Lives of the Writers
Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
San Diego : Harcourt Brace, [1994]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 96 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents:
Rice cakes and moonlight : Murasaki Shikibu -- One disaster after another : Miguel de Cervantes -- "Curst be he that moves my bones" : William Shakespeare -- Chocolate for breakfast : Jane Austen -- Ugly duckling or litte mermaid? : Hans Christian Andersen -- Imp of the perverse : Edgar Allan Poe -- From raisin pudding to oysters and champagne : Charles Dickens -- Currer and Ellis Bell : Charlotte and Emily Bronte -- Hide-and-seek : Emily Dickinson -- Paddling her own canoe : Louisa May Alcott -- Killingly funny : Mark Twain -- The fairy godmother : Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Into the mountains of the moon : Robert Louis Stevenson -- Cannibal sandwiches : Jack London -- Potato face blind man : Carl Sandburg -- On the farm : E.B. White -- She jumped at the sun : Zora Neale Hurston -- The perfect companion : Langston Hughes -- Blintzes stuffed with cheese : Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Target Audience: 1070L
ISBN:
0152480099
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Lives | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Lives | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Writers Lives | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Writers Lives | Sandhills Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 96) and index.