A Study Guide for Frank McCourt's ''Angela's Ashes''

Description

Provides literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies and memoirs. Entries also include original critical essays written by academics in the field, supplemented by full or excerpted previously published essays. Provides approximately 50 illustrations, including historical maps, a chronology of important literary and world events and a glossary of key terms. Includes a comprehensive general index as well as author, theme and nationality/ethnicity indexes. Foreword : "Literature : conversation, communication, idea, emotion" / Carol Dell' Amico -- Angela's ashes (by Frank McCourt) -- Aspects of the novel (by E.M. Forster) -- Black boy (by Richard Wright) -- Darkness visible (by William Styron) -- The education of Henry Adams (by Henry Brooks Adams) -- The journalist and the murderer (by Janet Malcolm) -- Lindbergh (by A. Scott Berg) -- The making of the atomic bomb (by Richard Rhodes) -- My brother (by Jamaica Kincaid) -- Paula (by Isabel Allende) -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (by Annie Dillard) -- A preface to morals (by Walter Lippmann) -- Silent spring (by Rachel Carson) -- The souls of Black folk (by W.E.B. DuBois) -- A study of history (by Arnold J. Toynbee).