Writers: Their Lives and Works
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From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers. 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. Each entry explains how the person's writing developed during their lifetime, and sets it in context, conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history in which they lived. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers' homes, studies, and personal artifacts--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, Writers provides a compelling glimpse of the lives and loves of each great writer. Contents......Page 8 008 Foreword......Page 10 CHAPTER 1 Pre-19th Century......Page 12 012 Dante Alighieri......Page 14 016 Giovanni Boccaccio......Page 18 018 Geoffrey Chaucer......Page 20 022 François Rabelais......Page 24 026 Michel de Montaigne......Page 28 028 Miguel de Cervantes......Page 30 032 William Shakespeare......Page 34 038 John Donne......Page 40 040 John Milton......Page 42 042 Molière......Page 44 044 Aphra Behn......Page 46 046 Matsuo Bashō......Page 48 048 Daniel Defoe......Page 50 052 Jonathan Swift......Page 54 054 Voltaire......Page 56 056 Directory......Page 58 CHAPTER 2 Early 19th Century......Page 60 060 J. W. von Goethe......Page 62 064 William Wordsworth......Page 66 068 Jane Austen......Page 70 072 Mary Shelley......Page 74 074 Lord Byron......Page 76 076 Honoré de Balzac......Page 78 078 Victor Hugo......Page 80 082 Hans Christian Andersen......Page 84 084 Edgar Allan Poe......Page 86 086 Charles Dickens......Page 88 092 Charlotte and Emily Brontë......Page 94 098 Directory......Page 100 CHAPTER 3 Late 19th Century......Page 104 104 George Eliot......Page 106 106 Herman Melville......Page 108 108 Walt Whitman......Page 110 112 Charles Baudelaire......Page 114 116 Gustave Flaubert......Page 118 120 Fyodor Dostoyevsky......Page 122 124 Henrik Ibsen......Page 126 126 Leo Tolstoy......Page 128 130 Machado de Assis......Page 132 132 Emily Dickinson......Page 134 134 Mark Twain......Page 136 136 Thomas Hardy......Page 138 140 Emile Zola......Page 142 142 Henry James......Page 144 144 August Strindberg......Page 146 146 Guy de Maupassant......Page 148 148 Oscar Wilde......Page 150 150 Joseph Conrad......Page 152 154 Rudyard Kipling......Page 156 156 Anton Chekhov......Page 158 160 Rabindranath Tagore......Page 162 162 Directory......Page 164 CHAPTER 4 Early 20th Century......Page 168 168 W. B. Yeats......Page 170 170 Luigi Pirandello......Page 172 172 Natsume Sōseki......Page 174 174 Marcel Proust......Page 176 178 Willa Cather......Page 180 180 Thomas Mann......Page 182 182 Lu Xun......Page 184 184 James Joyce......Page 186 188 Virginia Woolf......Page 190 192 Franz Kafka......Page 194 196 Ezra Pound......Page 198 200 D. H. Lawrence......Page 202 202 Raymond Chandler......Page 204 204 T. S. Eliot......Page 206 206 Jean Rhys......Page 208 208 Marina Tsvetaeva......Page 210 210 F. Scott Fitzgerald......Page 212 214 William Faulkner......Page 216 220 Bertolt Brecht......Page 222 222 Jorge Luis Borges......Page 224 226 Ernest Hemingway......Page 228 232 Yasunari Kawabata......Page 234 234 Directory......Page 236 CHAPTER 5 Mid-20th Century......Page 240 240 Vladimir Nabokov......Page 242 242 John Steinbeck......Page 244 244 George Orwell......Page 246 248 Pablo Neruda......Page 250 252 Graham Greene......Page 254 254 Jean-Paul Sartre......Page 256 258 Samuel Beckett......Page 260 262 Naguib Mahfouz......Page 264 264 Albert Camus......Page 266 266 Aimé Césaire......Page 268 268 Dylan Thomas......Page 270 270 Marguerite Duras......Page 272 272 Saul Bellow......Page 274 274 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn......Page 276 276 Primo Levi......Page 278 280 Jack Kerouac......Page 282 282 Italo Calvino......Page 284 284 Günter Grass......Page 286 286 Gabriel García Márquez......Page 288 290 Maya Angelou......Page 292 292 Milan Kundera......Page 294 294 Chinua Achebe......Page 296 298 Directory......Page 300 CHAPTER 6 Writing Today......Page 304 304 José Saramago......Page 306 306 Derek Walcott......Page 308 308 Toni Morrison......Page 310 310 Alice Munro......Page 312 312 Nawal El Saadawi......Page 314 314 John Updike......Page 316 316 Cormac McCarthy......Page 318 318 Seamus Heaney......Page 320 322 J. M. Coetzee......Page 324 326 Isabel Allende......Page 328 328 Peter Carey......Page 330 330 Hwang Sok-yong......Page 332 332 W. G. Sebald......Page 334 336 Lorna Goodison......Page 338 338 Haruki Murakami......Page 340 340 Orhan Pamuk......Page 342 342 Mo Yan......Page 344 344 Arundhati Roy......Page 346 346 Directory......Page 348 350 Index......Page 352 359 Acknowledgments......Page 361
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