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61) George Orwell
Author
Publisher
Kidhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
George Orwell's 1984 had a major impact on the world when it was first released, and its themes of government surveillance, the threat of totalitarianism, and the suppression of information continue to resonate today. As readers are introduced to this novel and Orwell's other groundbreaking works of literature, including Animal Farm, they explore the many ways literature reflects the past and can help shape the future. Biographical details are presented...
63) Shakespeare
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Description
In this enthralling book, Michael Wood evokes the physical and intellectural environment in which Shakespeare lived and worked with vivid and original immediacy.
64) Shakespeare
Author
Series
Description
Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.
65) Meet A.A. Milne
Author
Description
This book is an easy-to-read biography of the English author, focusing on his creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Dark Brotherhood
As the city of London slumbers, there are those in its midst who conspire to rule the world through the darkest and most nefarious means. These seven, seated in positions of extraordinary power and influence, marshal forces from the far side to aid them in their fiendish endeavor.
Force of One
In the aftermath of a bloody séance and a terrifying supernatural contact, a courageous young doctor finds himself drawn into a malevolent...
67) Miss Potter
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
68) J.K. Rowling
Author
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2013
Description
J. K. Rowling has brought magic to millions of people. In the mid-1990s, she was a single mother struggling to publish her first novel. Today, she is a celebrity with fans around the world.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Unabridged.
Description
Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection.
Celebrated as the greatest descriptive writer of her time, Jan Morris has been dazzling readers since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved ninety-two-year-old, author of classics such as Venice and Trieste, embarks...
70) J.K. Rowling
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Examines the personal life and professional career of the author of the best-selling Harry Potter novels.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Description
The story of the tragic Brontë family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addled wastrel of a brother, wildly romantic Emily, unrequited Anne, and "poor Charlotte." Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers such as Mrs. Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by one of the Dean's daughters, Alice Liddell. The books were hugely successful and brought Carroll wide acclaim, especially for the nonsense...
74) Zorba the Greek
Series
Studio classics volume 21
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A young British writer moves to Crete to find himself by working in his father's mine, and hires the playful Zorba. He falls in love with a lovely young widow. When she responds to him the townsmen attack her.
75) Roald Dahl
Author
Publisher
Rourke
Pub. Date
1993
Description
A biography of the author of such popular books as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach.".
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Black Beauty is now recognised as the first anthropomorphic novel, and it had an extraordinary emotional impact on readers of all ages. After modest success in Britain, it was taken up by a charismatic American, George Thorndike Angell, a campaigner against animal cruelty who made it one of the bestselling novels of all time. Using newly discovered archive material, Celia Brayfield shows Anna Sewell developing the extraordinary resilience to overcome...
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