Halls of Fame (My Book House, Vol. 12)
This volume gives children , through interesting stories of the lives of authors, a large view of the sweep of English and American Literature form Chaucer and the beginnings of the English language down to today. The aim has been to bring out definitely the exact character of the contribution of each author to the whole development of literature. Furthermore, this volume was designed to give a comprehensive picture of literature as a whole by including the lives of the most outstanding authors from foreign countries.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- B001I96EZ2
- Print Status
- In Print
- Biographies
- 42
- Pages
- 294
- Suggested Grades
- 5th - 12th
- Publisher
- The Book House for Children
- Copyright
- 1962
Biographies
- 1 Geoffrey Chaucer, English 1340-1400 "The Royal Page" p 11
- 2 William Shakespear, English 1564-1616, "Down by the River Avon" p 15
- 3 Edmund Spencer, English 1552-1599, "Kilcolman Castle" p 30
- 4 Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Sir Richard Steele (1671-1729) "in the Days of Queen Anne" p 32
- 5 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish 1728-1774 "Old Noll" p 36
- 6 William Wordsworth, English 1770-1850, "A Boy of the Lake Country" p 42
- 7 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English 1772-1834, "A Wizard of the Twilight" p 55
- 8 Alfred Tennyson, English 1809-1892, "The Rector's Son" p 64
- 9 John Keats, English, 1795-1821, "Sweet Peas and Grecian Urns" p 66
- 10 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English, 1792-1822, "The Rebel" p 74
- 11 George Gordon, Lord Byron, English 1788-1824, "The Boy of Newstead Abbey" p 92
- 12 Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) "A Victorian Romance" p 94
- 13 George Eliot, English 1819-1880, "The Little Girl of Griff House" p 97
- 14 Charles Dickens, English 1812-1870, "London Streets" p 102
- 15 William Makepeace Thackaray, English, 1811-1863, "Watching Vanity Fair Go By" p 104
- 16 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish, 1771-1832, "The Laird of Abbotsford" p 108
- 17 Robert Burns, Scottish, 1759-1796 "The Loughboy Poet" p 110
- 18 Washington Irving, American 1783-1859, "A Rover in the Catskills" p 113
- 19 William Cullen Bryant, American, 1794-1878, "the Father of American Song" p 116
- 20 John Greenleaf Whittier, American 1807 - 1892 "A Young Quaker of New England" p 118
- 21 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American 1804-1864, "The Lonely Boy" p 120
- 22 Louisa May Alcott, American 1833-1888, "Life in Concord" p 122
- 23 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American 1807-1882 "The Harvard Professor" p 135
- 24 Joel Chandler Harris, American 1848-1908, "Way Down South in Dixie" p 138
- 25 James Whitcomb Riley, American 1853-1916, "The Hoosier Poet" p 141
- 26 Joaquin Miller, American 1841-1913, "The Poet of the Sierras" p 143
- 27 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, American 1879-1931 "A Tramp of the Middle West" p 147
- 28 Dante Alighieri, Italian 1265-1321, "The Divine Comedy" p 154
- 29 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish 1547-1616 "A Spanish Hero" p 156
- 30 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German 1749-1832 "Faust" p 163
- 31 The Story of Faust p 168
- 32 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian 1832-1910, "Fjords and Mountain Peaks" p 187
- 33 Leo N. Tolstoy, Russian, 1828-1910, "A Boy in Russia" p 190
- 34 Hans Christian Anderson, Danish 1805-1875, "The Ugly Duckling" p 205
- 35 The Interesting History of Old Mother Goose, p 213
- 36 The Worlds Great Epics: Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer, p 221
- 37 The Worlds Great Epics "Shah-Nameh" Abul Kasim Manur p221
- 38 The Worlds Great Epics: Kalevala, Land of Heroes, p222
- 39 The Worlds Great Epics: Volsunga Saga p 223
- 40 The Worlds Great Epics: Beowulf, p 223
- 41 The Worlds Great Epics: Chanson de Geste, p 225
- 42 The Worlds Great Epics: Cid p 225
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