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John Buchan
John Buchan (1875-1940)

journalist, politician, military personnel, biographer, poet, barrister, diplomat

  • University of Oxford, University of Glasgow

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Mr. Standfast
The half-hearted
Greenmantle
Huntingtower
Prester John
Faeries
Salute to Adventurers
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Path of the King
The Courts of the morning
Castle Gay
Nelson's history of the war
Pilgrim's way
The dancing floor
The three hostages
John Macnab
The power-house
Sick Heart River
Midwinter
The gap in the curtain
27 Classic Short Stories
Witch Wood
Sir Quixote of the Moors
The Runagates Club
The Free Fishers
The massacre of Glencoe
Augustus
Memory hold-the-door
The house of the four winds
The blanket of the dark
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole 02. Das rote Zimmer
The last secrets
A Date With Danger
THE DEVIL'S COVEN
The moon endureth
The Magic Walking-Stick
Brasenose college
A prince of the captivity
Sir Walter Scott
A history of English literature
Montrose
A history of the great war
The Complete Richard Hannay
Oliver Cromwell
The Marquis of Montrose
The African colony
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories
Poems
Francis and Riversdale Grenfell
The battle of the Somme
Italy
Some eighteenth century byways, and other essays
Ready Readers
To catch a spy
Island of Sheep, the
A lost lady of old years
Scottish Stories
The Leithen Stories
The far islands and other tales of fantasy
The long traverse
The novel and the fairy tale
No-Man's-land
Musa piscatrix
The four adventures of Richard Hannay
The law relating to the taxation of foreign income
Two ordeals of democracy
The long road to victory
The history of the South African forces in France
The clearing house
Third Clasic Thriller Collection
Julius Caesar
The Watcher by the Threshold and Other Tales
The Pilgrim Fathers
The thirty-nine steps and The power-house
The Battle of the Somme, second phase
Homilies and recreations
These for remembrance
The King's Grace
The kirk in Scotland, 1560-1929
John Burnet of Barnes
The northern muse
The complete short stories
The battle of the Somme, first phase
Grey weather
Mandate of Heaven
Lord Minto
Britain's war by land
The Scotswoman by Fletcher, Inglis
Yugoslavia
The causal and the casual in history
John Bernet of Barns - A Romance
John Buchan
Nilima Mrutyu Pami Chhe (Gujarati Edition)
The Thirty-Nine Steps" / "Witchwood"
Supernatural Tales
The man and the book
The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan
Gordon at Khartoum
Second Classic Thriller Collection
Best of John Buchan
Days to remember
Call Of The Wind, White Fang, The Scarlet Plague
Episodes of the Great War
A book of escapes and hurried journeys
Andrew Lang and the Border
The people's king, George V
The Thirty-Nine Steps & the Greenmantle
The best short stories of John Buchan
Some notes on Sir Walter Scott
Lord Rosebery, 1847-1930 [!]
Thriller and Modern Literature Pack Updated
The Adventures of Dickson McCunn
Adventures of James Jan Sales Boa
Presbyterianism, yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow
Adventures of Richard Hannay
Anthropologica Incognita
1918-Catastrophe to Victory
Hannay's War
Men and deeds
Cromwell
Journey into Fear / The 39 Steps / And Then There Were None / The Maltese Falcon / The Nine Tailors / The Doorbell Rang
A lodge in the wilderness
A shorter history of English literature
Basilissa
Musa Piscatrix
Die neununddreißig Stufen
Lake of gold
Modern short stories
The battle of Jutland
John Buchan. 1
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall
Keeper of Cademuir
Richard Hannay Trilogy
War with Turkey, 1914-18----Volume 1
Comments and characters
Richard Hannay- The First Trilogy
An address by His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir ... at a special convocation, November 23rd, 1935
Scholar-gipsies
El poder ocult
Dickson Trilogy
Prester John
English literature
The interpreter's house
Selected Stories of John Buchan
Journey of Little Profit
The Best Short Stories
Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures
Thriller and Modern Literature Pack
Essays And Studies
Le collier du prêtre Jean
La Centrale d'énergie
The Complete Short Stories - Volume One
Companions of the Way
Grove of Ashtaroth
A Five-Fold Salute to Adventure
Essential John Buchan Collection
Quality and quantity
The history of the Royal Scots fusiliers (1678-1918)
John Buchan - Nelson's History of the War - Volume III
Dangerous Dimensions New Pub Date Jan 2021
Space
The Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Prester John
Richard Hannay's War Adventures
Bulgaria and Romania [The Nations of To-Day]
Naval episodes of the great war
Adventurers all
The man from the Norlands
Outgoing of the Tide
John Buchan
Buchan's war
THE FOUR ADVENTURES OF RICHArD HANNAY.
Classic John Buchan Stories
British America
Fullcircle
Four tales
The written and the spoken word
John Buchan By Wife Friends
Scottish Historical Fiction
Three Great Thrillers Set (For Son of Whitesale Only)
The Thirty-Nine Steps
El viento en el pórtico
Modern Mystery and Adventure Novels
El Baston Magico
Best Short Stories of John Buchan
Farewell to Priorsford
The Richard Hannay Collection
Ultimate Richard Hannay Collection
Meditations of a country chiel
India
The nations of to-day
Canadian occasions
The Changing IT Skills Scene
Sir Walter Scott : 1832-1932
Witch wood
Dalquharter
PAMs into the 1990s
Glimpses of John Buchan
The Supply of Teachers
The adventures of Sir Edward Leithen
Im Westen was neues
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

