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Peter Gay
Peter Gay (1923-2015)

psychologist, cultural historian, historian, autobiographer

  • University College London, Columbia University

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Freud
Mozart
Art and act
Reading Freud
My German question
My German question
Moritz Fröhlich-Morris Gay
A life of learning
Freĭd
A life of learning
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment: an interpretation
The Bourgeois experience
Schnitzler's century
Freud for Historians
The Cultivation of Hatred
Style in history
A Godless Jew
The Tender Passion
Modern Europe to 1815
Modernism
The dilemma of democratic socialism
Education of the senses
Age of Enlightenment (Great Ages of Man)
Pleasure wars
The Enlightenment; a comprehensive anthology
Weimar culture
Historians at work
Voltaire's politics
Savage Reprisals
A loss of mastery
Voltaire's politics
Weimar culture
Age of enlightenment
The cultivation of hatred
Freud for Historians
Mozart
Sigmund Freud and Art
Deism
The Naked Heart (Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Vol. 4)
Freud, Jews and Other Germans
The party of humanity
The bridge of criticism; dialogues among Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire on the Enlightenment
Modern Europe
The Enlightenment
My German question
Weimar culture: the outsider as insider
The Enlightenment
Schnitzler's Century The Making Of Middle-class Culture 1815 - 1914
Freud, une vie, tome 2
Mozart
Why the romantics matter
The Bridge of criticism
The Berlin-Jewish spirit, a dogma in search of some doubts
Freud a Life for Our Time
Historians at work
Age of enlightenment
Pleasure Wars (Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud/Peter Gay, Vol 5)
La edad de las luces
The Cultivation of Hatred (Gay, Peter//Bourgeois Experience)
Schnitzler Y Su Tiempo
The rise of modern paganism
Cultivation of Hatred (The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud, Vol 3)
Freud, une vie, tome 1
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 1: Education of the Senses (The Bourgeois Experience : Victoria to Freud, Vol 1)
Age of enlightment
The Naked Heart (Bourgeois Experience, Vol. 4)
Das Zeitalter des Doktor Arthur Schnitzler. Innenansichten des 19. Jahrhunderts
Modern Europe
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience
Le siècle des lumières
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eighteenth century studies
X Y Z
Eighteenth century studies
Kult der Gewalt. Aggression im bürgerlichen Zeitalter
Ein gottloser Jude
Deism; an anthology
An introduction to crystal optics
Experiencia Burguesa I - de Victoria a Freud
Die Macht des Herzens. Das 19. Jahrhundert und die Erforschung des Ich
Style in history
Meine deutsche Frage. Jugend in Berlin 1933 - 1939
Freud. Eine Biographie für unsere Zeit
Naked Heart (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Vol. 4)
Un Judio Sin Dios
The party of humanity
UC Mozart
Ein gottloser Jude
Bürger und Boheme. Kunstkriege des 19. Jahrhunderts
Het modernisme
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2: The Tender Passion (The Bourgeois Experience : Victoria to Freud, Vol II)
A loss of mastery
Modern Europe
Experiencia Burguesa de V. Freud, La
Freud a Life for Our Ti-V2
Freud a Life for Our Ti-V1
Weimar bunka
Enlightenment Science of Freedom
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2
The Enlightenment, an interpretation
Weimar culture
Age of Enlightenment (Great Ages of Man)
Sigmund Freud and art
The bridge of criticism
The dilemma of democratic socialism
Freud, Otra Vez
Pleasure wars
Age of enlightenment
Aron Ralston
Aron Ralston (born 1975)

engineer, motivational speaker, mountaineer, autobiographer

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
127 Hours Vol. 5
Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell (born 1945)

biographer, teacher, film actor

  • University of Washington

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Bruce Lee
The Bruce Lee story
Breaking the chains of the ancient warrior
The life and tragic death of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Jeet Kune Do
Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)

