Van Loon's Lives

Tim and I are going to read this over the summer. It looks like a fun book and I've been waiting for years to finally read it. Van Loon gives these dinner parties and invites famous people from history - usually two at a time. And then he writes about what happened. Here's the contents; the descriptions of each chapter are funny, but I only typed in the guests.

Van Loon's Lives

1. Desiderius Erasmus pg. 3
2. William the Silent and George Washington pg. 68
3. Sir Thomas More and Desiderius Erasmus pg. 128
4. Bach's and Breughels pg. 141
5. Cervantes, Shakespeare, Moliere pg. 162
6. Archbishops of Bithynia and Cyrenaica pg. 216
7. Cartes and Emerson pg. 244
8. Empress Theodora and Queen Elizabeth pg. 296
9. Robespierre and Torquemada pg. 356
10. Buddha pg. 429
11. Saint Francis, Hans Christian Andersen and Mozart pg. 431
12. Beethoven and Napoleon pg. 475
13. The Greatest Inventor of All Time pg. 525
14. Plato and Confucius pg. 532
15. Peter the Great, Charles XII of Sweden and Voltaire pg. 577
16. Dante and Leonardo da Vinci pg. 629
17. Montaigne and Rabelais pg. 671
18. Emily Dickinson and Chopin pg. 731
19. Lost Children of History and Benjamin Franklin pg. 767
20. Fridtjof Nansen, Jakob van Heemskerk, Willem Barents and Surgeon de Veer pg. 799
21. Thomas Jefferson pg. 855