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Writers : their lives and works / foreword by James Naughtie ; editors, Marek Walisiewicz, Diana Loxley, Johnny Murray, Kirsty Seymour-Ure.
Presents profiles of the world's greatest writers throughout history, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary Shelley, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Maya Angelou, and Haruki Murakami.
"A compelling celebration of more than 80 great novelists, poets, and playwrights from medieval times to the present day. [The book] explores the fascinating stories of their lives, their loves, and their works."--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 1465474773
- ISBN: 9781465474773
- Physical Description: 360 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Pre-19th century -- Early 19th century -- Late 19th century -- Early 20th century -- Mid-20th century -- Writing today. Pre-19th century. Dante Alighieri ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; François Rabelais ; Michel de Montaigne ; Miguel de Cervantes ; William Shakespeare ; John Donne ; John Milton ; Molière ; Aphra Behn ; Matsuo Bashō ; Daniel Defoe ; Jonathan Swift ; Voltaire -- Early 19th century. J.W. von Goethe ; William Wordsworth ; Jane Austen ; Mary Shelley ; Lord Byron ; Honoré de Balzac ; Victor Hugo ; Hans Christian Andersen ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Charles Dickens ; Charlotte and Emily Brontë -- Late 19th century. George Eliot ; Herman Melville ; Walt Whitman ; Charles Baudelaire ; Gustave Flaubert ; Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; Henrik Ibsen ; Leo Tolstoy ; Machado de Assis ; Emily Dickinson ; Mark Twain ; Thomas Hardy ; Emile Zola ; Henry James ; August Strindberg ; Guy de Maupassant ; Oscar Wilde ; Joseph Conrad ; Rudyard Kipling ; Anton Chekhov ; Rabindranath Tagore -- Early 20th century. W.B. Yeats ; Luigi Pirandello ; Natsume Sōseki ; Marcel Proust ; Willa Cather ; Thomas Mann ; Lu Xun ; James Joyce ; Virginia Woolf ; Franz Kafka ; Ezra Pound ; D.H. Lawrence ; Raymond Chandler ; T.S. Eliot ; Jean Rhys ; Marina Tsvetaeva ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; William Faulkner ; Bertolt Brecht ; Jorge Luis Borges ; Ernest Hemingway ; Yasunari Kawabata -- Mid-20th century. Vladimir Nabokov ; John Steinbeck ; George Orwell ; Pablo Neruda ; Graham Greene ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Samuel Beckett ; Naguib Mahfouz ; Albert Camus ; Aimé Césaire ; Dylan Thomas ; Marguerite Duras ; Saul Bellow ; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; Primo Levi ; Jack Kerouac ; Italo Calvino ; Günter Grass ; Gabriel García Márquez ; Maya Angelou ; Milan Kundera ; Chinua Achebe -- Writing today. José Saramago ; Derek Walcott ; Toni Morrison ; Alice Munro ; Nawal El Saadawi ; John Updike ; Cormac McCarthy ; Seamus Heaney ; J.M. Coetzee ; Isabel Allende ; Peter Carey ; Hwang Sok-yong ; W.G. Sebald ; Lorna Goodison ; Haruki Murakami ; Orhan Pamuk ; Mo Yan ; Arundhati Roy. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Editors: Marek Walisiewicz, Diana Loxley, Johnny Murray, Kirsty Seymour-Ure. |
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| Subject: | Authors > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Authors. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Biographies. |
