Charles J. Shields Knihy

Grade-specific exercises and practice tests to prepare students for various standardized tests including the California Achievement Tests, the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, the Stanford Achievement Tests, the Metropolitan Achievement Tests, and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills.

An authorized portrait of the influential twentieth-century American writer draws on first-person accounts and Vonnegut's private letters while offering insight into his youth, the inspirations for his work, and his enduring literary impact.

"Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics' Circle Award. Charles J. Shields's authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most admired playwrights examines the parts of Lorraine Hansberry's life that have escaped public knowledge: the influence of her upper-class background, her fight for peace and nuclear disarmament, the reason why she embraced Communism during the Cold War, and her dependence on her white husband-her best friend, critic, and promoter. Many of the identity issues about class, sexuality, and race that she struggled with are relevant and urgent today. This dramatic telling of a passionate life-a very American life through self-reinvention-uses previously unpublished interviews with close friends in politics and theater, privately held correspondence, and deep research to reconcile old mysteries and raise new questions about a life not fully described until now"-- Provided by publisher

Wer war der Mann, der den perfekten Roman schrieb? John Williams gilt heute als Ikone der modernen amerikanischen Literatur. Aber wer war dieser große Autor, der erst weit nach seinem Tod berühmt wurde? Wie viel hatte der Universitätsdozent aus Denver mit ›Stoner‹ gemein? Wieso hat ein feinsinniger Intellektueller wie Williams einen so abgründigen »Western« wie ›Butcher’s Crossing‹ verfasst? Was hat es mit Williams’ Bemerkung auf sich, sein einziges autobiographisches Buch sei der Roman über Kaiser ›Augustus‹? Und warum hat er sich von seinem berührenden Debüt ›Nichts als die Nacht‹ später distanziert? Charles J. Shields legt die erste Biographie über John Williams vor. Packend wie Williams’ Romane schildert Shields dessen karge Kindheit in Texas, seine Passionen, seine vier Ehen und seinen intellektuellen Weg.