5 livres semblables à Mémoires historiques
Journal
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament.
The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second…
Thèmes communs : Statesmen, Sources, Biography & Memoir, History
Vies
Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of pre-Christian Greece and Rome.
Thèmes communs : Philosophers, Sources, Biography & Memoir, History
Les Grandes Doctrines de l'histoire
Includes chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, and Nietzsche.
Thèmes communs : Philosophers, Biography & Memoir, History
Autobiographie : mes expériences de vérité
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to…
Thèmes communs : Statesmen, Biography & Memoir, History
Les Confessions
Je forme une entreprise qui n'eut jamais d'exemple, et dont l'execution n'aura point d'imitateur. Je veux montrer a mes semblables un homme dans toute la verite de la nature; et cet homme, ce sera moi. Moi seul. Je sens mon coeur, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme aucun de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent. Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins…
Thèmes communs : Philosophers, Biography & Memoir, History