The Gallery of Portraits (Vol. 1-7) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Biographies of Mozart, Madame de Stael, Bolivar, Leonardo de Vinci, Dante, Erasmus, Titian, Martin Luther, Richelieu, Voltaire, Lorenzo de Medici…By Arthur Thomas Malkin
Length65h 28m
About this audiobook
The Gallery of Portraits (Vol. 1-7) is a substantial compendium of biographical essays accompanied by engraved likenesses, presenting statesmen, philosophers, writers, scientists, artists, and reformers as exemplary figures in the history of civilization. Its prose is lucid, measured, and instructive, combining anecdote with moral and intellectual assessment. Situated within the nineteenth-century movement for popular knowledge, the work transforms portraiture into a literary instrument: the face introduces the life, and the life becomes a lesson in public virtue, genius, and historical consequence. Arthur Thomas Malkin, a Cambridge-educated man of letters and an energetic contributor to educational publishing, was well placed to shape such a project. His associations with the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and his broad interests in history, travel, and biography inform the volumes' accessible yet cultivated tone. Malkin's editorial intelligence lies in making learning portable without diminishing its seriousness. This collection is recommended to readers interested in biography, Victorian intellectual culture, and the history of self-education. It offers not merely a sequence of famous lives, but a revealing map of the values by which an age selected, interpreted, and commemorated greatness.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length65 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 11, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Gallery of Portraits (Vol. 1-7) (Annotated)
26BANKS
2Volume 1
27Volume 2
3DANTE
28SOMERS.
4DAVY
29SMEATON.
5KOSCIUSKO
30BUFFON.
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6FLAXMAN
31MORE.
7COPERNICUS
32LAPLACE.
8MILTON
33HANDEL.
9WATT
34PASCAL.
10TURENNE
35ERASMUS.
11BOYLE
36TITIAN.
12NEWTON
37LUTHER.
13MICHAEL ANGELO
38RODNEY.
14MOLIERE
39LAGRANGE.
15FOX
40VOLTAIRE.
16BOSSUET
41RUBENS.
17LORENZO DE MEDICI.
42RICHELIEU.
18BUCHANAN
43WOLLASTON.
19FENELON
44BOCCACCIO.
20WREN
45CLAUDE.
21CORNEILLE
46NELSON.
22HALLEY
47CUVIER.
23SULLY
48RAY.
24POUSSIN
49COOK.
25HARVEY
50TURGOT.
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