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Chaucer ( Brief Lives - Volume 1 ) by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Brief Lives S.
Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant, who was indicted for rap ...Show more
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Brief Lives | Reading Level: very good
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: "I was in the prime of age for invention." Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, ...Show more
Turner by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Brief Lives | Reading Level: very good
James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane (the family moving at some point from the south side of the street to the north side). He was short and pugna ...Show more
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