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Theodor SEUSS Geisel (Lives and Legacies) |  | Author: Donald E. Pease
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 481791
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0195323025
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780195323023
ASIN: 0195323025
Publication Date: March 10, 2010
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Product Description
Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham,The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have sold hundreds of millions of copies and entertained children and adults for decades.
After graduating from Dartmouth, Theodor Geisel used his talents as an ad-man, political provocateur, and social satirist, gradually but irrevocably turning to children's books. Theodor SEUSS Geisel tells the unlikely story of this remarkable transformation. In this compact and engrossing biography, Donald Pease reveals the evolution of Dr. Seuss's creative persona while offering an honest appraisal of his life. The book also features many of Dr. Seuss's lesser-known illustrations, including college drawings, insecticide ads, and wartime political cartoons-all of which offer a glimpse of his early artistic style and the visual origins of the more famous creatures that later populated his children's books.
As Pease traces the full arc of Dr. Seuss's prolific career, he combines close textual readings of many of Dr. Suess's works with a unique look at their genesis to shed new light on the enduring legacy of America's favorite children's book author.
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 For literary scholars, not general public July 27, 2010
Martha Johnson (Durham, NC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although well-researched and rife with literary analysis, it was remarkably short on psychological insight into Ted Geisel's personality and personal life. I finished the book still asking what was Geisel really like and how was that reflected in his work. I was also left wanting much more detail on how he and his first wife developed ideas together, which is mentioned in passing but never illustrated, if I can use that phrase. Pease spends much time analyzing the construction of Geisel's best known books, so I imagine this would be worthwhile for literary scholars, but to a fan of Dr. Seuss's whimsy, the book is dull and lifeless.
 Dr Seuss, Man and Boy June 24, 2010
Daniel J. Matyola (Somerville, NJ USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A wonderful biography of Theodor Geisel, combined with an historical and academic analysis of his work and his effect on our society.
Very highly recommended.
The Best Seuss Bio Yet April 17, 2010
A. Nazaryan
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Highly readable, deeply informative, this is a lively take on the life of our most famous children's author. Much less academic - or heavy - than previous works on Seuss, it covers both his life and work while unraveling aspects of his life readers probably don't know much about: his relationship with his mother (who gave him the name Seuss), his rowdy days at Dartmouth, his work for the New Yorker, his first wife's suicide and, of course, how he came up with some of the most memorable characters in all of literature.
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