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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides a portrait of Thoreau's editor and Emerson's friend, who was also a daring war correspondent and a crusader for women's rights who had a passion for her life's work, which was eclipsed by tragedy and scandal after her death at the age of forty.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Considered to be one of America's all-time brightest authors, Mark Twain has left his mark on the literary world. Authoring such gems as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Twain's insight on the ever-evolving and expanding America gave the world a better understanding on the social issues that plagued the country. Here in his own words, Twain chronicles his life and career, offering some perspectives on how his books were created.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Before Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great writer, he was a city boy who longed for the broad, open fields and deep, still woods of the country, and then a young man who treasured books, ideas, and people. When he grew up and set out in the world, he wondered, could he build a life around these things he loved? This biography illustrates the rewards of a life well-lived, one built around personal passions: creativity and community, nature and friendship....
17) Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the nineteenth-century American author famous for his detective stories, horror stories, and poetry.
Author
Publisher
Sutherland House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sutherland House Classics is proud to bring back to print Julian Symons; The Tell-Tale Heart, an acclaimed and best-selling biography of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential authors in the English language. A highly-regarded mystery and crime writer in his own right, Symons is in a unique position to understand Poe's work and to sharply, thoroughly reveal the secrets of his life. He paints Poe as his contemporaries saw him: a man whose life...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English language, from the chilling "The Tell-Tale Heart" to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--The first modern detective story--to the iconic poem "The Raven." Poe's life...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This third and final volume crowns and completes [Twain's] work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition...
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