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Justin Kaplan

    Questo autore ha ottenuto fama principalmente come biografo, concentrandosi su figure cardine della storia e della cultura americana. Il suo profondo interesse per gli eroi e le loro eredità emerge nei suoi ritratti acuti. In qualità di redattore generale di Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, ha dimostrato una maestria nel linguaggio e nella sua risonanza storica.

    When the Astors Owned New York
    The pocket Aristotle
    The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, the two fugitives go on the run, travelling down the wide Mississippi River. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or turn his friend over to a terrible fate?

      The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • The pocket Aristotle

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      In Pocket Aristotle the author, Justin D. Kaplan brings to life selections from Aristotle. Included in this edition are the most widely read, studied, and quoted works of the great philosopher. The editor's notes give the reader a convenient and concise review of each work.

      The pocket Aristotle
    • Traces the lives of cousins William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, rivals who pursued separate ambitions, built the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and influenced social behavior before John Jacob perished aboard the Titanic.

      When the Astors Owned New York