presents
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
by Elbert Hubbard
This is a collection of biographical pieces written by Elbert Hubbard, and
published monthly starting in 1894. The pieces were collected and republished
in a 14-volume Memorial Edition in 1916, shortly after his death.
The first volume includes a memoir of the author, and the last volume includes
an index to the entire set.
Project Gutenberg has put
this work online in text and HTML formats.
Below are links to all the volumes, along with a list of contents.
- Volume 1: Good Men and Great:
Publisher's Preface --
Autobiographical --
George Eliot --
Thomas Carlyle --
John Ruskin --
William E. Gladstone --
J.M.W. Turner --
Jonathan Swift --
Walt Whitman --
Victor Hugo --
Wm. Wordsworth --
William M. Thackeray --
Charles Dickens --
Oliver Goldsmith --
William Shakespeare --
Thomas A. Edison
- Volume 2: Famous Women:
Elbert Hubbard II --
Elizabeth B. Browning --
Madame Guyon --
Harriet Martineau --
Charlotte Bronte --
Christina Rossetti --
Rosa Bonheur --
Madame de Stael --
Elizabeth Fry --
Mary Lamb --
Jane Austen --
Empress Josephine --
Mary W. Shelley
- Volume 3: American Statesmen:
The Little Journeys Camp --
George Washington --
Benjamin Franklin --
Thomas Jefferson --
Samuel Adams --
John Hancock --
John Quincy Adams --
Alexander Hamilton --
Daniel Webster --
Henry Clay --
John Jay --
William H. Seward --
Abraham Lincoln
- Volume 4: Eminent Painters:
Michelangelo --
Rembrandt --
Rubens --
Meissonier --
Titian --
Anthony van Dyck --
Fortuny --
Ary Scheffer --
Francois Millet --
Joshua Reynolds --
Landseer --
Gustave Dore
- Volume 5: English Authors:
William Morris --
Robert Browning --
Alfred Tennyson --
Robert Burns --
John Milton --
Samuel Johnson --
Thomas B. Macaulay --
Lord Byron --
Joseph Addison --
Robert Southey --
Samuel T. Coleridge --
Benjamin Disraeli
- Volume 6: Eminent Artists:
Raphael --
Leonardo --
Botticelli --
Thorwaldsen --
Gainsborough --
Velasquez --
Corot --
Correggio --
Bellini --
Cellini --
Abbey --
Whistler
- Volume 7: Eminent Orators:
Pericles --
Mark Antony --
Savonarola --
Martin Luther --
Edmund Burke --
William Pitt --
Jean Paul Marat --
Robert Ingersoll --
Patrick Henry --
Starr King --
Henry Ward Beecher --
Wendell Phillips
- Volume 8: Great Philosophers:
Socrates --
Seneca --
Aristotle --
Marcus Aurelius --
Immanuel Kant --
Swedenborg --
Spinoza --
Auguste Comte --
Voltaire --
Herbert Spencer --
Schopenhauer --
Henry D. Thoreau
- Volume 9: Great Reformers:
John Wesley --
Henry George --
Garibaldi --
Richard Cobden --
Thomas Paine --
John Knox --
John Bright --
Bradlaugh --
Theodore Parker --
Oliver Cromwell --
Anne Hutchinson --
Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Volume 10: Great Teachers:
Moses --
Confucius --
Pythagoras --
Plato --
King Alfred --
Erasmus --
Booker T. Washington --
Thomas Arnold --
Friedrich Froebel --
Hypatia --
Saint Benedict --
Mary Baker Eddy
- Volume 11: Great Businessmen:
Robert Owen --
James Oliver --
Stephen Girard --
Mayer A. Rothschild --
Philip D. Armour --
John J. Astor --
Peter Cooper --
Andrew Carnegie --
George Peabody --
A. T. Stewart --
H. H. Rogers --
James J. Hill
- Volume 12: Great Scientists:
Sir Isaac Newton --
Galileo --
Copernicus --
Humboldt --
William Herschel --
Charles Darwin --
Haeckel --
Linnaeus --
Thomas H. Huxley --
John Tyndall --
Alfred R. Wallace --
John Fiske
- Volume 13: Great Lovers:
Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne --
Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood --
William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft --
Dante and Beatrice --
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor --
Parnell and Kitty O'Shea --
Petrarch and Laura --
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal --
Balzac and Madame Hanska --
Fenelon and Madame Guyon --
Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Donniges --
Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton
- Volume 14: Great Musicians:
Richard Wagner --
Paganini --
Frederic Chopin --
Robert Schumann --
Sebastian Bach --
Felix Mendelssohn --
Franz Liszt --
Ludwig van Beethoven --
George Handel --
Giuseppe Verdi --
Wolfgang Mozart --
Johannes Brahms --
Index
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