Neil Heims

Contains a selection of criticism through the centuries on the play, plus an accessible summary, analysis of key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, and a biography of Shakespeare.

Henry IV

Presents the life of J.R.R. Tolkien, from his early academic career at Oxford to his later great success as the writer of the "The Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

J.R.R. Tolkien

During his life, Count Leo Tolstoy was the most famous of the great Russian writers in his era. Although his great novels, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, are set among the vast nation's aristocracy, Tolstoy was able to infuse the lives of his aristocratic characters with the same dreams, aspirations, and frustrations that marked the lives of many of his readers, regardless of their social class. Tolstoy's genius for creating living and breathing characters who attempt to make sense of their lives in the midst of extraordinary conditions, such as total war and doomed love affairs, was born in the turbulence of his own life. Orphaned at a young age, Tolstoy spent his life torn between competing ambitions and desires that pulled him between the extremes of self-disgust and ecstasy, familial love, and the need to reject his family and turn to a life of ascetic purity. Tolstoy's life was one long battle to find security and to escape from crippling self-loathing. This inner struggle forged his genius and compelled him to create some of the most important and memorable fiction of all time. This new biography reveals the outer and interior life of this magnificent artist for a new generation of readers. Book jacket.

The Story of Leo Tolstoy

Tortured Noble

Anne Frank's diary tells the gripping tale of her 25 months spent in hiding from the Nazis.;The Diary of Anne Frank;provides an inside view of life during the Holocaust.This is an electronic version of the original edition of t.

Reading The Diary of Anne Frank

Critically discusses the narrative technique, plot, setting, themes, and symbols in "The Diary of Anne Frank."

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