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| 245 | 0 | 0. | ‡aWriters : ‡btheir lives and works / ‡cforeword by James Naughtie ; editors, Marek Walisiewicz, Diana Loxley, Johnny Murray, Kirsty Seymour-Ure. |
| 250 | . | ‡aFirst American edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York, New York : ‡bDK Publishing, ‡c2018. | |
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| 300 | . | ‡a360 pages : ‡billustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; ‡c27 cm | |
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| 500 | . | ‡aIncludes index. | |
| 520 | . | ‡aPresents profiles of the world's greatest writers throughout history, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary Shelley, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Maya Angelou, and Haruki Murakami. | |
| 520 | . | ‡a"A compelling celebration of more than 80 great novelists, poets, and playwrights from medieval times to the present day. [The book] explores the fascinating stories of their lives, their loves, and their works."--Back cover. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aPre-19th century -- Early 19th century -- Late 19th century -- Early 20th century -- Mid-20th century -- Writing today. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡gPre-19th century. ‡tDante Alighieri ; ‡tGiovanni Boccaccio ; ‡tGeoffrey Chaucer ; ‡tFrançois Rabelais ; ‡tMichel de Montaigne ; ‡tMiguel de Cervantes ; ‡tWilliam Shakespeare ; ‡tJohn Donne ; ‡tJohn Milton ; ‡tMolière ; ‡tAphra Behn ; ‡tMatsuo Bashō ; ‡tDaniel Defoe ; ‡tJonathan Swift ; ‡tVoltaire -- ‡gEarly 19th century. ‡tJ.W. von Goethe ; ‡tWilliam Wordsworth ; ‡tJane Austen ; ‡tMary Shelley ; ‡tLord Byron ; ‡tHonoré de Balzac ; ‡tVictor Hugo ; ‡tHans Christian Andersen ; ‡tEdgar Allan Poe ; ‡tCharles Dickens ; ‡tCharlotte and Emily Brontë -- ‡gLate 19th century. ‡tGeorge Eliot ; ‡tHerman Melville ; ‡tWalt Whitman ; ‡tCharles Baudelaire ; ‡tGustave Flaubert ; ‡tFyodor Dostoyevsky ; ‡tHenrik Ibsen ; ‡tLeo Tolstoy ; ‡tMachado de Assis ; ‡tEmily Dickinson ; ‡tMark Twain ; ‡tThomas Hardy ; ‡tEmile Zola ; ‡tHenry James ; ‡tAugust Strindberg ; ‡tGuy de Maupassant ; ‡tOscar Wilde ; ‡tJoseph Conrad ; ‡tRudyard Kipling ; ‡tAnton Chekhov ; ‡tRabindranath Tagore -- ‡gEarly 20th century. ‡tW.B. Yeats ; ‡tLuigi Pirandello ; ‡tNatsume Sōseki ; ‡tMarcel Proust ; ‡tWilla Cather ; ‡tThomas Mann ; ‡tLu Xun ; ‡tJames Joyce ; ‡tVirginia Woolf ; ‡tFranz Kafka ; ‡tEzra Pound ; ‡tD.H. Lawrence ; ‡tRaymond Chandler ; ‡tT.S. Eliot ; ‡tJean Rhys ; ‡tMarina Tsvetaeva ; ‡tF. Scott Fitzgerald ; ‡tWilliam Faulkner ; ‡tBertolt Brecht ; ‡tJorge Luis Borges ; ‡tErnest Hemingway ; ‡tYasunari Kawabata -- Mid-20th century. Vladimir Nabokov ; ‡tJohn Steinbeck ; ‡tGeorge Orwell ; ‡tPablo Neruda ; ‡tGraham Greene ; ‡tJean-Paul Sartre ; ‡tSamuel Beckett ; ‡tNaguib Mahfouz ; ‡tAlbert Camus ; ‡tAimé Césaire ; ‡tDylan Thomas ; ‡tMarguerite Duras ; ‡tSaul Bellow ; ‡tAleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; ‡tPrimo Levi ; ‡tJack Kerouac ; ‡tItalo Calvino ; ‡tGünter Grass ; ‡tGabriel García Márquez ; ‡tMaya Angelou ; ‡tMilan Kundera ; ‡tChinua Achebe -- ‡gWriting today. ‡tJosé Saramago ; ‡tDerek Walcott ; ‡tToni Morrison ; ‡tAlice Munro ; ‡tNawal El Saadawi ; ‡tJohn Updike ; ‡tCormac McCarthy ; ‡tSeamus Heaney ; ‡tJ.M. Coetzee ; ‡tIsabel Allende ; ‡tPeter Carey ; ‡tHwang Sok-yong ; ‡tW.G. Sebald ; ‡tLorna Goodison ; ‡tHaruki Murakami ; ‡tOrhan Pamuk ; ‡tMo Yan ; ‡tArundhati Roy. |
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