This biography of Mark Twain is part of a series of biographies of important artists, writers and other creative people. Each title looks at a person's life, including their social background and aspects of their daily life, and examines the ways in which their work reflected or shaped social and cultural changes. This volume features: panels including quotations and background information; pictures of Mark Twain's life and times; and a timeline of key events and significant works.
The Lost Summer: A Personal Memoir of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The third volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents a selection of Brown's published writings between 1801 and 1807.
She was a Mrs. Curtis, and her daughter, a frail pretty girl, who limped after her, was suffering from tuberculosis of the hip. They told me what had brought them there, to the bleak poverty of that English almshouse.
Without Shelter: The Early Career of Ellen Glasgow
1843-1853
By 1929 , the gray stucco walls of One West Main could no longer shut out the noise made by heavy traffic rumbling over the ... Francis Glasgow put an end to childhood adventures by sending Frank to the Virginia Military Institute .
... 170 , 172 Skinner , Olivia , 264 Skolsky , Sidney , 150 Slick , Grace , 137 Slovack , Dr. Leonard , 147-48 , 160 , 185 , 239 , 289 , 317 , 337 , 373 Smith , Cecil , 347 , 353 Smith , Jack Martin , 173 Smith , Larry , 116–17 Smith ...
... common pleas in behalf of a slave , Robert Lucas , who had come into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts by arriving on the United States and was being held in custody . The purser , Edward Fitzgerald , a Virginian , had enlisted his ...
East of Eden
Pamphlets on American Writers