Literature Book Cover & Movie/Drama Posters & Prints 2/3
for classrooms and home schoolers, theme decor.

“Buddenbrooks” by Thomas Mann
b. 6-6-1875; Germany
d. 8-23-1955; Switzerland

From the back cover - First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicale of four generations of a North German mercantile family – a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbors in his native Lubeck. As he charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence and madness...

• Thomas Mann print

First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
b. 6-21-1948; England

Ian McEwan's first published work was First Love, Last Rites (1975), a collection of short stories; his novel “Amsterdam” won the 1998 Booker Prize; in 2007 his novel “Atonement” was made into a movie of the same name.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
b. 4-22-1899; Russia
d. 7-2-1977; Switzerland

When Lolita was first published (1955) described a love story from the view point of the unusual predilctions of the protagonist. It was immortalized by the Stanley Kubrick movie in 1962.

• Vladimir Nabokov TIME Magazine Cover

Dorothy Parker
b. 8-22-1893; Long Branch, NJ
d. 6-7-1967; NY

Dorothy Parker was an American author, screenwriter (A Star is Born) and poet known for her caustic wit and wisecracks. She was a founding member of the Algonquin Roundtable. Parker bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King Foundation.

• Photographic portrait of Dorothy Parker
• The Portable Dorothy Parker

The Bell Jar, Mini Poster
by Sylvia Plath
b. 10-27-1932; Boston
d. 2-11-1963; suicide, England

Sylvia Plath, most noted for her confessional poetry, is also known for The Bell Jar, her semi-autobiographical novel detailing her struggle with depression.

The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
b. 1-1-1919; NYC
d. 1-27-2010; Cornish, NH

J. D. Salinger is an American author best known for his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and his reclusive nature.

Black Beauty, the only novel by Anna Sewell, was intended to be read by people who work with horses but became a classic children's story teaching kindness, sympathy and respect.

• “There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.”

A Midsummers Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Oberon, the Fairy King, and Puck, fill the forest with their mischief.

• more Midsummers Night's Dream posters

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
b. 8-30-1797; London, England
d. 2-1-1851; England

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

• Mary Shelley portrait

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
b. 2-1-1918; Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 4-13-2006; Italy

The novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, has had several dramatic adaptations: a stage play in 1968, a film starring Maggie Smith in 1969, and a TV serial in 1978.

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, tragic story of George and Lennie, displaced migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression (1929-1939).

The Grapes of Wrath is a controversial masterpiece by John Steinbeck. It tells a story of America during the Great Depression through the Joads, an Oklahoma farm family leaving the Dust Bowl for California. The title comes from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

Dracula by Bram Stoker
b. 11-8-1847; Ireland
d. 4-20-1912

Irish author Bram Stoker is best known as the author of ‘Dracula’.

• Bram Stoker portrait poster
• Dracula: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical and Cultural Contexts

The Art of War, Sun Tzu

The Art of War, written more than 2,500 years ago, is regarded as “The Oldest Military Treatise in the World,” covering principles of strategy, tactics, maneuvering, communication, and supplies; the use of terrain, fire, and the seasons of the year; the classification and utilization of spies; the treatment of soldiers, including captives. The book has transcended its original purpose and now is considered as the philosophy of successful leadership in contemporary business.