Essays read by Elliot Engel; other selections read by David Birney, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner, Joe Barrett, Stefan Rudnicki, Ralph Cosham, and others. 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.
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