Bronte Story: Reconsideration of Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte"

Biographies & Memoirs

LANE, MARGARET

Community & Culture

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The BRONTE STORY: A Reconsideration of Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte

Hassall, Joan

HarperCollins, Publishers

Many never-before-published photographs and pictures accent an account of the creative years during which Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated her immortal Peter Rabbit books

Magic Years of Beatrix Potter

The figure of Dr. Johnson, which for two centuries has bulked so largely in literary history and been the cause of so much comment and quotation, has received perhaps more of our esteem than of our understanding, and has seldom been seen in the round from the viewpoints taken by the general reader. Margaret Lane, distinguished both as novelist and biographer, has here given us aspects of Johnson that, described in clear and touching words, bring to life for everyone that odd, lovable, impossible, and in his own day gigantically influential character. This book without descending into details appropriate to an exhaustive study, not only provides a full account of Johnson's main traits and actions and accomplishments, but places him in the world in which he struggled to survive and which eventually he came triumphantly to dominate. Here we sense the sights and smells of Fleet Street, the noise of the coffee houses where the great verbal battles were waged, the atmospheres pervading the luxurious mansions of the great and the intolerable squalor of the slums. Surrounding the central figure we are shown such other vivid personalities as Garrick, Burke, Reynolds, Goldsmith, Lord Chesterfield, the Thrales, and that inspired note-taker, the alternately irresistible and insufferable Boswell. Lane's account of that world includes much that has hardly been touched upon by earlier biographers. This entrancing literary sketch is illustrated by a wealth of pictures - 16 in color and over 100 monochromes - including some that have never before appeared in a biography.

Samuel Johnson & his world

Harper&Row

Montana rancher Abby De Coux is transported back in time to 1875 and meets Elan, a man sent forward to the same year from 1806, and they struggle to save Abby's ranch in the future, and struggle against the passion that could endanger both their futures, apart from each other. Original.

Yesterday's Tomorrows (Harper Monogram)

Romance

Historical

Harpercollins

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography

Describes the author's life and her development as a writer of children's stories

Teen & Young Adult

Penguin??Books

Describes aspects of the fox's behavior, including how it is born, where it lives, how it finds a mate, and how it raises its young

The Fox (Picture Puffins)

Children's Books

Animals

Puffin

An exploration into the habits and behavior of beavers, including how they build dams and raise their young.

The Beaver (A Puffin Pied Piper)

Compares red and gray squirrels, and describes their habitat, their relations with people, and the birth and growth of baby squirrels, called kittens

The Squirrel (A Puffin Pied Piper)

A brief introduction to several species of spiders, discussing their physiology, reproduction, and behavior, including the female's curious propensity to eat her mate.

The Spider (Picture Puffins)

Puffin Books

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