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Writers Who Changed History (Hardcover)
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Writers Who Changed History (Hardcover)
Series: DK History Changers
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List price R742
Loot Price R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
You Save R148 (20%)
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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.
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