horticulturist, politician, diplomat, diarist, journalist, biographer

  • University of Oxford, Wellington College

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Some people
Byron
Swinburne
Benjamin Constant
Some people
The war years, 1939-1945
Paul Verlaine
Tennyson; aspects of his life, character and poetry
Diaries and letters, 1930-1964
Sainte-Beuve
Dwight Morrow
The later years, 1945-1962
Curzon: the last phase, 1919-1925
The development of English biography
King George the Fifth
Swinburne and Baudelaire
Tennyson's two brothers
Small Talk
The development of English biography. --
Paul Verlaine
The development of English biography
Diaries and letters
Diaries and letters
Peacemaking, 1919
The English sense of humour
The age of reason
The Congress of Vienna
Diaries and letters, 1930-1964
Sweet waters
Diplomacy
The Congress of Vienna
The evolution of diplomatic method, being the Chichele lectures delivered at the University of Oxford in November 1953
The age of reason
Sainte-Beuve
Peacemaking 1919
Diaries and letters [of] Harold Nicolson
Small talk
Peacemaking, 1919
Another world than this ..
Diaries and letters
Good behaviour
Peacemaking, 1919, being reminiscences of the Paris peace conference
Kak delalsi͡a︡ mir v 1919 g
Portrait of a diplomatist
The Congress of Vienna
The Harold Nicolson diaries
Diaries and letters [by] Harold Nicolson
Diplomacy
The meaning of prestige
The evolution of diplomatic method
Curzon
Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock
The Congress of Vienna A Study in Allied Unity
Friday mornings, 1941-1944
Peacemaking 1919
The Desire to please, a story of Hamilton Rowan and the United Irishmen. --
Dwight Morrow
The Congress of Vienna, a study in allied unity
Peacemaking, 1919
Diplomacy
Le congrès de Vienne
Peacemaking, 1919
Marginal comment, January 6-August 4 1939
Tennyson
Die Verschwörung der Diplomaten
The age of reason, the eighteenth century
Nachkriegsdiplomatie
Marginal comment
The desire to please
King George the fifth
The Harold Nicolson diaries and letters 1907-1964
The age of reason (1700-1789)
Peacemaking, 1919. --
Der Wiener Kongress
Helen's tower
Diaries and letters (of) Harold Nicolson
Diaries and letters 1939-1945
Diaries and letters 1945-1962
Public faces
Germany and the Rhineland
Comments
People and things
Monarchy
The new spirit in literature
Why Britain is at war
Journey to Java
Diaries and letters
National character and national policy
Good behaviour
The age of reason (1770-1789)
Swinburne
Benjamin Constant
The Congress of Vienna,: A study in allied unity
Tennyson, aspects of his life, character poetry
The age of reason (1700-1789)
The old diplomacy and the new
Swinburne and Baudelaire
The English sense of humour, an essay
The future of the English-speaking world
Tennyson, aspects of his life, character and poetry
Diaries and letters 1930-1939
The evolution of diplomacy
Journey to Java
The independent member of parliament
Public faces
Monarchy
Curzon: the last phase, 1919-1925
Politics in the train
L' évolution des méthodes en diplomatie
Jeanne de Hénaut
Diaries and letters
The poetry of Byron
Good behavior
La diplomacia
Sainte-Beuve
Paul Verlaine
Kings, courts and monarchy
The colonial problem
England
King George the fifth
The evolution of diplomatic method
Monarchy
Sainte-Beuve
La Diplomacia
Benjamin Constant
Time to flower
Dwight Morrow,
Curzon
Diaries and letters, 1945-1962
DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1907-1964; ED BY NIGEL NICOLSON
Peacemaking, 1919
Helen's tower
Swinburne
Diaries and letters
The Congress of Vienna, a study in allied unity
Diaries and letters, 1945-1962
Swinburne
Tennyson
France talks with Hitler
The Congress of Vienna
Comments, 1944-1948
Some people
Dwight Morrow
Sainte-Beuve
Curzon, the last phase, 1919-1925
Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., first Lord Carnock
Portrait of a diplomatist, Sir Arthur Nicolson, bart., first Lord Carnock
King George the fifth
Swinburne
King George V
Why Britain is at war
Kings, courts and monarchy
Tennyson's two brothers
The desire to please
Public faces
The evolution of diplomatic method
Tennyson
Helen's Tower
Sweet waters
People and things
Marginal comment
Good behaviour
Monarchy
Journey to Java
The future of the English-speaking world
Journey to Java
Diplomaṭyah
Public faces
Comments, 1944-1948
Diplomacy
Diaries and letters, 1930-1939
The evolution of diplomatic method
The meaning of prestige
The desire to please
Tennyson
In search of the past
Why Britain is at War
Sweet waters
The desire to please
Tennyson's two brothers
The development of English biography
Some people
Byron, the last journey, April 1823-April 1824
Friday mornings 1941-1944
Why Britain is at war
The English sense of humour
Curzon
Diaries and letters, 1939-1945
Byron: the last journey
Paul Preston
Paul Preston (born 1946)

historian, professor, biographer, Hispanist

  • St Edward's College, Oriel College

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We saw Spain Die
Doves of War
Mother father deaf
Franco
The Last Stalinist
El gran manipulador
Juan Carlos
Comrades!
Las Tres Españas Del 36
Salvador de Madariaga and the Quest for Liberty in Spain
The Coming of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Holocaust
The politics of revenge
La Guerra Civil española
The Republic Besieged
La muerte de Guernica
The Spanish Civil War
La Guerra Civil
The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939
The War without End
The Triumph of Democracy in Spain
Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century
Spain in crisis
A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
La guerra civil española
The Popular front in Europe
Spain, the EEC, and NATO
A People Betrayed
Las derechas españolas en el siglo XX
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War
Elites and power in twentieth-century Spain
The Spanish Right under the Second Republic
Arquitectos del terror
La destrucción de la democracia en España
Connie
Increase profits through more effective motor carrier selling
Historia gráfica de la Guerra Civil
Botxins i repressors
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Politics of Revenge
Leadership strategies for health care managers / Paul Preston
British documents on foreign affairs
British documents on foreign affairs
Last Days of the Spanish Republic
España ante la CEE y la OTAN
De la revolución liberal a la democracia parlamentaria
Juan Carlos
La destrucción de la democracia en España
La Guerra Civil espanyola
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Silencios desde la guerra civil española
Leviatán
Paul Preston's Voyages, Travels and Remarkable Adventures As Related by Himself
Destruction of Guernica
Never More Alive
Fighter Fell in Love
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Josep Massot i Muntaner. El combat per la història
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, Part 3, From 1940 through 1945: Series G, Africa (5 Volumes)
The Alpine guide, or, The veteran of Marengo
British documents on foreign affairs
La Guerra Civil Española
La guerra civil espanola / A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
Conscience and Conflict
British documents on foreign affairs
The Princess of Viarna, or, The Spanish Inquisition in the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth
La política de la venganza
España en la guerra civil europea
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
The count's niece, or, The veteran of Marengo
British documents on foreign affairs
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Robert Barltrop
Robert Barltrop (1922-2009)

