Up From Slavery-XI

  • Author: Rupa Gupta
  • Binding: Paper Back
  • Publisher: G.Ram Books Pvt. Ltd.
  • ISBN: 978-93-83510-61-0
  • Availability: In Stock
  • Edition: 2015
description

Up From Slavery, the inspirational autobiography of Booker T. Washington is part of the Optima, Unabridged English Classics brought out by G. Ram Books. This series includes selected novels prescribed by the CBSE as 'Long Reading Text' for Classes IX to XII. Up From Slavery, in its unabridged form, is one of the two books introduced by the CBSE for Class XI. It begins with Booker T. Washington's recollections of his birth in slavery, in Franklin County, Virginia, and follows his progress through his education, his establishment of the Tuskegee Institute, and his fame as a speaker. He presented the importance of good race relations to both races and succeeded in influencing the white race to his belief that Negroes could actually raise themselves up through hard work and education. First released as a serialized work in 1900 'The Outlook', a Christian newspaper of New York, Up from Slavery, is still widely read today. The Optima, Unabridged English Classics too are student-centric and go beyond the classroom. Special care has been taken in designing the book in a manner that brings the theme alive for the readers and create exercises that would help in developing the student's creativity and thinking skills. Salient Features of the Book • Original unabridged text • Brief outline of the plot in the beginning of each chapter • Meanings of difficult words and phrases in each page • A more comprehensive summary at the end of the chapter • In-text Questions to Ponder Over • End-of-chapter–Assignments based on interpretation, inference, theme, plot and understanding of incidents and characters • Character analysis of the important characters • A brief synopsis of the complete novel for better comprehension • Questions for practice—Theme, plot and character based questions • Questions with solved answers for guidance • Profusely illustrated • Important Quotes All the books in this series have been prepared strictly in accordance with the CBSE guidelines to enable students understand and appreciate some of the great enduring English Classics.




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