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Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

vocalist, director, lyricist, composer, actor, poet, singer

  • St. Petersburg College, Florida State University

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Wilderness
The American night
Wilderness
The lords, and The new creatures
"Light my fire"
45 Acres of Fun & Tears
The Truth Shall Make You Mad
Life and songs, a biography = E zoi keta tragoudia ton
Seigneurs et Nouvelles Créatures
Eyes
Los amos
Ecrits
La nuit américaine
Nobody
Letters From Joe
Prière américaine
Sign of the Times
Los amos: Apuntes sobre las visiones
Jim Morrison & The Doors
CIA Psychic
Wildnis Die Verlorene Schrift
Arden lointain
Una Plegaria Americana y Otros Poemas
Jim Morrison's an American Prayer
The original published poetry of Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison - Poemas Ocultos
Jim Morrison - Obras Completas - Gobell
Jim Morrison's an American Prayer
Bank of America of Louisiana
Una oración americana
Strange times
American Night-Open Market
Bruno Barilli
Bruno Barilli (1880-1952)

composer, music critic, journalist, critic

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Srpski ratovi
Il paese del melodramma
Le guerre serbe
Lo stivale
Capricci di vegliardo e taccuini inediti (1901-1952)
Il viaggiatore volante
Lo spettatore stralunato
Ricordi londinesi
La camera n. 13
Il sorcio nel violino
Il dente di Barilli
Il sole in trappola
Il sole in trappola, diario del periplo dell'Africa (1931)
Brian May
Brian May (born 1947)

guitarist, astrophysicist, singer, composer, pianist, television presenter, record producer, actor, physicist, research fellow, YouTuber, lyricist

  • Imperial College London, University of London

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Queen in 3-D
Crinoline
Diableries
The Poor Man's Picture Gallery
A Village Lost And Found
The modernist as pragmatist
Understanding Russia
How to Make the Most of Your Tractor
Extravagant postcolonialism
Bang!
Guitar Styles
Indonesian Tragedy
Interactive Japanese Bk. 1
"Queen"
Evert Taube
Evert Taube (1890-1976)

singer, composer, poet, artist, musician

  • Malmö Borgarskola

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Strövtåg i Ranrike
I come from a raging sea: autobiographical sketches
Vallfart till Trubadurien och Toscana
Din tillgivne Georg
Eldflugorna dansar
Många hundra gröna mil
Dikter
Samlade berättelser med tillhörande visor och ballader
Vid tiden för Astri och Apollon
I come from a raging sea
Med äventyr i lasten, 09-59
Fritiof Anderssons visbok
De fyra vindarnas gata
Samlade bera ttelser med tillho rande visor och ballader
Strand och hav i öst och väst
Flyg till Pampas
Kom i min famn
Visor, ballader, serenader
I Najadernas gränd
Blå anemoner
Don Diego Karlsson de la Rosas roman
Evert Taube och Stockholm
Tillägnan
Samlade visor
Liliʻuokalani
Liliʻuokalani (1838-1917)

composer, monarch, autobiographer

  • Royal School

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Hawaii's story by Hawaii's queen, Liliuokalani
Kumulipo
Kumulipo
Kumulipo a Hawaiian Creation Myth
Hawaii's story
The Kumulipo
Claim of Liliuokalani
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709-1758)

autobiographer, composer, lutenist

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Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, margrave de Bareith, soeur de Frédéric-le-Grand
Eine preussische Königstochter
Memoirs of Wilhelmine
The misfortunate Margravine
Memoiren der Markgräfin Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, Schwester Friedrichs des Grossen
Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina
Eine preuszische Königstochter
La cour de Prusse sous Frédéric-Guillaume 1er
Eine preusische Königstochter
La cour de Prusse sous Frédéric-Guillaume 1er
Memoirs of Wilhelmine, margravine of Baireuth
Memoirs of Wilhelmine...
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine, margrave de Bayreuth, soeur de Frédéric le Grand, depuis l'année 1706 jusqu'à 1742, écrits de sa main
Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, princess royal of Prussia, margravine of Baireuth, sister of Frederick the Great
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prussia
Une résidence allemande au XVIIIe siècle
The Margravine of Baireuth and Voltaire
Memoirs of Wilhelmine, margravine of Baireuth
Mein Bruder Fritz
Barockfeste
Hryhorii Skovoroda
Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722-1794)

