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Writers Who Changed History
Buch von James Naughtie
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
James Naughtie (Foreword by)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Reihe: DK History Changers
Inhalt: 368 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241632918
ISBN-10: 0241632919
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Naughtie, James
Hersteller: Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 288 x 243 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: James Naughtie
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2024
Gewicht: 1,89 kg
Artikel-ID: 127416031
Über den Autor
James Naughtie (Foreword by)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Reihe: DK History Changers
Inhalt: 368 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241632918
ISBN-10: 0241632919
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Naughtie, James
Hersteller: Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 288 x 243 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: James Naughtie
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2024
Gewicht: 1,89 kg
Artikel-ID: 127416031
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