick, and, of course, the incomparable Dr. Johnson all move in and out of Boswell's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Jones teaches English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy.
A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English language
Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith...
Author
Series
Tartan books ; 29
Language
English
Description
"Bobby Fischer has become in his short life one of the most electrifying, controversial, and well-known players of all time. Besides giving an account of his stormy career, this book presents, with diagrams, seventy-five of Fischer's most important games, ranging from tournament wins at the age of 12 to games with such chess titans as Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Tal, Smyslov, and Petrosian." --
