Hugo Gernsback tells the story of great people

Author: [US] LanGLONG / DuanLi (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Emerson once defined great men as "those who do not allow us to think of anyone else." LanGLONG did not entirely agree with Emerson's definition, believing that if so, Hitler would also be considered a great man. He wrote these stories of great men to tell readers that none of them stood on the platform of the entire human race, "day and night building dams of reason and knowledge, struggling to hold back the rising flood of ignorance and prejudice." This book is a collection of biographical essays written by LanGLONG, totaling 19 chapters. In these chapters, the author selects representative great men from different historical periods around the world, evaluating their thoughts, desires, actions, and deeds from a humanistic perspective. Among these figures are the Eastern and Western sages and great thinkers, such as Confucius, Plato, Descartes, and Erasmus; the immortal literary masters, such as Dante, Shakespeare, Hans Christian Andersen, Cervantes, and Molière; the great masters of music and art, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Chopin; and the brilliant rulers like Peter the Great of Russia and George Washington, the founding father of the United States, and so on. In the face of these numerous great men, LanGLONG, with his unique sharp gaze, penetrates the layers of historical fog to examine their lives and deeds.