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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review 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." From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up. Two slender volumes that present critical information about popular classic titles. Bloom's introduction is followed by a short biographical sketch of each author and then a detailed thematic and structural analysis that summarizes the novel in question, chapter by chapter. Excerpts from critical essays constitute the major

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Author
Maya Angelou
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780553279375
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
Rating
4.19 / 5 (847 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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