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A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland—now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to fee...
Memory into Memoir provides a lively guide for anyone looking to wrestle the unruly past onto the page.
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"Featuring explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols including: class limitations, guilt, eggs, hunger, anti-English sentiment, folktales." -- page 4 of cover.
An encyclopedia covering various aspects of health, hygiene, and physical fitness.
A Study Guide for E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.
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A comprehensive guide to more than 4400 picture books for preschool through second grade children, classified under 543 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.