[PDF] The 100 Most Influential People Who Never Lived eBook

Author : Kelly Knauer
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
ISBN :

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Join TIME to explore the almost-lives and almost-times of the most fascinating people who never lived. Inspired by Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, we've created a list of history's 100 most memorable characters from the worlds of literature, film, TV, video games--even advertising. Here are Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones, Wonder Woman and Rosie the Riveter, Atticus Finch and Dorothy Gale--and 94 more intriguing figures.

Author : Allan Lazar
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061738131

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From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived offers fascinating histories of our most beloved, hated, feared, and revered invented icons and the indelible marks they made on civilization, including: # 28: Rosie the Riveter, the buff, blue-collar factory worker who helped jump-start the Women's Liberation movement # 7: Siegfried, the legendary warrior-hero of Teutonic nationalism responsible for propelling Germany into two world wars # 80: Icarus, the headstrong high-flyer who inspired the Wright brothers and humankind's dreams of defying gravity . . . while demonstrating the pressing need for flight insurance # 58: Saint Valentine, the hapless, de-canonized loser who lost his heart and head at about the same time # 43: Barbie, the bodacious plastic babe who became a role model for millions of little girls, setting an impossible standard for beauty and style

Author : The Editors of TIME
Publisher : Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781618930712

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We know them better than we know our friends: brilliant Sherlock Holmes; stingy Ebenezer Scrooge; the idealistic Don Quixote; the obsessed Captain Ahab. Hamlet is indecisive and world-weary; Romeo and Juliet are young, lusty and impulsive; Indiana Jones is dashing, learned and courageous. We speak of men with Oedipus Complexes or Peter Pan Syndromes. We know women who dream of being Cinderella-or Madame Bovary. We fear Orwell's Big Brother, Bram Stoker's Count Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein's Creature. And we marvel at odd couples: Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. D'Arcy; Huckleberry Finn and Jim; Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock; Humbert Humbert and Lolita. Yet all of these unforgettable icons-who have shaped civilization and embodied our deepest archetypes-are not human: they are fictional constructs, some created by great authors, others by long processes of folklore and myth. Now TIME has enlisted a host of brilliant authors to ponder the impact of these remarkable figures. Imagine Paul Ryan saluting Ayn Rand's heroic individualist, John Galt. Think David Sedaris sizing up the Marlboro Man, Gloria Steinem dressing down the Barbie doll, and Chris Rock ripping the reign of Jim Crow. Join TIME for a brisk, enlightening exploration of the almost-lives and almost-times of the most influential characters who never drew a breath.

Author : Michael H. Hart
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806513508

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Listing of 100 people from around the world and from many different fields of endeavor, whose actions--the author has determined--have had, or will have, the greatest influence on the course of history.

Author : Allan Lazar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fictitious characters
ISBN : 9780884864851

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Profiles many fictional figures from literature, myth, film, and other sources that have shaped society, culture, and the course of history, such as Rosie the Riveter, Lady Chatterly, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Hamlet.

Author : The Editors of TIME
Publisher : Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603209977

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In this mesmerizing book, TIME chronicles the fascinating lives and revolutionary times of history's 100 Most Infl uential People. Here are royals and revolutionaries, spiritual leaders and scientists, artists and explorers, philosophers and philanthropists. Here are heroes and villains, Christ and the Buddha, Galileo and Einstein, Joan of Arc and Alexander the Great, Aristotle and Jefferson. Here are the individuals whose lives shaped the destinies of millions and changed history in its flight.

Author : Anuradha Roy
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982100524

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From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and “one of India’s greatest living authors” (O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son’s quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small‑town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British. So begins the “gracefully wrought” (Kirkus Reviews) story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who rebels against tradition to follow her artist’s instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin’s mother from India and Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar universe? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between the anguish at home and a war‑torn universe overtaken by patriotism. Evocative and moving, “this mesmerizing exploration of the darker consequences of freedom, love, and loyalty is an astonishing display of Roy’s literary prowess” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1593398468

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The 100 Most Influential Scientists is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into 100 scientists from Ancient Greece to the present day. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler.

Author : Allan Lazar
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781417807529

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Surveys the legacies of fictional heroes who shaped everyday culture, from Sherlock Holmes and James Bond to Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus.

Author : Editors of Time Magazine
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781618936806

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We know them better than we know our friends: brilliant Sherlock Holmes; stingy Ebenezer Scrooge; the idealistic Don Quixote; the obsessed Captain Ahab. Hamlet is indecisive and world-weary; Romeo and Juliet are young, lusty and impulsive; Indiana Jones is dashing, learned and courageous. We speak of men with Oedipus Complexes or Peter Pan Syndromes. We know women who dream of being Cinderella-or Madame Bovary. We fear Orwell's Big Brother, Bram Stoker's Count Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein's Creature. And we marvel at odd couples: Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. D'Arcy; Huckleberry Finn and Jim; Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock; Humbert Humbert and Lolita. Yet all of these unforgettable icons-who have shaped civilization and embodied our deepest archetypes-are not human: they are fictional constructs, some created by great authors, others by long processes of folklore and myth. Now TIME has enlisted a host of brilliant authors to ponder the impact of these remarkable figures. Imagine Paul Ryan saluting Ayn Rand's heroic individualist, John Galt. Think David Sedaris sizing up the Marlboro Man, Gloria Steinem dressing down the Barbie doll, and Chris Rock ripping the reign of Jim Crow. Join TIME for a brisk, enlightening exploration of the almost-lives and almost-times of the most influential characters who never drew a breath.