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  Irving Stone: Biographical Novels

  Lust for Life

  by Irving Stone

  No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement, madness and despair. Lust for Life skilfully captures the exciting atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs with great insight the development... (more)
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  The Origin

  A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin

  by Irving Stone

  The world knows the Darwin's name, but little about the man.This book shows the reader the scientist and the person.
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  The Agony and the Ecstasy

  by Irving Stone

  The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) is a biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by American author Irving Stone. Stone lived in Italy for years visiting many of the locations in Rome and Florence, worked in marble quarries, and apprenticed himself to a marble sculptor. A primary source for the novel is Michelangelo's correspondence, all 495 letters of which Stone had translated from Italian by Charles... (more)
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  Men to Match My Mountains

  The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900

  by Irving Stone

  Stone has created an interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward drive which, in a few rousing decades, settled a continent and gave the United States dimensions of which its founders hardly dreamed.
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  Immortal Wife

  by Irving Stone

  An almost like-new hardcover, with dust jacket, a biography of Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of John Charles Fremont.
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  The President's Lady

  A Novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson

  by Irving Stone

  In this acclaimed biographical novel, Irving Stone brings to life the tender and poignant love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. "Beyond any doubt one of the great romances of all time." -- The Saturday Review of Literature
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  Those Who Love

  by Irving Stone

  For Those Who Love was a timeless love story that relates to American history. When you read this story, you will not be able to put it down. It tells you about historical events that happened in Boston during Abigail's life and how our country was formed. It was a beautiful story that a person who likes romantic novels could read, or one that a person interested in history could read.
• LOVE IS ETERNAL - A NOVEL ABOUT MARY TODD AND ABRAHAM LINCOLNIrving Stone

  

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  LOVE IS ETERNAL - A NOVEL ABOUT MARY TODD AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN

  by Irving Stone

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  Passions of the Mind

  by Irving Stone

  This master storyteller has found his greatest, most challenging subject - the complex man whose life was a tumultuous drama of courage, conflict, love, and daring, as he ripped away the shrouds of secrecy from our shames, our guilts, our sexuality, our human potential. Here is Irving Stone's enthralling and unforgettable novel about Sigmund Freud - The Passions of the Mind
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  Love Is Eternal

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  Abraham Lincoln