Book: A Dab of Dickens and A Touch of Twain by Elliot Engel
Age-range: If you're old enough to read the authors in the book you're old enough to read the book
As good as the first time?: Yes
Recommended: Yes
This book is divided into authors. One chapter for each author. It's full of the little details of their lives that people like me find fascinating. Even authors I don't care for (stupid Hemingway) are still interesting to read about.
The authors included (in order) are: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Frost.
Quite the collection, right? If you even have a passing interest in any of the above-mentioned authors READ THIS BOOK! It's fascinating, I promise.
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Pam suggested this book to me several years ago. It is a hard book to find but search it out! You can buy copies on Amazon. Don't know what to get a High School graduate - buy them this book! It is a book that will help them through college and fascinate them through life. I have read it several times since my first read and I get a kick out of it ever time!
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