18 books like Something About the Author

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Something About the Author Gale Group · 1996 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Volume 89. Shares: Illustration, Reference works, Illustrators, Literary studies: general

Children's Literature Review Gerard J. Senick · 1978 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: Illustration, Reference works, Literature - Classics, Children's literature

After the war was over Michael Foreman · 1995 · ★ 4.1 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Memoirs of Foreman as a boy during the rebuilding of Britain after World War II. Foreman recalls victory bonfires, the ongoing rationing, prefab houses, baths in tin tubs, beaches first cleared of barbed wire and mines, and describes his development as an artist. Includes watercolor illustrations and period documents and photographs. Shares: Illustrators, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Kinderleben, oder, Das Märchen ohne Ende. Friedrich Wilhelm Carové · 1834 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares: Literature - Classics, Children's literature, Literary Criticism

Regendering the school story Beverly Lyon Clark · 1996 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are excluded, although most histories of the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the gendering of school stories. When the occasional man wrote about girls schools-as Charles Lamb and… Shares: Children's literature, English, Literary Criticism

Konek-gorbunok P. P. Ershov · 1834 · ★ 4.2 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Children's poem about a young farmer who with the help of his magical horse becomes Tsar of Russia. Shares: Children's literature, Authors

The Pooh Perplex Frederick C. Crews · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modeled on the "casebooks" often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh Perplex contains twelve essays written in different critical voices, complete with… Shares: Children's literature, Literary Criticism

Murdo's War Alan Temperley · 1990 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Murdo and Hector are involved with whiskey smuggling during World War II. Their recklessness soon puts them and their country in danger. Shares: Literary, Literary Criticism

Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain · 1897 · ★ 3.5 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In this novel, Tom turns detective, trying to solve a murder. Twain plays with and celebrates the detective novel, wildly popular at the time. This novel, like the others, is told through the first-person narrative of Huck Finn. Shares: Biography & Memoir

The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus L. Frank Baum · 1902 · ★ 3.9 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging From the book:Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path… Shares: Biography & Memoir

The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe · 1927 · 918p · ≈ 30h · Challenging Poems The Gold Bug The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Rogêt Purloined Letter The Oblong Box "thou Art the Man" Pit and the Pendulum Assignation Masque of the Red Death King Pest Cask of Amontillado Black Cat Tell-tale Heart Imp of the Perverse William Wilson Mystification The Man of the Crowd Von Kempelen and His Discovery The Power of Words The Colloquy of Monos and Una The… Shares: Biography & Memoir

Vol de nuit Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1931 · ★ 3.8 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Night Flight (French title: Vol de Nuit) is the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in 1931 and became an international bestseller. The book is based on Saint-Exupéry's experiences as an airmail pilot and as a director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline, based in Argentina. The characters were also loosely based on people Saint-Exupéry knew… Shares: Biography & Memoir

Bambi Felix Salten · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Describes the life of a deer in the forest as he grows into a beautiful stag. Shares: Biography & Memoir

At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald · 1871 · ★ 4.0 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The adventures of a little boy, Diamond, named for his father's favorite horse, as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper. Shares: Biography & Memoir

The Cruise of the Dazzler Jack London · 1902 · 137p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boys adventure novel. Shares: Biography & Memoir

Gentle Annie Mary Francis Shura · 1991 · ★ 3.9 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac. Shares: Biography & Memoir

Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1908 · ★ 4.3 Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Shares: Biography & Memoir

The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald · 1872 · ★ 4.0 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Challenging There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. His palace was built upon one of the mountains, and was very grand and beautiful. The princess, whose name was Irene, was born there, but she was sent soon after her birth, because her mother was not very strong, to be brought up by country people in a large house, half castle, half… Shares: Biography & Memoir

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