Writers: Their Lives and Works

Author(s): DK

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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. Covering an eclectic range of authors from the Middle Ages to the present day, Writersprovides a compelling glimpse of the lives and loves of each great writer.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780241301944
  • : Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
  • : Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
  • : 1.53
  • : May 2018
  • : 2.9 X 21.9
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : DK
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : 809
  • : 360