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Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz (1891-1980)

politician, autobiographer, submariner, military officer

  • Naval Academy at Mürwik

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Zehn Jahre und zwanzig Tage
Mein soldatisches Leben
Zehn Jahre und zwanzig Tage. Erinnerungen 1935-1945
Nemet︠s︡kie podbodnye lodki vo vtoroi miroboi boĭne
Memoirs
Zehn Jahre und zwanzig Tage
Deutsche Strategie zur See im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Memoirs
Mein wechselvolles Leben
Jean Anglade
Jean Anglade (1915-2017)

translator, high school teacher, biographer

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Confidences auvergnates
Aux sources de mes jours
Mes montagnes brûlées
Les Montgolfier
Pascal, l'insoumis
Des Chiens vivants
Les permissions de mai
La Maîtresse au piquet
Gens d'Auvergne
Les cousins Belloc
Suite auvergnate
Auvergne
Gens d'Auvergne / Suite auvergnate
Les puysatiers
Les ventres jaunes
Un souper de neige
Le pays oublié
Y a pas d'bon Dieu
Auvergne encore
Dans le secret des roseaux
Un lit d'aubépine
La vie quotidienne des immigrés en France de 1919 à nos jours
Le saintier
Mémoires d'Auvergne
Le Grillon vert
Auvergne vue du ciel (broch )
La bonne rosée
Une vie en rouge et bleu
La fille aux orages
Le péché d'écarlate
La bonne rosee
Le tilleul du soir
Un parrain de cendre
Le pape ami du diable et autres histoires mystérieuses
Better a living dog
Le Tilleur du soir
Un souper de neige
Les convoitś, roman
Qui t'a fait prince?
L' immeuble Taub
Le fils de Tibério Pulci
La vie quotidienne dans le Massif Central au XIXe siècle
Le semeur d'alphabets
Les bons dieux
Histoire de l'Auvergne
La Noël aux prunes
Fables omnibus
Le voleur de coloquintes
Les singes de l'Europe
Un temps pour lancer des pierres
La bête et le bon Dieu
Un front de marbre
L' Auvergne que j'aime ..
Cours de composition française
Herve Bazin
Avec flûte obligée
Les convoités
Les mains au dos
La foi et la montagne
Le sculpteur de nuages
La Point de suspension
Les grandes heures de l'Auvergne
L' Auvergne et le Massif Central d'hier et de demain
Le point de suspension
Le dernier de la paroisse
La garance
Hervé Bazin
L' Auvergne en Europe =
Le jardin de mercure
Jean Anglade raconte ...
Le chien du Seigneur
Le permissions de mai
Le tour du doigt
Une Pomme oubliée
La vie quotidienne contemporaine en Italie
Les mauvais pauvres
Dans le secret des roseaux
Grands mystiques
La maîtresse au piquet
Avec le temps--
Le roi de Fougères
Les doigts bleus de la pluie
La Soupe a la fourchette
Un parrain de cendre
La combinazione
Les doigts bleus de la pluie
Le choix d'Auguste
Les ventres jaunes
Hervé Bazin
Le roi des fougères
Le saintier
Un coeur étranger
Un cœur étranger
Une étrange entreprise
Le voleur de coloquintes
Le grand dérangement
Los males pobres
Une pomme oubliée
L'écureuil des vignes
Des chiens vivants
Los males pobres
Le tilleul du soir
Dymphna Cusack
Dymphna Cusack (1902-1981)

playwright, biographer

  • University of Sydney

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A window in the dark
Southern Steel
A bough in hell
Morning Sacrifice
Come in spinner
Holidays among the Russians
Heatwave in Berlin
Yarn spinners
Chinese women speak
Illyria reborn
Black lightning
Say no to death
Come in Spinner
Red sky at morning
Illyria reborn
The sun is not enough
The sun in my hands
The half-burnt tree
The New Constitutional & Administrative Law
Picnic races
The sun in exile
Morning sacrifice
Four Winds and a family
The golden girls
Chinese Women Speak (Century Travellers) (Traveller's)
Three Australian three-act plays
Ilyria reborn
Ivar Lo-Johansson
Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990)

