This visual celebration of the worlds most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Writers Who Changed History places wellknown 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, youll find An overview of the lives and works of around 100 of the worlds most important novelists, poets, and playwrights from the Middle Ages to the presentEight pages of brandnew content with 12 new entries, including Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Zora Neale HurstonPortraits of each writer alongside photographs of their homes and studies, original manuscripts, notebooks, letters, first editionsIn 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 largerthanlife characters, plots, and evocative settings they created. Entries explore each individuals 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...

Binding: Hardback;368 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BGL; Weight: 2016 g; Dimensions: 288 x 242 x 29

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