Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature

Authors: Coles, Robert & Tolstoy, Leo
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: LIT012000, LIT007000, EDU042000
ISBN: 9780307431912, Related ISBNs: 0307431916, 0812971698, 9780307431912, 9780812971699
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets “render school life in all its complexity and variety.”

Featuring writings by James Agee • Julia Alvarez • Charles Baxter • Raymond Carver • John Cheever • Anton Chekhov • Erik H. Erikson • Anna Freud • Thomas Hardy • Toni Morrison • Howard Nemerov • Flannery O’Connor • Tillie Olsen • Leo Tolstoy • Tobias Wolff • Richard Yates

Ideal for educators and students of all ages, Teaching Stories will inspire anyone who loves great writing.
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