Celebrity Biography

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Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches, Volume 3 cover
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches, Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches is a posthumously published compilation of miscellaneous works by the nineteenth-century British historian, Whig p…
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Biographies of Notable Figures from Republican China (6-Volume Set) Chi Xinhong Qingpingguo Data Center · 2015 Biographies of Notable Figures from Republican China (6-Volume Set), compiled by Chi Xinhong and released by Qingpingguo Data Center in 2015, is an e-…
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Queen Victoria 利顿·斯特雷奇 The Commercial Press · 2014 Queen Victoria is the masterpiece of the English biographer Lytton Strachey (1880–1932). Published in London in 1921, it caused an immediate sensation…
Biography Series (4-Book Set): Take It as It Comes · The Rose in Motion · Biography of Liang Qichao · Mad and Crazy Gaddafi cover
Biography Series (4-Book Set): Take It as It Comes · The Rose in Motion · Biography of Liang Qichao · Mad and Crazy Gaddafi Meng Fei / Lüqiu Luwei / 解玺璋 / Peng Zheng 浙江文艺出版社、时代文艺出版社、上海文化出版社、凤凰出版社 This four-volume collection places four lives side by side. Meng Fei, who rose from a temporary worker in a printing factory to a nationally known hos…
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Be Your Own Hero First 大鹏 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2015 Becoming Your Own Hero is the second book by director, actor, and host Dong Chengpeng (Da Peng), following Laughing Out Loud in Difficult Times. Publi…
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Inspirational Legends of Great Figures from China and Abroad: 100-Volume Set 《阅读文库》编委会 · 2007 Inspirational Legends of Great Figures from China and Abroad: 100-Volume Set is a collection of e-books of stories about famous people aimed at young …
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Rating 4.7
Lu You's Hero Dream 李开周 Zhonghua Book Company · 2015 Lu You's Hero Dream is a volume in the first series of Zhonghua Book Company's “Great Names, Small Stories” collection, written by columnist Li Kaizho…
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Animated Empire: The Making of Walt Disney Zhang Yanling Anhui People's Publishing House · 2013 This book is a biography of Walt Disney by Zhang Yanling, part of "The Youth Financial Literacy Required Reading Series." Written in chronicle form, i…
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Rating 4.2
Making Clothes (New Edition) 山本耀司 / 宫智泉 / 吴迪 Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026 Yohji Yamamoto is a unique presence in the world of fashion. Yet in interpretations of Yamamoto, his avant-garde ideas are often magnified while the c…
A Biographical Sketch of Some of the Most Eminent Individuals Which the cover
Rating 2.2
A Biographical Sketch of Some of the Most Eminent Individuals Which the Williams, Robert, 1810-1881 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 3.8
Anna Wintour: A Biography — Crazy for Her Faith 艾米·奥德尔 / 柳晨曦 China Translation & Publishing House · 2023 She campaigned tirelessly for presidential candidates and wept over election results. Demanding the highest standards at work, she also valued talent …
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum cover
Rating 3.2
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum Benton, Joel, 1832-1911 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 3.4
The Complete Biography of Run Run Shaw 詹幼鹏 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2026 Shao Yifu entered the film world as a teenager, made his way in Southeast Asia as a young man, and became the region's "theater king." At fifty he fou…
Classic Biographies (Tesla's Autobiography + New Edition of Humanity's Starry Moments + New Edition of Marie Curie) cover
Rating 4.5
Classic Biographies (Tesla's Autobiography + New Edition of Humanity's Starry Moments + New Edition of Marie Curie) 尼古拉·特斯拉 / Stefan Zweig / 玛丽·居里 · 2024 This collection comprises three books: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, Decisive Moments in History, and The Autobiography of Marie Curie. In The Au…
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Rating 4.4
Three Biographies of Giants Romain Rolland / Fu Lei · 2022 The Three Great Masters is Romain Rolland's biography of three giants in music, art, and literature—Beethoven, Michelangelo, and Tolstoy—one of the mo…
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Rating 4.3
Youjian Library: Fu Lei's Classic Translations Romain Rolland / Honoré de Balzac · 2020 "The Classic Translations of Fu Lei include five volumes: Beethoven, Michelangelo, Tolstoy, and Père Goriot.
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Rating 3.8
Collected Evidence on Old Institutions (Collection) 朱彭寿 Nanhai Publication Company · 2023 Jiu Dian Bei Zheng, in five volumes, is the first of Zhu Pengshou's major work Shou Xin Zhai Cong Ji. It focuses on Qing-dynasty letters, the civil ex…
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Rating 2.5
Ten Gifted Scholars Zhang Li Kashgar Uyghur Publishing House · 2020 This book covers: The Son of an Engineer, In Defense of World Peace, The Birth of Nitroglycerin, The Successful Development of Dynamite, The More Powe…
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Rating 3.0
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 Malkin, Arthur Thomas Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 3.9
Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand, Volume 5 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …