Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition
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| Author | Carol Shields |
| ISBN | 0143035169 |
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early...
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| ISBN | 0750940492 |
Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch in British history. In this concise biography, Lady Longford, long recognised as an authority on the subject, gives a full account of Queen Victoria?s life and provides her unique assessment of the monarch. Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the...
We Wove a Web in Childhood: The Brontes at Home
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| Author | Jenny Uglow |
| ISBN | 1844084981 |
Best known for her masterpieces Middlemarch and Silas Marner, George Eliot (1819–1880) was both one of the most brilliant writers of her day, and one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life which...
| Author | John Matteson |
| ISBN | 0393059642 |
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson, an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and...
| Author | Harriet Reisen |
| ISBN | 0805082999 |
A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has delighted millions of readers
Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott’s life: the effect of her father’s...
Louisa May Alcott never intended to write "Little Women." She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which turned out very differently from that of her beloved heroine Jo March....
| Author | Lucasta Miller |
| ISBN | 1400078350 |
Following the Brontë sisters through their many reincarnations at the hands of biographers, Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontës themselves. Their first biographer, Mrs Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one...
The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents
| Author | William DeGregorio |
| ISBN | 1569802866 |
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| Author | Robert D. Richardson Jr. |
| ISBN | 0520206894 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an...
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| ISBN | 1590170423 |
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| ISBN | 0974240524 |
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| ISBN | 0393314480 |
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| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0316593621 |
I don't think I'd say that Louisa May Alcott kept "copious" journals... most of what she wrote seemed succinct and to-the-point. She decribes herself as moody, but her entries are full of humor and fun. I often wished she had included a little more detail about the people she wrote about there - I wondered...
| Author | Linda Lear |
| ISBN | 0312369344 |
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Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Potter characters remain in the hearts of millions. However, though Potter is a household name around the world, few know the woman behind the illustrations. Her personal life, including a romantic...
| Author | Irene Howat |
| ISBN | 1857926498 |
Gladys Aylward ~ Mary Slessor ~ Isobel Kuhn ~ Elizabeth Fry ~ Jackie Pullinger ~ Amy Carmichael ~ Joni Eareckson Tada ~ Catherine Booth ~ Corrie Ten Boom ~ Evelyn Brand
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| Author | Daphne du Maurier |
| ISBN | 0316253650 |
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| Author | American Psychological Association |
I can't rate this book because I hate having to format my writing, especially in APA. As a result, I've developed a conflicted relationship with my lil' APA style companion. I will say it was recommended to me by my History of Books and Libraries Professor who is also the literature librarian at Yale......
| Author | E. Randall Floyd |
| ISBN | 0760766002 |
The quiet spinster who erupted one day in a blinding flash of violence, the brilliant scientist that was terrified of women wearing pearl earrings, the inexperienced pilot who took off from New York bound for Los Angeles and landed 27 hours laterin Dublin! These are just a few of the many saints, sinners,...
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
| Author | Edward P. Alexander |
In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource...
| Author | Alan Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0199732027 |
"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt thrived in crisis....
A best-selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades.
On a warm night in May 1921, thousands of whites, many deputized by the local police, swarmed through the Greenwood...
