Sure, we've read the novels, but what do we really know about Jane Austen herself... Who was the Irishman who stole her heart? Why was their affair doomed? Which Austen heroine most resembled Jane herself? Who were the real Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy? This title helps readers learn the answers to such questions.

Presents the history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of literature. In this one year, we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw, and who he worked with as he creates four of his most famous plays - Henry V , Julius Caesar , As You Like It , and Hamlet .

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A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover's 'must read' list.

This 1926 book argues that Shakespeare spent his formative years at Polesworth Hall in the Forest of Arden.

A comprehensive chronology of the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first section contains a detailed chronology of the major and minor events in the life of Sir Arthur and his family from 1794 to 1930.

Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. This autobiography paints a sensuously textured portrait of the childhood that produced the freedom fighter. It discusses how she moulded her own creative power into a weapon.

A sequel to A Son of the Middle Border , this work continues author's autobiographical story as he sets out for Chicago and settles into a Bohemian encampment of artists and writers. There, he meets Zulime Taft, an artist who captures his heart and eventually becomes his wife.