Van Loon's lives : being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year / written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Lives: being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson ... Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944. Biography. 920 20 VAV London ; Sydney : George G. Harrap, 1945. 1945. 1945 Text 701 p., 16 p. of plates : eng