Virginia Brackett
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Chronicles the life and career of twentieth-century American author Sandra Cisneros and describes her early childhood in Chicago, growing up between two cultures, languages, and customs, and her work as an activist for Mexican-American causes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Woolf is the author of more than fifteen books, and innumerable essays and stories. She also kept a voluminous diary, an astonishing achievement for a writer crippled throughout her life by bouts of mental illness. Today she is honored not only as an innovative novelist and literary critic, indeed, one of the supreme prose writers of the twentieth century, but also as the author of the most brilliantly argued exposition of the female standpoint in...
4) Mary Shelley
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Best known as the author of the ubiquitous Gothic novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley lived an eventful, though grief-stricken life, between troubled finances, her father's disownment, and the death of multiple children. Topics discussed in this compilation include autobiographical elements and themes in her work, the influence of Frankenstein today, and her relationship with her husband, Romantic poet-philosopher Percy Bysshe...