AIDS: What Every Student Needs to Know
- ISBN-10
- 0155017004
- ISBN-13
- 9780155017009
- Series
- AIDS
- Category
- AIDS (Disease)
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Professional Pub
- Authors
- Spencer A. Rathus, Susan Boughn
Description
A definitive history of this fascinating literary family written by a Bronte scholar and former curator and librarian at the Bronte Parsonage Museum. Barker's hefty opus integrates newly-discovered manuscripts and letters from every member of the family as well as fine photographs and reproductions of manuscripts and drawings. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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