Selections, including some rewritten for reading aloud, from poems, novels, and plays by Homer, Mallory, Shakespeare, Dickens, Hawthorne, Twain, and other well-known authors.
Discusses the lives and literary careers of six American women writers--Judy Blume, Pearl Buck, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, and Phillis Wheatley--and presents excerpts from their works.