Penguin Readers I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Type

Book

Authors

Maya Angelou

ISBN 10

0582505240

ISBN 13

9780582505247

Tags

anglais, english, graded readers, lecture graduée, facile, simplifiée, level 6, niveau 6, autobiography, poet, exercises, corrigé

Series Name

Penguin Readers

Abstract

In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."

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Aides disponibles : Corrigés
Descriptif : 2 cassettes

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