书名：Who Was ...？知名作家系列12本

作者：Sarah Fabiny;Who HQ等

出版社名称：Penguin US

出版时间：

语种：英语商品

尺寸：13.5 x 0.6 x 19.4 cm

包装：平装

页数：112页/册x 12册（以实物为准）

Born into wealth in 1860’s London, Beatrix Potter always had a vivid imagination. Her early interests included natural history and archaeology, and Potter delighted in sketching fossils and fungi. After briefly illustrating Christmas cards with her brother, Bertram, Potter wrote and illustrated her well-known book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The book was rejected by several publishes until Frederick Warne eventually took a risk and published the story in 1902 - a risk that paid off. Peter Rabbit was a huge success and readers loved hearing about Peter's mischevious adventures in the lush English countryside. As she got older, Beatrix Potter became a proud conservationist, working hard to defend the landscape she loved so well against industrialization and logging. Now over one hundred years old, Peter Rabbit and his animal friends have become cultural touchstones and continue to delight readers of all ages.

As a child, Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory where his gritty surroundings inspired some of the most memorable characters and settings in literary history. Known for his masterful storytelling in books like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol, Dickens toured the globe as one of the most famous people of his era. Widely considered the greatest writer of the Victorian age, Dickens’s literary masterpieces continue to amuse and inspire writers and readers alike.

Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia family who worked as tombstone merchants. In 1827 he enlisted in the Army and subsequently failed out of West Point. His first published story, The Raven, was a huge success, but his joy was overshadowed by the death of his wife. Poe devoted his life to writing and his tragic life often inspired his work. He is considered to be the inventor of detective fiction and the father of American mystery writers. His work continues to influence popular culture through films, music, literature, and television.

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WHO WAS CHARLES DICKENS?狄更斯

WHO WAS EDGAR ALLAN POE?埃德加·爱伦·坡

WHO WAS HARRIET BEECHER STOWE?哈丽叶特·比切·斯托

WHO WAS JANE AUSTEN?简·奥斯汀

WHO WAS J. R. R.TOLKIEN?托尔金

WHO WAS JULES VERNE?儒勒·凡尔纳

WHO WAS LEWIS CARROLL?刘易斯·卡罗尔

WHO WAS MAURICE SENDAK?莫里斯·桑达克

WHO WAS ROALD DAHL?罗尔德·达尔

WHO WAS MARK TWAIN?马克·吐温

WHO WAS DR. SEUSS?苏斯博士