Henry Ward Beecher : A Sketch of His Career

Lyman Abbott
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In the present sketch of Henry Ward Beecher, the author presents analyses of Beecher's power as a preacher, lecturer, orator and journalist, and incidents and reminiscences of his life. The characterizations and personal reminiscences are contributed ...

Conversations with Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the Engish-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. His publishers estimate that Engish-more than eight million copies of his first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) have b ...

Home and Exile

Chinua Achebe
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More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile-the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years-is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories ...

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London 1586-1592

Arthur Acheson
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Giving new light on the pre-sonnet period; showing the inception of relations between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton and displaying John Florio as Sir John Falstaff. The most interesting and important fifteen years in the records of English ...

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London : Giving New Light on the Pre-Sonnet Period (1920)

Arthur Acheson
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My Dog Tulip

J. R. Ackerley
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The distinguished writer J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he found himself in possession of a German shepherd. My Dog Tulip looks back on the sixteen years he spent with the animal he came to love. I ...

Chaucer : Ackroyd's Brief Lives

Peter Ackroyd
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In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's works.
Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a ...

Shakespeare : The Biography

Peter Ackroyd
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With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has long been recognized as today's foremost practitioner of the literary biography. His adroit style and ...

Alma Flor Ada and You : Volume 1

Alma Flor Ada
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Playing on the phrase, "the author and you"--which is a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said--this series will assist the teacher an ...

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams
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An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, this autobiography recounts Adams' own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil war, capitalist expansion, and the growth of the United ...