journalist, poet, autobiographer

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Asfalt
Proletärförfattaren
Socialisten
Pubertet
Skriva för livet
Tröskeln
Soldaten
Författaren
Frihet
Gårdfarihandlaren
Stockholmaren
Breaking free
Bodies of Love
Only a mother =
Furstarna
Analfabeten
Statarskolan i litteraturen
Lastbara berättelser
Att skriva en roman
Dagar och dagsverken
Troskeln
Under de gröna ekarna i Sörmland
Stridsskrifter
Dagbok från 20-talet
Blå jungfrun
Gaardfarihandlaren
Passionsnoveller
Passioner i urval
Statarna
Karriäristerna
Martyrerna
Noveller
Statarnoveller
Vagabondliv
Jordproletärerna
Mana
Vishetslärarna
Astronomens hus
Statarnas liv och död
Folket och herrarna
Journalisten
Lyckan
Oxgraven och andra statarnoveller
Elektra, kvinna ȧr 2070
Lögnhalsarna
Statarlängan från Berga
Girigbukarna
Bara en mor (Rya-Rya)
Passionerna
Kungsgatan
Måna är död
La Tombe du boeuf et autres récits
Godnatt Jord
Geniet
Ur klyvnadens tid
Nunnan i Vadstena
Ivar och Eyvind
Romanen om Måna
Den sociala fotobildboken
Traktorn
Ordets makt
Elektra
En arbetares liv
Ungdomsnoveller
Vällustingarna
Kvinna år 2070
Ivar Lo-Johansson och konsten
Lögnhalsarna
Proletärförfattaren
Tisteldalen
Analfabeten
Bara en mor (Rya-Rya)
Kungsgatan
Måna är död
Godnatt, jord
Lyckan
Noveller
Statarnoveller
Författaren
Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell (1857-1944)

journalist, biographer, historian, investigative journalist

  • Allegheny College, Poland Seminary

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The life of Abraham Lincoln
The life of Abraham Lincoln, drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished
In Lincoln's chair
The early life of Abraham Lincoln
A short life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Boy scouts' life of Lincoln
All in the day's work
Madame Roland
Boy scouts' life of Lincoln
The American woman
The history of the Standard Oil Company
He knew Lincoln
Peacemakers, blessed and otherwise
The life of Elbert H. Gary
The business of being a woman
Madame Roland: A Biographical Study
The Rising Of The Tide
A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte: With a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French
New ideals in business, an account of their practice and their effects upon men and profits
Father Abraham
The tariff in our times
Abraham Lincoln and his ancestors
The nationalizing of business, 1878-1898
Owen D. Young,
He knew Lincoln, and other Billy Brown stories
Abraham Lincoln
The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Part Two)
Boy Scouts' Life of Lincoln
A history of the Standard Oil Company
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln Part One, V1
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln Part One, V2
McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI, No. I, December, 1895
The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volumes 1 & 2 in One Book)
In the Footsteps of the Lincolns
The Life of Abraham Lincoln ( Vols. 1&2 )
Mcclure's Magazine, No. I, December, 1895
The nationalizing of business, 1878-1898
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln Part Two, V1
The life of Abraham Lincoln drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs
The Life of Abraham Lincoln ( Vols. 1-4 )
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volumes 3 & 4 in One Book)
A reporter for Lincoln
The ways of woman
The history of the Standard Oil Company
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln Part Two, V2
A life of Napoleon Bonaparte
A life of Napoleon Bonaparte
The Life of Abraham Lincoln V2
The Business of Being a Woman
The Life of Abraham Lincoln ( Vols. 3&4 )
Abraham Lincoln
Life of Abraham Lincoln
Boy Scouts' Life of Lincoln (1921)
The life of Abraham Lincoln
New light on Lincoln's character
A life of Napoleon Boneparte
Special Series I - Lincoln
Lincoln and the soldiers
The life of Abraham Lincoln
The story of Lincoln's nomination in 1860
History of Standard Oil (Two Volumes in One)
The tariff in our times
Abraham Lincoln
The life of Abraham Lincoln
The History of the Standard Oil Company (Management Classics)
Lincoln not a Catholic
"Those who love Lincoln"
Abraham Lincoln edited by Ida M. Tarbell
Illinois state journal
Some great portraits of Lincoln
The rising of the tide
History of the Standard Oil
The nationalizing of business, 1878-1889
The history of the Standard Oil Company
Dodie Smith
Dodie Smith (1896-1990)

autobiographer, playwright

  • St Paul's Girls' School

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Look back with love
Look back with mixed feelings
Look back with astonishment
Look back with gratitude
I Capture the Castle
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
101 Dalmatians
The New Moon With the Old
The starlight barking
Walt Disney's 101 dalmatians.
Dog Stories by James Herriot, Rudyard Kipling, Gerald Durell and others
Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians
Disney's 102 Dalmatians
I capture the castle
Hundred and One Dalmatians
The hundred and one Dalmatians
Amateur Means Lover
101 Dalmatas
101 Dalmatians
One hundred and one dalmatians
The midnight kittens
The girl from the candle-lit bath
Disney's 101 Dalmatas/Spanish
It Ends with Revelations
Speak Up, Patch
Hundred and One Dalmatians
Call it a day
Dear octopus
Service
The town in bloom
Stories of the hundred and one dalmatians
Tale of Two Families
Les cent un dalmatiens
It Ends with Revelations
Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians
101 Dalmatians
The Hundred and one dalmations
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Starlight Barking
101 Dalmatians Big Book Penguin Young Reader, Level 3
Town in Bloom
Stop What You're Doing and Read to Your Daughter
101 Dalmatians
Bonnet over the windmill
Disney Classic - 101 Dalmatians
Mein Sommerschloß
The puppies' story
Dear octopus
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Disney's 101 Dalmatians
A tale of two families
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Penguin Young Readers Level 3
Lovers and friends
Hundred and One Dalmatians
Autumn crocus
Touch wood
101 and Starlight Barking
101 dalmatians
Hundred and One Dalmatians Modern Classic
Pongo's in love
Adventure Stories for Girls
101 dalmatyńczyków
101 dalmatians
The town in bloom
Tle of Two Fmilies
101 dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The starlight barking; more about the hundred and one dalmatians
Hundred and One Dalmatians
El Castillo Sonado
Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians
101 Dalmaçyali Çocuk Klasikleri
Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading)
I Capture the Castle
101 Dalmatian
Disney
Hundred and One Dalmatians (Children's Choice)
New Moon with the Old
101 Dalmations
El castillo soñado
New Moon with the Old
Town in Bloom
Starlight Barking (Deluxe)
Capture the Castle
It Ends with Revelations
Letter from Paris, a comedy
Starlight Barking
I Capture the Castle B Pbp
Walt Disneys the Lucky Puppy
101 dalmatyńczyków
I Capture the Castle B Special
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)
I Capture the Castle
GK - 101 Dalmacyali
Disney's Speak up, Patch!
Hundred and One Dalmatians / the Starlight Barking
Walt Disney's 101 dalmatians
Cassandra
101 dalmatians
Disney's 101 Dalmatians
Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians (Disney)
101 dalmatians
Les 101 dalmatiens
Call it a day
Le château de Cassandra
Who goes there?
It ends with revelations
What a mess, little puppies!
Reshimot Ḳasandrah
101 dalmatians
The Dalmatians' guess who?
Taʻalumat ha-kelavim ha-meʻofefim
The midnight kittens
101 dalmatians
Disney's puppy rescue
A Dalmatian day
Meʾah kelavim ṿe-eḥad
Nahum Sokolow
Nahum Sokolow (1859-1936)

linguist, journalist, translator, poet, politician, biographer

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Barukh Shpinozah u-zemano
Sefer Soḳolov
Ishim
Perzenlekhkaytn un folk
Perzenlekhḳeytn
Perzenlekhḳeyṭn un folḳ
History of Zionism, 1600-1918
Zionism in the Bible
History of Zionism
Sefer ha-yovel...Naḥum Soḳoloṿ
History of Zionism, 1600-1918
The new Jew
History of Zionism, 1600-1918
History of Zionism, 1600-1918 Volume 2
Ketavim nivḥarim
Zionism in the Bible
Oysgeṿehlṭe shrifṭen
Be-marʼot ha-ḳeshet
Perzenlekhḳayṭn un folḳ
Le-maranan ṿe-rabanan
Armagedon =
History of Zionism, 1600-1918; Volume 1
Śinʼat ʻolam le-ʻam ʻolam
'Sinʼat ʻolam le-ʻam ʻolam
Yalkut masot
History of Zionism
Perzenlekhkayṭn
Erets ḥemdah
נעורי הנשר, מגבורי ישראל
Tokhen ha-Tsiyonut
ha-Tsofeh le-vet Yiśraʾel
געאגראפישער אטלאס
האני הקבוצי
Ishim
Tražikomedia o yorar y riir
Naye praḳṭishe meṭhode der Englishen shprakhe
Masaʻ be-Iṭalyah
ha-Ḥeshbon ha-aḥaron
Ketavim nivḥarim le-zekher ḥag ḥatsi ha-yovel li-feʻulato ha-sifrutit (639-664)
Idishe froy
Naye praḳtịshe meṭhode der Englishen shprakhe ...
Naye praḳṭishe methode der Englishen shprakhe ...
Neʾum ha-petiḥah shel Naḥum Soḳolov, neśi ha-Histadrut ha-Tsiyonit
The Palestine question
Hibbath Zion (the love for Zion)
ha-Matsav ha-nokheḥi shel ha-Yehudim ba-ʻolam
Oysgeṿehlṭe shrifṭen
Oysgev Đehlt Đe shrift Đen
Le-maranan ve-rebanan, sefer kolel shitah mesuderet u-berurah ʻal devar ʻavodat ha-umah veha-zyoniut ha-shelemah
Ketavim nivḥarim
Sefer ha-yovel shel "ha-Tsefirah"
ʼĪshīm
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

