The complete online text of Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Plutarch.

The Greek biographer, historian, essayist, and moralist Plutarch (ca. 46-ca. 120) has been described as one of the most influential writers who ever lived. Paradoxically, Plutarch the man who was the biographer of many others, had no biographer except fo...

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared Together by . . . Plutarke of Charomea: Translated out of Greeke into French by J. Amyot. . . Bishop of Auxerre . . . and out of French into Englishe, translated by Thomas North (London: T. Vautroulli...

Plutarch of Chaeronea was the author of essays, dialogues, and letters known collectively as the Moralia as well as a collection of paired biographies known as the Parallel Lives. He was a kind man, devoted to his family and friends, and active in public...

Kilimanjaro-A Regional History. Volume I: Production and Living Conditions, c. 1800-1920. By Ludger Wimmelbücker. Studien zur Afrikanischen Geschichte 29. Munster: Lit Verlag, 2003. Pp. 545; 26 illustrations, 8 tables, 10 maps, 5 documents. euro41.90. Ludger Wimmelbücker sets out to examine hunger and famine...

From chrysalis to butterfly THE JOURNALS: VOLUME I by John Fowles Cape, L30, pp. 668, ISBN 022406911X John Fowles's diaries - or 'disjoints', as he calls them - are evidence of his own theory that while some writers have a genius for a...