Writers : their lives and works
2018
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From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, delve into more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers. Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers' homes, studies, and personal artefacts - along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence - this book introduces the key ideas, themes, and literary techniques of each writer, revealing the imaginations and personalities behind some of the world's greatest novels, short stories, poems, and plays.
Main title:
Writers : their lives and works / foreword by James Naughtie.
Imprint:
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2018.
Collation:
360 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780241301944 (hbk)
Dewey class:
809809 WRI
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2702899