philosopher, composer, poet, translator

  • Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

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Fables and aphorisms
Hryhoriĭ Savych Skovoroda (ukraïnsʹkyĭ filʹosof)
Zhizneopisanie, sochinenii︠a︡
Kharkivsʹki baĭky
Sad pisenʹ
Sad boźh̀estvennykh pisen'
Literaturni tvory
Sochinenii︠a︡ v dvukh tomakh
Sochinenīi͡a
Katekhyzys, abo Pochatkovi dveri do khrystyi︠a︡nsʹkykh cheshot
Vybrani tvory v ukrainsʹkykh perekladakh
Virshi, pisni, baĭky, dialohy, traktaty, prytchi, prozovi pereklady, lysty
Povne zibranni︠a︡ tvoriv
Tvory u dvokh tomakh
Rozmova pro istynne shchasti︠a︡
Fábulas
Poeziï
Sochinenii︠a︡
Piznaĭ v sobi li͡u︡dynu
Hryhori Savych Skovoroda (ukraïnsky filosof)
Sobranīe sochinenīĭ G.S. Skovorody
Polnoe sobranie tekstov
Ukraïnsʹka baĭka
Izbrannoe
Tvory
Hryhorij Savyč Skovoroda (1722-1794)
Vybrani tvory
Vybrani tvory v dvokh tomakh
Tvory u dvokh tomakh
Yzraylskiĭ Zmiĭ [sic!]
Baĭky Kharkivsʹki
Ausgewählte Werke
Baĭky kharkivsʹki
Повне зібрання творів
Povna akademichna zbirka tvoriv
Svit lovyv mene, ta ne vpiĭmav / Hryhoriĭ Savych Skovoroda ; [upori︠a︡dkuvanni︠a︡, vstupna statti︠a︡ ta komentari V.V. Kravt︠s︡i︠a︡]
John Erskine
John Erskine (1879-1951)

composer, pianist, musicologist, literary critic, biographer, music critic

  • Columbia University, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School

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Leading American novelists
The complete life
My life in music
The human life of Jesus
My life as a teacher
George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930
The influence of women and its cure
The kinds of poetry
Song without words
The Elizabethan lyric
Written English
The kinds of poetry, and other essays
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
A pageant of the thirteenth century
The shadowed hour
A musical companion
The moral obligation to be intelligent
Contemporary war poems
A pageant of the thirteenth century, for the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon
The memory of certain persons
The private life of Helen of Troy
American character and other essays
Democracy and ideals
Prohibition and Christianity
The delight of great books
Venus, the lonely goddess
The literary discipline
Tristan and Isolde restoring Palamede
What is music?
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York, its first hundred years
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York
Actaeon
Collected poems
Cinderella's daughter
Penelope's man
The start of the road
Amateur music and recreation leadership
Casanova's women
The President's mystery story
Universal training for national defense
Solomon, my son!
Collected poems, 1907-1922
Jack and the beanstalk
Forget if you can
The brief hour of François Villon
Actæon
Unfinished business
The Elizabethan lyric; a study
Hélène, retour de Troie
Young love
Sonata
Adam and Eve
Das privatleben der schönen Helena
The enchanted garden
Mrs. Doratt
The voyage of Captain Bart
The Cambridge history of American literature
Why study?
Cinderella's daughter and other sequels and consequences
Bachelor-of arts
Sincerity
Galahad
The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and ...
The Cambridge history of American literature
The delight of great books
Uncle Sam in the eyes of his family
Adam and Eve, though he knew better
The Cambridge history of American literature
A musical companion
Written English
Democracy and idealism
Walt Whitman
Leading American novelists
Give me liberty
American character and other essays, selected from the writings of John Erskine
The delight of great books
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Hearts enduring
The Cambridge history of American literature
Adam and Eve
Prohibition and Christianity
Galahad
An experiment in sincerity
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
The complete life
The Elizabethan lyric
Peter kills the bear
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature