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ISBN-10: 0-7641-6134-2
ISBN-13: 9780764161346
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Year: September 12, 2008
Size: 17.02 x 21.08 x 4.83cm
Number of pages: 640
Weight: 1,429gr
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-7641-6134-2
ISBN-13: 9780764161346
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Country:
Year: September 12, 2008
Size: 17.02 x 21.08 x 4.83cm
Number of pages: 640
Weight: 1,429gr
Binding: Hardcover
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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 Americas 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 writers literary innovations and cultural impact, supplemented with a list of the authors 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.
Entertaining and informative, this collection of brief, informal biographies spans the centuries from Sophocles in ancient Greece to Harper Lee in Americas 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 writers literary innovations and cultural impact, supplemented with a list of the authors 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.
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Great Collection of Master writers of World Literature: past and present 
For men and women in the pages of this book, »the pen was certainly mightier than the sword«.This book is a treasure of biographical sketches, list of major works, style and genre and basic information concerning history's greatest writers of world literature. The ever long list of writers are NOT arranged alphabetically but rather by date of birth, kind of like how bartlett's quotations is organized. This is a good way of seeing the evolution of world literature through the passing of the centuries as the color-coded side bars indicate s specific time frame within history. that they editors choose »501" writers does make room a whole series of talented people that make up probably the greatest collection of writers the world as ever seen. Big names such as Shakespeare, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Emerson, Hemingway, Tolkien, Poe and others are within the large assembly of the absolute best the world of literature as to offer. This is good resource for those interested in becoming writers themselves, in looking into what the greats of the past have done for future inspiration. One feature that I absolutely love about this book, is the small section on the top of each entry under the writers' name and date of birth/death,there is a «style and genre" section that describes accurately in most cases, what kind of writer he or she was or currently is with some of the much later entries and what genre that writer wrote in as well. This book is certainly interesting and will delight anyone who loves to read classical or contemporary literature.
For men and women in the pages of this book, »the pen was certainly mightier than the sword«.This book is a treasure of biographical sketches, list of major works, style and genre and basic information concerning history's greatest writers of world literature. The ever long list of writers are NOT arranged alphabetically but rather by date of birth, kind of like how bartlett's quotations is organized. This is a good way of seeing the evolution of world literature through the passing of the centuries as the color-coded side bars indicate s specific time frame within history. that they editors choose »501" writers does make room a whole series of talented people that make up probably the greatest collection of writers the world as ever seen. Big names such as Shakespeare, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Emerson, Hemingway, Tolkien, Poe and others are within the large assembly of the absolute best the world of literature as to offer. This is good resource for those interested in becoming writers themselves, in looking into what the greats of the past have done for future inspiration. One feature that I absolutely love about this book, is the small section on the top of each entry under the writers' name and date of birth/death,there is a «style and genre" section that describes accurately in most cases, what kind of writer he or she was or currently is with some of the much later entries and what genre that writer wrote in as well. This book is certainly interesting and will delight anyone who loves to read classical or contemporary literature.
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