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Laurence, Dan H. – 1976
The British Museum Library and Reading Room played a significant role in George Bernard Shaw's literary life. Having already read every book that had come his way, Shaw first gravitated toward the reading room in 1880, where he began work on his second novel and drafted most of his three remaining novels. His literary, artistic and musical…
Descriptors: Authors, Libraries, Literature, Printing
Furman, Laura, Ed.; Standard, Elinore, Ed. – 1997
The voices in this anthology, i.e., Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Anthony Trollope, E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Frederick Douglass, Emily Post, Virginia Woolf, Bernard Malamud, and many others, describe the excitement of first learning to read and remind everyone of the unique companionship offered throughout life by books. The anthology…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Intellectual Development, North American Literature
