Writers Poets And Playwrights
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| Author | : Robert Schnakenberg |
| Publisher | : Quirk Books |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2014-03-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 159474744X |
The strange-but-true tales of the rumors, idiosyncrasies, and feuds of literary legends—including Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, and more This fascinating—and shocking!—tour through the lives of classic literature icons is the perfect stocking stuffer for book lovers and fans of little-known history. With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough questions your high school teachers were afraid to ask: What’s the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? How many women—and men—did Lord Byron actually sleep with? And why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie’s Angels? Classic literature was never this much fun in school! Authors included: William Shakespeare Lord Byron Honoré de Balzac Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens The Brontë Sisters Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Leo Tolstoy Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll Louisa May Alcott Mark Twain Oscar Wilde Arthur Conan Doyle W.B. Yeats H.G. Wells Gertrude Stein Jack London Virginia Woolf James Joyce Franz Kafka T.S. Eliot Agatha Christie J.R.R. Tolkien F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway Ayn Rand Jean-Paul Sartre Richard Wright William Burroughs Carson McCullers J.D. Salinger Jack Kerouac Kurt Vonnegut Toni Morrison Sylvia Plath Thomas Pynchon
| Author | : DK |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2018-09-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0744042755 |
Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights. From William Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, Writers explores more than 100 biographies of the world’s greatest writers. Each featured novelist, playwright, or poet is introduced by a stunning portrait, followed by photography and illustrations of locations and artifacts important in their lives – along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence. Trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and affected their writing, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. You will also uncover details each writer’s most famous pieces and understand the times and cultures they lived in – see how the world influenced them and how their works influenced the world. Writers introduces key ideas, themes, and literary techniques of each figure, revealing the imaginations and personalities behind some of the world's greatest novels, short stories, poems, and plays. A diverse variety of authors are covered, from the Middle Ages to present day, providing a compelling glimpse into the lives of the people behind the page.
| Author | : English Association |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Authors, English |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Ronald Hayman |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; it has been a classic among actors, directors, and writers for the past twenty years. Now fully updated and revised, the book devotes a chapter exclusively to screenplays, noting the intrinsic differences between a screenplay and a playscript and thus bringing this invaluable classic up to date.
| Author | : Henry Morley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2017-03-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783744714396 |
Plays and Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
| Author | : Michiko Kakutani |
| Publisher | : Peter Bedrick Books |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William McGonagall |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1979-09 |
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| Author | : Bob Hostetler |
| Publisher | : Worthy Inspired |
| Total Pages | : 666 |
| Release | : 2016-08-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1617958425 |
365 Devotions pairing Scripture from the King James Bible and lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Includes little known history, curiosities, and facts about words introduced or used in new ways by Shakespeare.
| Author | : Jack Grapes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2017-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780941017251 |
Method Writing is a powerful approach to finding your deep voice and activating the creative process. Based on a series of concepts and exercises Grapes has used in his writing workshops over the last 30-plus years, Method Writing does more than describe techniques: it takes you step-by-step through a process that will empower your writing and make it unique.
| Author | : William Jay Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781617031755 |
A close friend of Tennessee Williams during his early years as a writer gives an account of the literary great's early career, critiques his work, and reflects on the later, more successful time of Williams' life.
