501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature
(Sprache: Englisch)
Entertaining and informative, this collection of brief, informal biographies spans the centuries from Sophocles in ancient Greece to Harper Lee in Americaas Deep South. Along the way, readers will enjoy pithy biographical sketches of existentialists Albert...
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Entertaining and informative, this collection of brief, informal biographies spans the centuries from Sophocles in ancient Greece to Harper Lee in Americaas Deep South. Along the way, readers will enjoy pithy biographical sketches of existentialists Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, French satirist Voltaire and Edwardian satirist Oscar Wilde, dramatists from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, poets from Dante to William Wordsworth and T.S. Eliot, and novelists who include Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and hundreds more. Each biographical entry includes an assessment of the writeras literary innovations and cultural impact, supplemented with a list of the authoras major works, fascinating quotes, and intriguing asides. This book covers a broad range of literary artists who have shaped the course of fiction, poetry, drama, and philosophical thought across a span of more than 2,500 years. Both a handy quick-reference source and an inspiration for readers to delve into the world of the literary arts, "501 Great Writers " is certain to be opened and referred to time and time again. Filled with photos and illustrations.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2008, 640 Seiten, Maße: 17 x 21,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Julian Patrick
- Verlag: BARRONS EDUC SERIES
- ISBN-10: 0764161342
- ISBN-13: 9780764161346
Sprache:
Englisch
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