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Great Lives in Graphics: Jane Austen by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Jane Austen is a graphic retelling of Austen's story which gives children a colourful snapshot of her life and the world in which she grew up, whilst educating them on everything from Regency culture to the wonders of storytelling. You may already know that Jane Austen was a wri ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Leonardo Da Vinci by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
The Great Lives in Graphics series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engagin ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Mandela by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Mandela is a graphic retelling of Mandela's story which giveschildren a visual snapshot of his life and long fight for freedom, whileeducating them on everything from the history of racial segregation to theimportance of equality. You may already know that Nelson Mandela endedap ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Marie Curie by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Marie Curie is a graphic retelling of Curie's story which gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world she grew up in, while educating them on everything from how radioactivity works to the importance of self-belief. You may already know that Marie Curie was a scie ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Mozart by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Mozart is a graphic retelling of Mozart's story which gives children a colourful snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from the history of music to the Age of Enlightenment. You may already know that Mozart was a child prodigy, but ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Nikola Tesla by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Nikola Tesla is a graphic retelling of Tesla's story which gives children a colourful snapshot of his life and the world in which he grew up, whilst educating them on everything from alternating current to the power of the imagination. You may already know that Nikola Tesla was ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Shakespeare by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
The Great Lives in Graphics series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engagin ...Show more
Groucho Marx - The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more
Gustave Flaubert by Anne Green
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists, and his work continues to influence and inspire contemporary writers, artists, and musicians. Flaubert was determined from a young age to become a writer and achieved sudden fame in 1857 when his first published no ...Show more
Guy de Maupassant by Christopher Lloyd
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
The most celebrated French storyteller of the nineteenth century, Guy de Maupassant was a master of the modern short story. Offering an intriguing picture of French life, his stories derive their enduring appeal from understated artistry, extreme craftsmanship, and the universality of his characters and ...Show more
Günter Grass by Julian Preece
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
G nter Grass was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain best-sellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979, and the memoir Peeling the Onion astounded readers by revealing Grass had been drafted into the military wing of ...Show more
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) by Lara Vetter
Category: General Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A concise biography of the modernist poet and avant-garde woman. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), best known for her imagist poetry, was one of the first writers of free verse in English. For over forty years, H.D. wrote poetry about forgotten ancient goddesses and autobiographical prose about her own ...Show more