[Selections from the book: ''A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England'' (ISBN: 9780743448970)] [Selections Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Molly Underwood, Gabrielle de Cuir, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cassandra Campbell, Christopher Cazenove, Stephen Fry, Joel Grey, Elliott Gould, Gregory Hines, Arte Johnson, Melissa Manchester, Kevin McCarthy, Bronson Pinchot, Roger Rees, Jean Smart, Michael Tucker, Simon Vance, David Warner, Alfre Woodard, Michael York, Efrem Zimbalist,Jr.] Authors included are Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost and you'll never look at these literary giants the same way again. 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 leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.

A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from 'A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain, Literary ... Old England to Frost's New England'

Biographies & Memoirs

Elliot Engel

Arts & Literature

Skyboat Media and Blackstone Audio

<p>They are the icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analysed in countless classrooms, homes and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown! until now! These concise and readable biographical profiles, anecdotes and behind-the-scenes tales will reveal why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle blamed his wife's death on Sherlock Holmes, how Charles Dickens's pet launched Edgar Allan Poe on his way to literary immortality and the strange connection between Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway. Chaucer, the Brontes, Wilde, Hardy and Lawrence, you'll never look at these literary giants in the same way again.</p>

How Oscar Became Wilde : And Other Literary Lives You Never Learned About in School

Literature & Fiction

Robson Books

<p>An entertaining and enlightening lecture about Winston Churchill.</p>

The Inimitable Winston Churchill

Authors Ink

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Books by Elliot Engel