A Dab of Dickens and A Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England by Elliot Engel

A Dab of Dickens and A Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England by Elliot Engel

- GEOFREY CHAUCER - WILIAM SHAKESPEARE - JANE AUSTEN - ROBERT BROWNING & ELIZABETH BARET BROWNING - EDGAR ALAN POE - CHARLES DICKENS - CHARLOTE & EMILY BRONT - EMILY DICKINSON - MARK TWAIN - GEORGE ELIOT - THOMAS HARDY - OSCAR WILDE - SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - D. H. LAWRENCE - F. SCOT FITZGERALD - ERNEST HEMINGWAY - ROBERT FROST
They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown.until now In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a foremost authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed men and women of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain reveals dozens of fascinating anecdotes:
- Why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle blamed his wife's death on Sherlock Holmes
- How Charles Dickens' pet launched Edgar Allan Poe on his way to literary immortality
- The strange connection between Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway
- How Louisa May Alcott's attempt to get Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn banned backfired.and more
You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again.

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ISBN 13	9780743448970
ISBN 10	0743448979
Title	A Dab of Dickens and A Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England
Author	Elliot Engel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2002-10-01
Number of pages	368
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