Heavenly Dialogue (A Collection of essays by Van Loon): A Collection of essays by Van Loon

Author: A. Bronson Alcott
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Publish Date: 1999-05-01
Features: This book authentically recreates interesting scenes of meetings with several historical figures. Among them are Confucius, Plato, Voltaire, Thomas, Jefferson, and others. The book mainly introduces spending a highly enjoyable night with Erasmus, arranging rooms for Erasmus, hosting William the Silent and General George Washington, Sir Thomas More as a guest of the old friend Erasmus, our surprise meeting with the Bach family and the Bruegel family, meeting the great masters of language, literature, and art such as Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Molière, the two bishops of Byzantium and Cyrene taking us back to a world about to be forgotten, the arrival of Descartes and Emerson making us forget the displeasure of last week, the charming women: Queen Elizabeth and Empress Theodora, and the unforgettable nightmare brought by Robespierre and Torquemada, including an apology from Buddha.