journalist, film producer, opinion journalist, dietitian, politician, poet, playwright

  • Columbia University, City College of New York

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Manassas
Unseen Upton Sinclair
Manassas a Novel of the War
A West Point treasure
Manassas
Oil!
The Jungle
King Coal
Words of Ages
Boston
The Metropolis
The Moneychangers
100%
I, candidate for governor
Damaged goods
The Profits of Religion
The brass check
The millennium
Theirs be the guilt
Money writes!
Prince Hagen
Eine neue Pamela
Dragon harvest
A world to win
They Call Me Carpenter
Wide is the gate
Mental radio
A captain of industry
The journal of Arthur Stirling
Presidential agent
Dragon's teeth
One clear call
Affectionately, Eve
Jimmie Higgins
Little steel
King Midas
Love's Pilgrimage
The flivver king
One Hundred Percent
The coal war
The fasting cure
The cup of fury
Plays of protest
The wet parade
The goose-step
Sylvia's Marriage
American outpost
The enemy had it too
Sylvia
The book of life
Samuel the Seeker
The crimes of the "Times"
Mountain city
Upton Sinclair presents William Fox
Roman holiday
The Machine
The Naturewoman
Letters to Judd, an American workingman
O shepherd, speak!
No pasaran!
The Goose Step a Study of American Education
Mental Radio
My lifetime in letters
Co-op
The Profits of Religion Fifth Edition
Mammonart
The cry for justice
The industrial republic
Book of Life
The Pot Boiler
A Personal Jesus
Springtime and harvest
Presidential mission
Between two worlds
A giant's strength
I, governor of California, and how I ended poverty
Di ba lu jun di gan bu ren wu jian ying
The way out
Cry for Justice
The land of orange groves and jails
The goslings
The Profits of Religion
Damaged Goods
Bill Porter
Prisoner of Morro
The gnomobile
Love's Pilgrimage (A Novel)
Who Built America 3e V2 & US History Atlas & Souls of Black Folk & Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 & Jungle
What God means to me
The Goslings A Study Of The American Schools
The spy
Presidential mission 1942-1943
Profits of Religion
Our Lady
Fasting Cure
A world to win, 1940-1942
A World to Win I. (World's End)
Werter Genosse, die Maliks haben beschlossen--
World's End I (World's End)
Peace or war in America
Jungle
Wally for queen!
One Clear Call
Presidential Agent
Wide Is the Gate 1 (World's End Series 7)
Dragon Harvest
Wide Is the Gate
Dragon Harvest I (World's End)
World's End I + (see insturctions)
O Shepherd, Speak
The Profits of Religion (An Essay in Economic Interpretation)
They Call Me Carpenter (A Tale of the Second Coming)
The Book of Life, Mind and Body
The autobiography of Upton Sinclair
Presidential Agent II (World's End)
The Fasting Cure (1911)
King Coal
Love's Pilgrimage
Mental Radio 1930
A World to win 1940-42
The Secret Life of Jesus
Marie Antoinette
Money Changers
The return of Lanny Budd
Classics Illustrated - The Jungle
The Jungle SparkNotes Literature Guide
The Journal of Arthur Stirling ("The Valley of the Shadow")
The Midas Touch
World's End II
The Brass Check
Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two
Jimmie Higgins
Prisoner of Morro
Sikago Mezbahalari
Fasting Cure
Boston
Dragon Harvest II (World's End)
A World To Win
Theirs be the guild
Candid reminiscences
Goslings by Upton Sinclair
One Clear Call II (World's End)
The Return of Lanny Budd II (World's End)
Is the American form of capitalism essential to the American form of democracy
Dragon Harvest
Jimmie Higgins
Il faticone (Jimmie Higgins)
Cruise of the Training Ship
Taĭny t͡sisarsʹkoï rodyny v Vidni
The brass checka study of American journalism
The Lie Factory Starts
The Return of Lanny Budd
Presidential Mission
Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism
The art of health
Moneychangers
One Clear Call (World's End Series, Volume 17)
Good Health and How We Won It with an Account of the New Hygiene
The brass check
Between Two Worlds Vol. II
Jungle; C. 1
Dragon's Teeth II (World's End)
Presidential Mission II (World's End)
Money Writes!
Presidential Agent
Mental Radio
The overman
The Moneychangers
(american Classic) Jimmie Higgins
Hell
They Call Me Carpenter
Jungle
Profits of Religion
Wide Is the Gate
Raistas (the Jungle) Parase Upton Sinclair. Lietuviskon Kalbon Versta Is Angliskos Isleido Jonas Naujokas
Moneychangers
Captain of Industry
On guard
The Profits of Religion; an Essay in Economic Interpretation
The Works of Upton Sinclair - Part II (Vol. 9 - Vol. 16)
