The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 5. Editor: Charles F. Horne
by Charles F. Horne
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
- Title
- Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
- Credits
- Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CT: History: Biography
- Subject
- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 28455
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28455
- Release Date
- March 30, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
- 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.WORKMEN AND HEROES — HERCULES By Charlotte M. Yonge — THESEUS — ULYSSES [1] By Charles F. Horne — ÆNEAS By Charlotte M. Yonge — XENOPHON [2] By Professor J. Pentland Mahaffy (445-354 b.c. ) — THE GRACCHI Extracts from "Cæsar, a Sketch," by James Anthony Froude, LL.D. (164-133, 153-121 b.c. ) — ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRA By Anna Jameson (REIGNED 267-273 a.d. ) — SIEGFRIED [3] By Karl Blind (ABOUT 450) — KING ARTHUR By Rev. S. Baring-Gould (ABOUT 520) — ROLAND (740-778) — ROLLO THE GANGER [4] By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (860-932) — LEIF ERICSON [5] By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen ( About 1000) — HAROLD, KING OF ENGLAND (1022-1066) — THE CID By Henry G. Hewlett (1026-1099) — ST. BERNARD By Henry G. Hewlett (1091-1153) — FREDERICK BARBAROSSA By Lady Lamb (1121-1190) — RICHARD CŒUR DE LION (1157-1199) — ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI [6] By George Parsons Lathrop, LL.D. (1182-1226) — ST. LOUIS By Henry G. Hewlett (1215-1270) — MARCO POLO [7] By Noah Brooks (1256-1324) — SIR WILLIAM WALLACE (1270-1305) — ROBERT BRUCE By Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D. (1274-1329) — ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED (DIED, 1386) — JOAN OF ARC [8] By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1412-1431) — HANS GUTENBERG By Alphonse de Lamartine (1400-1468) — WILLIAM CAXTON (1412-1491) — CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS [9] By A. R. Spofford, LL.D. (1436-1506) — VASCO DA GAMA [10] By Judge Albion W. Tourgée (1460-1525) — THE CHEVALIER BAYARD By Herbert Greenhough Smith (1476-1524) — GUSTAVUS VASA [11] By Charles F. Horne (1496-1560) — MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS By Samuel L. Knapp (1542-1587) — CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH [12] By Marion Harland (1579-1631) — WILLIAM HARVEY (1578-1657) — PRINCE CHARLES STUART [13] By Andrew Lang, LL.D. (1720-1788) — CAPTAIN JAMES COOK [14] By Oliver Optic (1728-1779) — JOHN HOWARD [15] By Harriet G. Walker (1726-1790) — ETHAN ALLEN [16] By Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham (1738-1789)
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