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Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Emminent Lives) by Edmund Morris
Category: Music | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
In "Beethoven", Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of the great composer, brings him to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was ...Show more
COLONEL ROOSEVELT by MORRIS EDMUND
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Theodore Roosevelt Ser.
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and "Theodore Rex," marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out ...Show more
Dutch - A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
Category: Biography
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer ...Show more
Edison by Edmund Morris
Category: Biography
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Edison by Edmund Morris
Category: Biography
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Eminent Lives Beethoven by Morris, Edmund
Category: Fiction | Series: Eminent Lives
Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Edmund Morris interweaves the personal history of the world's most famous composer with an insightful exploration of the way Beethoven's life was reflected and embodied in his genius and his music. Eminent Lives is an exciting and groundbreaking series that pairs great ...Show more
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Edmund Morris
Category: Classic Fiction
Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Les ...Show more
Ten Acres Enough - The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming by Edmund Morris
Category: Home and Garden
When author Edmund Morris left the Philadelphia business world in the early 1800s and bought a small farm in the New Jersey countryside, he was so pleased with the results of his venture that he decided to tell others how he accomplished it.His simply written chronicle -- one of the most popular books o ...Show more
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Category: Biography | Series: Modern Library
One of the greatest biographies of our time by Edmund Morris the author of Dutch: A memoir of Ronald Reagan.
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Modern Library Classics
The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York, to take his emergency oa ...Show more
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