A collection of writings of the past 5000 years that are part of the rich cultural heritage of the Hebrew people and of the world-taken from the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the Twelve Testaments, the Confessions of Josephus, the New Testament, the Talmudic writers, Spinoza through to the modern period of Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Sholom Asch. Huntting.

""Vienna, March 26, 1827, late afternoon. Having scrawled his name to a legal document with the little strength he has left, the gravely ill and nearly deaf composer is now in a coma. A bolt of lightning splits the sky. A clap of thunder follows. Beethoven opens his eyes, raises a fist toward heaven, sinks back, and dies. So legend would have it. Or at least one of the legends. Accounts of Beethoven's death vary widely, and this one dates from more...

Contains essays on 21 alphabetically arranged themes that recur throughout American poetry . Includes interpretations of 250 poems, representing the work of 86 poets from a wide spectrum of historical, contemporary, ethnic, and canonical writers. THEMES and POEMS: ART AND BEAUTY To Helen (Edgar Allan Poe), Each and All (Ralph Waldo Emerson), The Rhodora (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Art (Herman Melville), Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare (Edna St....

Why Freedom Matters celebrates freedom in over 100 speeches, letters, essays, poems, and songs, all infused with the spirit of democracy. Here are the voices of presidents and slaves, founding fathers and hip-hop artists, suffragettes, civil rights workers, preachers, labor leaders, and baseball players. Inspired by the Declaration of Independence, the book is published in conjunction with The Declaration of Independence Road Trip, a 3 1/2-year cross-country...

Melodies with chord symbols.

An organic collection of family papers, 1799-1948, documenting the lives in Concord, Massachusetts, and elsewhere in the United States of Moses Prichard and his wife Jane Hallett Prichard, their descendants, and their relations by birth and by marriage. The collection also provides considerable insight into the life abroad of Elizabeth Prichard Hoar and her husband Edward Sherman Hoar in the late 1850s and early 1870s. Additionally, it contains...