Best Selling Books by Irving Stone

“A story of excruciating power.”—The New York Times The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh—brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest prostitutes, and his paintings—for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a coal mine in southern Belgium to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic, and triumphant at once. No other novel of a great man’s life has so fascinated the American public for generations.

Camille Pissarro was a brilliant, prolific painter and a father of the Impressionist movement. His struggle to be seen and survive the rejection of the art establishment is set against nineteenth-century Europe.

Details the life of Charles Darwin from his notable trip as a naturalist on the Beagle through his mature career as a widely respected but still controversial scientist.

A novel about Sigmund Freud--the complex man whose life was a tumultuous drama of courage, conflict, love, and daring, as he ripped away the shrouds of secrecy from our shames, our guilts, our sexuality, and our human potential.

Our most acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction has turned his magnificent talent to telling America''s most colorful and exciting story-the opening of the Far West. Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an unforgettable pageant of giants-men like John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners who developed Nevada''s Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies. America called for greatness ... and got it. There is nothing else in history to match the stories of these men who braved a wilderness to bring a new nation to the shores of the Pacific. Book jacket.

The 19th century archaeologist, with the help of his Greek wife, proved that Homer''s Troy, with all its fabulous treasure, really existed.

Two hundred years ago, Tennessee was the Wild West and the law was frequently determined by intimidation. Set against such a background, the story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson is one of the greatest love stories of American history.

A fictionalized account of the first lady whose life was marked with triumph and tragedy.

Takes us on a journey that allows us to encounter the citizenry, experience the milestones, and appraise the events that forged California. This title lets you experience the culture, the hardships, and the greatness of men. It shows the terrible tragedy of the Donner Party and the long-battled for successes of so many others.

Profiles of 23 presidential candidates who were defeated for the presidency of the United States, from 1824 to 1964.

A biographical novel of John Noble, Kansas born artist (1874-1934) whose career took him to France, England and New York, in his relentless search for beauty.