The author of "Horrible Histories" describes the lives of the of famous writers through the ages:
Roman horror king Seneca, whose own death is as nasty as his bloodthirsty plays. Bede, the Anglo-Saxon monk who tells of bloody battles and ghastly plagues. And Charles Dickens, who shocks Victorian readers with his stories of cruel teachers and gruesome workhouses.
- ISBN10 0340667249
- ISBN13 9780340667248
- Publish Date 22 October 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 July 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Children's Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 89
- Language English