Book Detail
Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Krull, Kathleen | Illustrator: Hewitt, Kathryn |
| Title: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) | Date: 1994 |
| Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co. | City: San Diego, CA |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-15-248009-9 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): nonfiction, biography and autobiography | |
HSE Descriptor(s): language arts - reading |
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Summary: |
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| Organized chronologically, the book offers short biographies of famous writers with intriguing anecdotes to encourage readers to seek the literary works. The book includes a useful index, a glossary of literary terms and a short bibliography. Each bibliographical section indicates life span, major works, and "bookmarks" of additional facts. | |
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| Teachers will find the book a useful reference to introduce or supplement the study of authors like Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Langston Hughes. These short biographies could be extended with other biographies: Diane Stanley's Dickens, Sorrow's Kitchen by Mary Lyons (Zora Neale Hurston), and Emily by Bedard (Emily Dickinson). www.hsc.usc.edu/~gallagher/hurston/hurston.html; Sandburg www.norfacod.pvt.k12.va.us/project/sandburg.htm; Austen www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.htm; Dickinson www.learner.org/catalog/literature.vvseries/vvspot; Hughes www.learner.org/catalog/literature.vvseries/vvspot; Dickens www.west.net/ncylibrary/Dickens/; Poe http://bau2.uibk.ac/sg/poe/poe.html; Shakespeare www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/; Twain www.geocities.com/Paris/Toner/6326 | |
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