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02288aim a2200337 a 4500 001 A4CF1D1E2E2A11E2A44D78E86AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20161106140802 007 sd 008 120430s20112002 nnn z eng d 020 $a 145513757X 020 $a 9781455137572 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Engel, Elliot, $d 1949- 245 1 $a The dab of Dickens, the touch of Twain, and the shade of Shakespeare [a sound recording] : $b selections from A dab of Dickens & a touch of Twain, literary lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England / $c Elliot Engel. 260 $a Ashland, OR : $b Blackstone Audio, Inc., $c 2011, 2002. 300 $a 6 compact discs (6.5 hrs.) Unabridged 500 $a Essays read by Elliot Engel; other selections read by David Birney, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner, Joe Barrett, Stefan Rudnicki, Ralph Cosham, and others. 500 $a 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 foremost authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed men and women of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain reveals dozens of fascinating anecdotes. You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again. - Back cover. Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer -- William Shakespeare -- Jane Austen -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Charlotte Bronte & Emily Bronte -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning -- Charles Dickens -- George Eliot -- Emily Dickinson -- Oscar Wilde -- Mark Twain -- Thomas Hardy -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- D.H. Lawrence -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ernest Hemingway -- Robert Frost. 650 0 $a Authors, English. 650 0 $a Authors, American. 700 $a Birney, David. 700 $a Brick, Scott. 700 $a Gardner, Grover. 700 $a Barrett, Joe. 700 $a Rudnicki, Stefan. 700 $a Cosham, Ralph. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417012319.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4CF1D1E2E2A11E2A44D78E86AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search