One Clear Call
Boston
Between Two Worlds I (World's End)
O Shepard Speak
Industrial Republic
Machine
We, people of America, and how we ended poverty;: A true story of the future,
Love's Pilgrimage
Damaged Goods
A World to Win II (World's End Series, Volume 14)
The Works of Upton Sinclair - Part III (Vol 17 - Vol. 23)
The Jungle [1/2]
Between Two Worlds Vol. III
Profits of Religion
Presidential Miss
Dragon's Teeth
The EPIC plan for California
It happened to Didymus
Metropolis
Cry for Justice
Penezomenci =
Pot Boiler
Brass Check
Expect no peace!
The Jungle
The Overman
Moneychangers
Flivver King
Letters to Judd, an American Workingman
Presidential Agent
I, candidate for governor: and how I got licked
Books of Upton Sinclair in translations and foreign editions
Dragon's Teeth
O Shepherd, Speak! I (World's End)
Fasting Cure
Upton Sinclair on the Soviet Union
Fasting and the Use of Meat
Jung
William Fox
Drakskörd
Ein literarischer Gang an die Börse
Presidential Mission I (World's End)
Jimmie Higgins
Boston
Limbo on the loose
Presidential Agent I (World's End)
One Clear Call
Return of Lanny Budd
Book of Life
Books of Upton Sinclair, in translation and foreign editions
Plays of Protest: The Naturewoman, The Machine, The Second-story Man, Prince ..
Letters to Judd
Prisoner of Morro
World's End
The spokesman's secretary
Dragon Harvest
Cruise of the Training Ship
The Jungle - Activity Pack
The cry for Justice
They Call Me Carpenter
The Cry For Justice
Petrol!
World's End II (World's End Series 2)
O Shepherd, Speak!
JUNGLE and the MACHINE
Manassas
The Millenium
Presidential Mission
The gnome-mobile
Best of Sinclair
The Old South, book collection on CD
The Fasting Cure
Captain of Industry
Singing jailbirds
To solve the German problem--a free state?
A World to Win
How I got licked and why
The Naturewoman
The return of Lanny Budd, 1946-1949
They Call Me Carpenter
Machine
Kan Dökülücek
Moneychangers
Cento per cento
August 22nd
O Shepherd, Speak! Ii. (World's End)
The Overman (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Socialism and War; No. 276
Autokönig Ford
World's End I
Immediate EPIC
Prince Hagen
Return of Lanny
This world of 1949 and what to do about it
I, Candidate for Governor
Return of Lanny Budd
Socialism and war
Overman
Damaged Goods
Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox
Olaj!
King Coal; a Novel
No pasarán
King Midas
Wide Is the Gate II (World's End)
The Return of Lanny Budd I (World's End)
Saint Thomas d'Hollywood (What Didymus did)
The Profits of Religion
Dragon's Teeth
Mental Radio
King Midas
El rey del automovil
The Works of Upton Sinclair - Part I (Vol. 1 - Vol. 8)
World's end
The Fasting Cure
Damaged Goods: The Great Play "Les Avariés" by Brieux
Terror in Russia?
The brass check, a study of American journalism
Another Pamela
Wide Is The Gate
Goslings by Upton Sinclair
Lanny Budd Novels Volume One
Jimmie Higgins: A Story of Upton Sinclair ... [1919]
They Call Me Carpenter
On the Soviet Union
William Fox
Sylvia
Good health and how we won it, with an account of the new hygiene
Moneychangers
American Promise 5e V2 & Reading the American Past 5e V2 & Jungle & Pocket Guide to Writing in History 7e
Your million dollars
Jungle , The
The Pot Boiler
What Didymus did
Spy. --
Brass Check
From Upton Sinclair, a statement to the readers of his books
क्षतिग्रस्त सामग्री
Profits of Religion
What's the use of books
In the Net of the Visconti
A Cadet's Honor
My Lifetime in Letters. --
Dragon's Teeth I (World's End)
Letters to Judd
Král tragačov
Mountain City
Press-titution
Between Two Worlds
We, people of America, and how we ended poverty
The Superpowers! of Therapeutic Fasting
Dragon Harvest
Prince Hagen
King Midas
Goose-Step
Between Two Worlds II (World's End)
Moneychangers, The (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
The Naturewoman
Book of Life
Upton Sinclair on "Comrade" Kautsky
Alkohol
Krol Wegiel
World's End
Marie and her lover
Sylvia; a Novel
World's End
Letters to Judd, an American Workingman
Epic answers
The jungle
"No pasarán !"
Boston; A Novel/2 Volumes in 1
Oil!
The lie factory starts
Mei you
An Upton Sinclair anthology
Damaged goods
Profits of Religion, The (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
One clear call, 1943-1944
Concluding chapters of Boston
Jatky
The journal of Arthur Stirling
Mammonart
Tai ping shi jie
Dos bukh fun lebn