linguist, poet, politician, translator, journalist, literary critic, biographer

  • Edinburgh College of Art, Langholm Academy

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Lucky poet
Correspondence
Scottish eccentrics [by] Hugh MacDiarmid
A drunk man looks at the thistle
Poems
Northern numbers
Contemporary Scottish studies
Raucle Tongue
Aesthetics in Scotland
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology: poems in Scots and English
Albyn
New selected letters
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse
The thistle rises
The terrible crystal
Hugh Macdiarmid
Contemporary Scottish studies
The socialist poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Annals of the five senses and other stories, sketches, and plays
The revolutionary art of the future
Sangschaw
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The Hugh MacDiarmid-George Ogilvie letters
The ugly birds without wings
The company I've kept
In memoriam James Joyce
Albyn: Shorter Books and Monographs (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Three hymns to Lenin
More collected poems
Selected prose
Living Scottish poets
Lucky Poet (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Raucle Tongue: Volume 2 (Lives & Letters: Macdiarmid 2000)
Hugh MacDiarmid Selected Poems
A Clyack-Sheaf
What's wrong with the "Songs of the Hebrides"
The complete poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish garden
Scots unbound and other poems
Sorabji symposium
Poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid, and a pibroch on his 80th birthday
When an old man dies the commonest cliche of his obituarists is: "We will not see his like again"
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] (C. M. Grieve)
The future of Scots poetry
Glasgow 1960
Virgilium vidi tantum
Stony limits and Scots unbound
Neil Gun and Scottish renaissance
An afternoon with Hugh MacDiarmid
Miracle in Edinburgh
The correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean
Song of the seraphim
Lucky Poet
A lap of honour
The Oxford book of Scottish verse chosen by John MacQueen and Tom Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid and David Jones
Song of the seraphim
More collected poems
The islands of Scotland
A vision of Scotland
Scotland - vive la difference
Direadh I, II and III
On the asportation of the Scone stone
The great McGonagall
Second hymn to Lenin
John Knox
Exports of pottery from the United Kingdom, 1948-1968
David Hume
Metaphysics and poetry
Selected poems
The fire of the spirit
Poems to paintings by William Johnstone, 1933
Introduction [to an exhibition of the work of William McCance]
In the Shetland Islands
Poetry like the hawthorn
A political speech
The poetry of Norman MacCaig
Mayakovskii
Great malt whiskies
The man of (almost) independent mind
The significance of R.E. Muirhead
Sydney Goodsir Smith
The lucky bag
John Montague's Ulster
" And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul"
Cunninghame Graham
Tribute to Harry Miller
A lap of honour
The islands of Scotland: Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetlands
Separatism
Scottish universal
The master-voyager of our age
Scottish arts and letters
Burns today and tomorrow
Cranks never make good democrats
A note on some foreign translations of Burns
The ugly birds without wings
When the birds come back to Rhiannon
Speaking for Scotland
Poetry like the hawthorn
To circumjack Cencrastus
Selected poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid
Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
On a raised beach
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The eemis stane
The breckanry
Two poems by Hugh MacDiarmid
Whuchulls
An apprentice angel
With the herring fishers
The battle continues
First hymn to Lenin, and other poems
ha-Barḳan ṿeha-gaviʻa
On a raised beach
The blaward and the skelly
Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid & Norman MacCaig
O wha's been here afore me, lass
At the sign of the thistle
In talk with Donnchadh bàn Mac an T'saoir
At my father's grave
Selected poems of Hugh Macdiarmid
First hymn to Lenin
When the rat-race is over
Edinburgh's smoky scene
Penny wheep
Selected poems
A kist of whistles
A herd of does
Six vituperative verses
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn
The MacDiarmids
To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The curly snake
Selected poems
To those of my old school who fell in the Second World War
Selected lyrics
The fall of France
Contemporary Scottish studies
The uncanny Scot
The bonnie broukit bairn
The Age of MacDiarmid
David Hume
Speaking for Scotland
Hugh Macdiarmid, selected lyrics
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Collected poems
Direadh
O wha's been here afore me lass?
The kind of poetry I want
Stony limits and other poems
Vouchsafed, a sign
Aesthetics in Scotland
Annals of the five senses
Cornish Heroic Song to Valda Trevlyn
Five pieces of Miller
The uncanny Scot
Francis George Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid, reading in Scots and English, Thursday evening, May 4, 1967 at 8:30pm [at] The 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, New York City [with] introductory comments by M.L. Rosenthal and Norman MacCaig
Suijin azami o miru
Twenty poems by Hugh MacDiarmid with twenty lithographs by William Johnstone
Montrose
Francis George Scott
The MacDiarmids
Poems addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, and presented to him on his seventy-fifth birthday by John M. Bett [and others]
Two memories
Second hymn to Lenin
Complete poems
Cunninghame Graham
The ministry of water
The burning passion
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve)
Poet at play, and other poems
Early lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
A lap of honour