biographer

  • Sir George Monoux College

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ack London
The muvver tongue
The monument
Growing up in North East London between the Wars
A funny age
Yes Mush
Bright summer - dark autumn
My mother's calling me
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936)

sport cyclist, journalist, biographer, art critic

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The life of James McNeill Whistler
Charles Godfrey Leland
Nights: Rome, Venice, in the aesthetic eighties
Lithography and lithographers
Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Whistler the friend
Nights
The Whistler journal
Charles Godfrey Leland
Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
To gipsyland
French cathedrals, monasteries and abbeys, and sacred sites of France
Our journey to the Hebrides
Our house and London out of our windows
My cookery books
Our house and the people in it
Our Philadelphia
A Guide for the Greedy by a Greedy Woman (Kegan Paul Library of Culinary Arts)
A guide for the greedy by a greedy woman
The lovers
Over the Alps on a bicycle
The feasts of Autolycus
Charles Godfrey Leland a Biography
Tantallon Castle
Charles Godfrey Leland a Biography V1
The Feasts of Autolycus the Diary of a Greedy Woman
The Life And Letters Of Joseph Pennell V1
The life and letters of Joseph Pennell
French Cathedrals
Charles Godfrey Leland a Biography Part Two
Our house
Italy's garden of Eden
The art of Whistler
Charles Godfrey Leland
A guide for the greedy
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Life And Letters Of Joseph Pennell V2
Joseph Pennell
A guide for the greedy by a greedy woman
Lithography and litographers
London's underground railways
The life of James McNeill Whistler
Around London by bicycle
Quaint corners in Philadelphia
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Quaint corners in Philadelphia
Cooking in Old Créole Days: La Cuisine Créole à L'usage Des Petits Ménages
Catalogue of Books Printed by William Bradford and Other Printers in the Middle Colonies ...
The life of James McNeill Whistler
My cookery books
The master of the lithograph. J. McNeill Whistler
Lithography and lithographers
French cathedrals
Joseph Pennell
Some memories of William Morris
Quaint corners in Philadelphia
Mary Wollstonecraft
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Carl Clinton Van Doren (1885-1950)

literary critic, biographer, journalist

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Columbia University

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Benjamin Franklin
Contemporary American novelists, 1900-1920
Swift
Three worlds
Sinclair Lewis, a biographical sketch
An Illinois boyhood
Benjamin Franklin
The great rehearsal
James Branch Cabell
Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs
Carl Van Doren
Many minds
Secret history of the American Revolution
The great rehearsal
Secret history of the American Revolution
American and British literature since 1890
The American novel
American scriptures
Swift
Travel and tourism
Sinclair Lewis
Indian treaties printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762
The life of Thomas Love Peacock
The roving critic
The American novel, 1789-1939
The Cambridge history of American literature
What is American literature?
Sinclair Lewis, a biographical sketch
Modern American prose
The great rehearsal
Jane Mecom
Mutiny in January
What is American literature?
Mark Twain and Bernard Shaw
An anthology of world prose
Some days with Washington
Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards
Other provinces
The Life Of Jonathan Swift
Jane Mecom, the favorite sister of Benjamin Franklin
Youth and wings
Fools of God and doctors of the Church
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
La novela norteamericana, 1789-1939
Carl Van Doren
American literature
An American Omnibus
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Borzoi reader
Contemporary American Novelists
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Borzoi reader
James Branch Cabell
Americana esoterica
The Cambridge history of American literature
Cato's moral distichs
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Borzoi reader
The patriotic anthology
The American novel, 1789-1939
An American omnibus
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
The ninth wave
The Cambridge history of American literature
Mutiny in January
Many minds
The Secret History of America
Swift
James Branch Cabell
Contemporary American novelists 1900-1920
Letters from Carl
What is American literature?
American and British literature since 1890
Secret history of the American Revolution
Swift
Kısa Amerikan edebiyatı tarihi (What is American litterature [!])
The roving critic
The patriotic anthology
American scriptures
The London omnibus
The patriotic anthology
James Branch Cabell
The Cambridge history of American literature
William Butler Yeats as an interpreter of modern life
Modern American prose
James Branch Cabell
Sinclair Lewis
The travels of Baron Munchausen
Three worlds
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Benjamin Franklin
An anthology of world prose