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Dr. Engel has personally inscribed both books with "Best Wishes" and
his signature. |
Geoffrey Chaucer • William Shakespeare • Jane Austen • Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Edgar Allan Poe • Charles Dickens • Charlotte & Emily Brontë • Emily Dickinson • Mark Twain • George Eliot • Thomas Hardy • Oscar Wilde • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • D.H. Lawrence • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Ernest Hemingway • Robert Frost 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 (Pocket Books Trade Paperback; October 1,
2002; ISBN: 0-7434-4897-9) reveals dozens of fascinating anecdotes: * How Charles Dickens' pet launched Edgar Allan Poe on his way to literary immortality * The strange connection between Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway * How Louisa May Alcott's attempt to get Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn banned backfired. . . and more! You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again.
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Eat, Think, & Be Merry: Dr. Engel wanted this book to be a unique mixture of
three of his favorite past times—writing, reading, and eating—and
therefore combined his personal essays, famous comic prose and poetry
pieces, and recipes for literary menus. In no other book would you find
selections from Tom Sawyer and The Canterbury Tales along with recipes
for Bobby Burns’ Scottish Spread and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s New England
Breakfast! It’s the perfect gift book for anyone who is literally hungry
for great literature and great food. |
Please NOTE: Dr. Engel's Old Friends Book is Out Of Print - Not Available At This Time
