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Max Brod
Max Brod , 1884-1968, Israeli writer and composer, b. Prague. Brod is best known for his historical novels, written in German, notably The Redemption of Tycho Brahe (1916, tr. 1928) and Reubeni, Prince of the Jews (1925, tr. 1928). A lifelong friend of Franz Kafka, he wrote an excellent... Read more |
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Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb 1775-1834, English essayist, b. London. He went to school at Christ's Hospital, where his lifelong friendship with Coleridge began. Lamb was a clerk at the India House from 1792 to 1825. In 1796 his sister Mary Ann Lamb (1764-1847) in a fit of temporary insanity attacked and wounded... Read more |
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Max Black
Max Black 1909-88, American analytical philosopher, b. Baku, Russia (now Baky, Azerbaijan), grad. Cambridge, Ph.D. Univ. of London, 1939. He taught at the Univ. of Ill. (1940-46) before going to Cornell Univ. (1946). Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, he wrote A Companion to Wittgenstein's... Read more |
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William Styron
William Styron 1925-2006, American novelist, b. Newport News, Va., grad. Duke, 1947. His fiction is often powerful, deeply felt, poetic, and elegiac. He became well known for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967; Pulitzer Prize), a fictional recreation of the 1831 slave rebellion in... Read more |
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Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Max Beerbohm , 1872-1956, English essayist, caricaturist, and parodist. He contributed to the famous Yellow Book while still an undergraduate at Oxford. In 1898 he succeeded G. B. Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review. A charming, witty, and elegant man often called "the... Read more |
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Howard Fast
Howard Fast 1914-2003, American author, b. New York City. A prolific writer, he is best known for historical novels that mainly concern rebellion against various forms of tyranny. They include Citizen Tom Payne (1943), Freedom Road (1944), My Glorious Brothers (1948), Spartacus (1951), and ... Read more |
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Max Scheler
Max Scheler , 1874-1928, German philosopher. He taught at the universities of Jena (1901-7) and Munich (1907-10), where he was influenced by Franz Brentano and the followers of Edmund Husserl . From 1910 he concentrated on writing, but he returned to university teaching at Cologne and Frankfurt... Read more |
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Federalist Papers
FEDERALIST PAPERS A collection of eighty-five essays by alexander hamilton (1755–1804), james madison (1751 Read more |
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