Socialism and war
Fra due mondi
Bosidun
The jungle
Boston
Shan cheng
Römische vision, roman
Manassas
Sylvia (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Mi tan
The spokesman's secretary
Markets and misery
Mountain City
The West Point rivals, or, Mark Mallory's stratagem
What can be done about America's economic troubles?
Qiu zhen zhe
The brass check
Letters to a millionaire
My lifetime in letters
Gong ren Jiemai
Between two worlds, 1919-1929
Is the American form of capitalism essential to the American form of democracy?
O shepherd, speak!, 1945-1946
ha-Melekh peḥam
A world to win
The Jungle
Janguru
The second-story man
Dos bukh fun lebn
Wen gai
Your million dollars
Journal of Arthur Stirling, The (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Telling the world
The book of love
Upton Sinclair on CD-ROM
Between two worlds
World's end
מלך המכוניות
What Didymus did (whether you believe it or not)
Upton Sinclair anthology
Hell
Upton Sinclair
So macht man Dollars
The Journal of Arthur Stirling: "The valley of the shadow"
Tussen twee werelden
Goose-Step, The (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
What can be done about America's economic troubles?
Between two worlds
Springtime and Harvest (republished as King Midas)
Jimmie Higgins
Peregrinación de amor
Manassas: A Novel of the War
Der Ameriḳaner milyoner
Overman, The (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
They Call Me Carpenter (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Weit ist das Tor
The naturewoman
Pout lásky
King Midas (formerly published as Springtime and Harvest)
Mountain City
Little steel
Dragon harvest
Upton Sinclair papers
The spokesman's secretary
Xinkelai de zong jiao si xiang
Presidential mission
!Petróleo ...!
Dragon harvest, 1938-1940
Hundert prozent
Hong qian xian
The Profits of Religion an Essay in Economic Interpretation
Bai jin zhu yi
O shepherd, speak! By Upton Sinclair
Du shi
Xin li wu xian dian
Ḳets ha-ʻolam
We, people of America, and how we ended poverty
American outpost
The pot boiler
Man nennt mich Zimmermann
The autobiography of Upton Sinclair
Teufelsernte
Zhui qiu zhe
Off for West Point
Wall Street
The cup of fury
The profits of religion, an essay in economic interpretation
Terror in Russia?
American Promise Compact 3e V2 & Jungle & Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s
Soocialism and culture
Dzhimmi Khiggins
Mountain City
The machine
Mountain City
Jigoku
The cry for justice
Sylvia
Brass Check, The (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Prince Hagen
Three plays
ha- Melekh peḥām
Dragon's teeth, 1929-1934
˜Derœ Dschungel
Qian mo
I, governor of California, and how I ended poverty
World's end
Epic Plan For California, The
Briṿ tsum arbeṭer
Samuel the Seeker (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Co-op
World's end
"Spirits" in American literature
Heroĭ kapitalu
Der Sündenlohn
The flivver king
A Pen to Change America (CD)
O shepherd, speak!
Zey ṿeln niṭ durkhgeyn!
Konfident
Hyōron Haikin geijutsu
The second story man
Ōgon jidai
The goose-step
Shi ye ling xiu
Depression island
Cai fa
Jimmie Higgins (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Immediate EPIC
World's end
Meiguo wen yi jie de guai zhuang
100%
Das Ende der Armut
El rey del automovil
Prince Hagen
Presidential agent
Industrial Republic, The (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Ro mai La toma s
Tussen twee werelden
Hariuddo bakugeki
The journal of Arthur Stirling
Captain of Industry. A (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
The moneychangers
Di yu
A Socialist view of German victory
A world to win
Prince Hagen (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Metropole
Petrolej!
They call me Carpenter
Shi tan wang
Di ba lu jun di gan bu ren wu jian ying
Taĭny t͡sisarsʹkoï rodyny v Vidni
Tu chang
Supai
Město v horách
Ṿer iz der farbrekher?
The west parade
World's End, 1913-1919
They Call Me Carpenter A Tale Of The Second Coming
American Promise Compact 3e V2 & Reading the American Past 3e V2 & Jungle
The brass check
They call me Carpenter
The fighting squadron
O shepherds speak
Index to the Lanny Budd story
Qi che wang
Love's Pilgrimage (The Collected Works of Upton Sinclair - 51 Volumes)
Theirs be the guilt
Upton Sinclair's
Kyōdō kumiai
The cup of fury
The lie factory starts
Geld
Akiyuki Nosaka
Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015)

