Anna Temkin

The Times Great Lives


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      GREAT LIVES

      GREAT LIVES

      a century in obituaries

      

      

      

      

      Edited by Anna Temkin

      

      

      

      

      

      Times Books

      Published by Times Books

      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

      Westerhill Road

      Bishopbriggs

      Glasgow G64 2QT

      www.harpercollins.co.uk

      

      

      Ebook first edition 2015

      

      

      © Times Newspapers Ltd 2015

      www.thetimes.co.uk

      

      

      Ebook Edition © September 2015 ISBN: 978-0-00-816480-5, version 2015-08-18

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       Title

       Copyright

       Introduction

       Abridged Introduction

       Contents

       Lord Kitchener

       V. I. Lenin

       Giacomo Puccini

       Claude Monet

       Emmeline Pankhurst

       D. H. Lawrence

       Dame Nellie Melba

       Sir Edward Elgar

       Marie Curie

       Sigmund Freud

       Amy Johnson

       Virginia Woolf

       David Lloyd George

       President Franklin D. Roosevelt

       Adolf Hitler

       General G. S. Patton

       John Maynard Keynes

       Henry Ford

       Mahatma Gandhi

       George Orwell

       Ludwig Wittgenstein

       Arnold Schoenberg

       Joseph Stalin

       Alan Turing

       Henri Matisse

       Sir Alexander Fleming

       Albert Einstein

       Humphrey Bogart

       Arturo Toscanini

       Christian Dior

       Dorothy L. Sayers

       Frank Lloyd Wright

       Aneurin Bevan