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Francisco Jiménez
Francisco Jiménez (born 1943)

philologist, professor

  • Columbia University

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Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
The circuit
La maríposa
Breaking through
Reaching out
La mariposa
Taking hold
Mosaico de la vida
Más allá de mí
Reaching out
The Identification and analysis of Chicano literature
The circuit
The Episodios nacionales of Victoriano Salado Alvarez
Poverty and social justice
Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

orator, essayist, political activist, trade unionist, peace activist, suffragette, linguist, autobiographer

  • Radcliffe College, Harvard University

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The story of my life
The Story of My Life
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
We the Resistance
Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
The World I Live in
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Copper Level
My Religion
Light in my darkness
The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics)
The Story of My Life (Enriched Classics)
Rezeption des Völkerrechts
Teacher
The faith of Helen Keller
To Love This Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
My Key of Life: Optimism
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
Midstream
Let us have faith
The story of my life, by Helen Keller
The open door
Midstream: my later life
The Story of My Life (Illustrated Classics Collection 2)
The world I live in and Optimism
To love this life
Midstream
The Story of My Life
Optimism
My religion
The Story of My Life
The Story Of My Life And Optimism
The Story of my Life (100th Anniversary Edition)
Helen Keller's Journal
Story of My Life
Friendly Settlements Before the European Court of Human Rights
The Story of My Life
The world I live in
Teacher
The Door Opens and Our Mark Twain
The World I Live In
The story of my life
The Story of My Life (With Her Letters)
Teacher
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Taking international law seriously
Out of the dark
An Alabama Christmas
Optimism
The story of my life
The story of my life. With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementrary account of her education. Including passages from the Reports and Letters of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan
The Story of My Life
To Love This Life, Quotations by Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Helen Keller's journal
How I would help the world
Out of the dark
The Song Of The Stone Wall
Peace at eventide
Story of My Life (Dover Large Print Classics)
The story of my life
My religion
My key of life (optimism)
Story of My Life/C-21/Pocket Classics
Story of My Life
The Story of My Life (Watermill Classic)
Sourde, muette, aveugle
Die Flucht
Seek Happiness
Historia de Mi Vida - Ciega - Sorda - Muda
Out of the dark
The chant of the stone wall
Story of My Life (Now Age Illus Ser 2)
The song of the stone wall
Optimism
Wei da de san da nv xing zi zhuan =
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Helen Keller, her Socialist years
The world I live in, Optimism and other essays
The world I live in
El mundo donde vivo
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
Helen Keller's journal, 1936-1937
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 1
Wo de sheng huo
Ḳorot hayai
המורה אן סוליבן מייסי
Chun feng hua yu - Sha Li Wen lao shi de gu shi
The story of my life =
Our duties to the blind
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
The story of my life
The Spirit of Easter
Wo di sheng he
We bereaved
Three days to see
The story of my life
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
My religion
Helen Keller in Scotland
My religion
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 4
Midstream
Messages to veterans blinded in World War II
My religion
The chant of the stone wall
Iz zhizni sli͡epoĭ i glukhoni͡emoĭ
Byline of hope
The world I live in and Optimism
Being some timely extracts from the reviews of "My religion" by Helen Keller
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan
The modern woman
Wie ich Sozialistin wurde
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
The story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Wo de xin yang
Helen Keller papers
The world I live in
Our duties to the blind
The miracle of life
The world I live in
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 3
The story of my life
The New York that Helen Keller "sees."
Optimism
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 2
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980)

biographer, poet, teacher, memoirist, linguist, lecturer

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Vtorai︠a︡ kniga
Mozart & Salieri
Poems
Hope Against Hope
Ob Akhmatovoĭ
[Kniga tretʹi͡a︡
Vtoraya kniga
Chapter 42
Mozart and Salieri
Mozart and Salieri
Hope abandoned
Moe zaveshchanie i drugie ėsse
Tretʹi︠a︡ kniga
Dushi vysokai︠a︡ svoboda
Vtorai Ła kniga
Nadejda Mandelshtam. Tretya kniga
Contre tout espoir
Moĭ muzh - Osip Mandelʹshtam
"Posmotrim, kto kogo pereupri︠a︡mit ..."
Chapter 42 and The goldfinch and other poems
Correspondance avec Alexandre Soljenitsyne et Nadejda Mandelstam
Agate Nesaule
Agate Nesaule (1938-2022)