singer, lyricist, tarento, politician

  • Waseda University

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Theun de Vries
Theun de Vries (1907-2005)

poet, resistance fighter, politician

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Ketters
Briefwisseling
De vrouweneter
De gezegende, het leven van Spinoza in honderdzeven scènes
Die Kardinalsmotette
Eene plaats van grooten omvang
Rembrandt
Theun de Vries
Gesprekken op donderdag
Vincent und Sien
De blinde Venus
Het meisje met het rode haar
Hernomen konfrontatie met S. Vestdijk
Baron
Friesche sagen
Amazones en bojaren
Gesprekken mit S. Vestdijk, een hernonem confrontatie
77 korte gedichten
Het hoofd van Haydn
Gesprekken met S. Vestdijk
De première
De wilde vrouwen van Pella
Eros in hinderlaag
Marx, de politieke emigratie
Keuromnibus
Het zwaard, de zee en het valse hart
Het zondagsbed
Het meisje met het rode haar
De gesprenkelde vogel
Eidola
De schellenboom
Rivierlandschap in de winter
De ontsnapping
Sint-Petersburg
De vogels om het erf
Wieken tegen de tralies
Terug uit Irkoetsk
Noorderzon
Baruch de Spinoza in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Spinoza als staatkundig denker
De vrijheid gaat in 't rood gekleed
Het Friese kabinet
Sla de wolven, herder!
Doodskoppen en kaalkoppin
De meesters van de draak
Wilde lantaarns
De man met de twee levens
Februari
W.A.-man
Anna Casparii of het heimwee
Spinoza
De bergreis
M. Nijhoff
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
Stiefmoeder aarde
Het wolfsgetij of een leven van liefde
Vincent im Haag
De duivel
Het motet voor de kardinaal
De vertellingen van Wilt Tjaarda
Hernomen confrontatie met S. Vestdijk
De namen in de boom
Meester en minnaar
De dood kwam met muziek
S. Vestdijk
Louise Michel, engel in het harnas
Schlag die Wölfe, Hirte
Het wolfsgetij, of, Een leven van liefde
De vrijheid gaat in 't rood gekleed
Stiefmoeder aarde
Een spook waart door Europa
Moergrobben
Februari
Koło szczęścia
Het Friese kabinet
Het uurwerk van den eenzaamheid
Kenau
Het wolfsgetij
Verzen
Ziet
De man met de twee levens
Hernomen konfrontatie met S. Vestdijk
Anna Casparii of het heimwee
VLIEGENDE VISSEN
De merrie
Earst en lêst
Gesprekken met S. Vestdijk
Leerschool voor barbaren
Het motet voor de kardinaal
Meesters en vrienden
W.A.-man. De pook. Roest
Alles begjint by de dingen = Alles begint bij de dingen
Materie en matrijs
Het rad der fortuin
Purpurowy płaszcz wolności
Rembrandt
Hoogverraad
De namen in de boom
Noorderzon
ATLANTISCHE AVOND
מחנק