Van Loon's Lives
Subtitle: being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year
By: written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Publisher: George G. Harrap
Published: 1943
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
Subjects: Biography
Description: At a series of mythical dinner parties, the reader meets many of the world's great men and women from the past, and learns the story of their lives, achievements, and personal philosophies. A mingling of history and biography with fantasy.