novelists, english

Provides an overview of the life and career of English author Roald Dahl.

Presents a graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth, including her creative awakening and her much speculated upon encounters with Tom Lefroy.

"Presents information about Jane Austen, from her childhood in the English countryside to how her own heartbreak became the inspiration for 'Pride and prejudice'"--OCLC.

This is the story of the groundbreaking female novelist Jane Austen, one of the most important and influential writers of all time.

Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all around the world.

Jane Austen is one of Britain's most infamous female authors with most of this fame being acquired posthumously. With six novels in her repertoire, Austen's works have been adapted for both film and television and have been critiqued by scholars and studied by students for decades. Most recently, Austen has been a source of spin-offs and commercialization, a relevant author despite more two hundred years separating her life from the present. This book features correspondence between Austen and her family as well as the musings of Austen scholars about the authors life and work.

Jane Austen is one of the most beloved novelists of all time, yet there still remains a certain mystique about the woman herself.

From the author of The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and many more beloved classics?a whimsical, witty, and revealing collection of the legendary children?s author and writer Roald Dahl's letters written to his mother, from early childhood through Dahl?s travels to Africa, his career in the Royal Air Force, his work in post-war Washington, D.C., and Hollywood, and the books that made him a literary star.

This book presents twenty-one essays on the life and writings of Charles Dickens, a nineteenth-century English novelist and social reformer.