philologist

  • Indiana University Bloomington

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Woman in Amber
In love with Jerzy Kosinksi
Sieviete dzintarā
Lost Midsummers
In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
Owen Morgan Edwards
Owen Morgan Edwards (1858-1920)

historian, politician, linguist

  • Welsh Presbyterian Theological College, Aberystwyth University

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Tro yn Llydaw
O. M. Edwards
Llyfr Del
Hwiangerddi
Syr Owen M. Edwards
Tro yn yr Eidal
Cartrefi Cymru
O'r Bala i Geneva
Llynnoedd llonydd
A short history of Wales
Er mwyn Iesu
Tro i'r de
Yn y wlad
Hanes Cymru
Er mwyn Cymru
Llyfr Owen (llyfr o straeon)
Yn y wlad ac ysgrifau eraill
Clych atgof
Tro trwy'r Gogledd.Tro i'r De
Clych atgof ac ysgrifau eraill
Cartrefi Cymru ac ysgrifau eraill
Wales
Yn y wlad ac ysgrrifau eraill
Clych adgof
Llyfrau ystraeon hanes
Ystraeon o hanes Cymru
Homes of Wales
Teithio'r Cyfandir
Tro trwy'r gogledd
Jørn Lund
Jørn Lund (born 1946)

linguist, professor, editor

  • Bagsværd Kostskole og Gymnasium

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Karl Friedrich Bahrdt
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741-1792)

linguist, theologian

  • Leipzig University

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System der moralischen Religion zur endlichen Beruhigung für Zweifler und Denker..
Geschichte seines Lebens, seiner Meinungen und Schicksale
Ueber Pressfreyheit und deren Gränzen
Glaubensbekenntnisz, veranlaszt durch ein Kaiserl. Reichshofrathsconclusum
Mit dem Herrn [von] Zimmermann, Ritter des St.Wladimir-Ordens von der dritten Klasse, königlichem Leibarzt und Hofrath in Hannover, der Academien der Wissenschaften in Petersburg und Berlin, der Gesellschaft der Aerzte in Paris, London, Edinburgh und Copenhagen, und der Societät der Wissenschaften in Göttingen Mitgliede deutsch gesprochen
The edict of religion, a comedy
Kirchen- und Ketzer-Almanach aufs Jahr 1781
Glaubensbekenntnisz, veranlaszt durch ein Kaiserl. Reichshofrathsconclusum
Geschichte seines Lebens, seiner Meinungen und Schicksale
Des Herrn D. Bahrdts Glaubens-Bekänntniss
Apparatvs criticvs ad formandvm interpretem Veteris Testamenti congestvs a d. Carolo Friederico Bahrdt..
Leben und Thaten des weiland hochwürdigen Pastor Rindvigius
Dr. Carl Friedrich Bahrdts Geschichte seines Lebens, seiner Meinungen und Schicksale
Kirchen und Ketzer Almanach
Apparatus criticus ad formandum interpretem Veteris Testamenti congestus a D. Carolo Friederico Bahrdt ...
Eden, das ist, Betrachtungen über das Paradies
Briefe über die Bibel im Volkston
Sonnenklare Unzertrennlichkeit der Religion und der Moral
Philanthropinischer Erziehungsplan, oder, Vollständige Nachricht von dem ersten wirklichen Philanthropin zu Marschlins
Kirchen- und Ketzer-Almanach aufs Jahr 1781
Systema theologiae Lutheranae orthodoxum
HANDBUCH DER MORAL FÜR DEN BÜRGERSTAND
Leben und Thaten des weiland hochwürdigen Pastor Rindvigius
Abdurrahman Sharafkandi
Abdurrahman Sharafkandi (1920-1991)

poet, translator, journalist, linguist, lexicographer

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