EAN: 9780241632918

WRITERS WHO CHANGED HISTORY - JAMES NAUGHTIE GE...

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories
of their lives and pioneering ideas.    Writers Who Changed History places well-known writers
in their historical and cultural context  showing you how they came to influence literature as
we know it today. This illustrated guide is ideal for those interested in literature  writing 
poems and novels or who want to broaden their general understanding of literature and writers'
lives.   Inside this book on writers  you'll find :   -An overview of the lives and works of
around 100 of the world's most important novelists  poets  and playwrights - from the Middle
Ages to the present  -Eight pages of brand-new content with 12 new entries  including Charles
Waddell Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston  -Portraits of each writer alongside photographs of
their homes and studies  original manuscripts  notebooks  letters  first editions  In this
literature guide  each writer is introduced with a realistic portrait and biographical entries
that trace the friendships  loves  and rivalries that inspired and influenced their work 
revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters  plots  and evocative settings they
created. Entries explore each individual's key ideas and working methods and set their ideas in
context  conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history in which they lived.
Writers Who Changed History provides revealing insights into what drove each individual to
develop new ways of understanding the world.

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