The frenzy of renown
fame & its history
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Author
Publication
1986 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
162,250 words, Guess
Page Count
649 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2547721M
- ISBN-100195040031
- OCLC Control Number505762837
- OCLC Control Number12977462
- OCLC Control Numberfrenzyofrenownfa0000brau
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number85029659
- LibraryThing357220
- Goodreads2883933
Classifications
- DDC306/.4
- LCCBJ1470.5 .B73 1986
Description
Analysizes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, P.T. Barnum, et al.
First Sentence
"What is honor?" asked Falstaff and answered "a word."
Other Editions
- The frenzy of renown
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