Interesting Biographies

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Plutarch's Lives are GOAT

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>>7609403
Love and Capital

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>>7609395
this was pretty good

I learned that Lennon would tell people that the one thing in life he regretted was never getting the chance to have sex with his mom before she was killed by a truck when he was a teen

>>7609421
How is that edition? Is the translation any good?

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Any recommendations for a good biography on Ludwig Wittgenstein?

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>>7609745
Duty and Genius
>>7609510
Very good. Get both volumes. It's an old translation, but a classic.

>>7609395
Life of Alfred - Asser

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>>7609760
Thanks anon.

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Prince Metternich's Autobiography
Kantorowicz's Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite
Chateaubriand's Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

Rimbaud by Graham Robb

Does anyone read biographies of authors/philosophers/etcetera, before reading their works?

Also, do biographies of Kings/Politicians/Etcetera give a good bit of historical context before/while telling the "life story"?

FINAL BUMP

Confessions of a Mask

>>7609395
Arrow in the blue koestler

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Masters of Doom