The Literary 100

Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781438127064

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The Literature 100 by Daniel S. Burt Pdf

Here is the revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burt's fascinating assessment of the 100 most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all times and cultures now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments as well as 25 new black-and-white photographs and illustrations. From Doris Lessing and Gabriel Garc a M rquez to Homer and Marcel Proust, the entries provide a compelling, accessible introduction to significant writers of world literature. All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature, establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern, from the broadest possible perspective, what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader.

Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806519568

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The Literary 100 by Daniel S. Burt Pdf

Ranks, according to influence, history's one hundred greatest literary figures, East and West, from Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde, and discusses each writer's life, works, cultural context, and personal and artistic development. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816043825

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The Literary 100 by Daniel S. Burt Pdf

Compiled through consultation with literary scholars, provides a survey of writers who have had a profound impact on literature and the world, examining each writer's life, career, and lasting legacy.

Author : Martin Seymour-Smith
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : PSU:000049137330

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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written by Martin Seymour-Smith Pdf

The hundred books discussed here have radically altered the course of civilisation , whether they have embodied religions practised by millions, achieved the pinnacle of artistic expression, pointed the way to scientific discovery of enormous consequence, redirected beliefs about the nature of man, or forever altered the global political landscape. For each there is a historical overview, an analysis of the work's effect on our lives today and a lively discussion of the reasons for inclusion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780553447897

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Bibliophilia by Anonim Pdf

Nothing speaks to us like great literature. It presents us with truth, challenges, humor, and delight. This collection of 100 postcards showcases bold graphic interpretations of 50 of the greatest literary quotes of all time. From Virginia Wolf to Oscar Wilde, from Bront to Poe to Austen, each piece will spark your imagination and kindle your creative spirit. Cards range from an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote set against a Jazz Age champagne glass, to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights visualized as puzzle pieces, to Immanuel Kant's musings juxtaposed with a constellation-filled night sky. This is the perfect stationery for any bibliophile, and a set sure to be repurposed by many design and decor buffs for wall art.

Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816078599

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The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Burt Pdf

This revised edition includes 25 additional titles (125 total). The author uses "a self-imposed selection criteria to try to identify the novels that have exerted the strongest impact, that have changed or altered the form in significant ways, and, based on critical consensus and the test of time, that continue to deliver importance, relevance, and enjoyment years, decades, or centuries after publication."--The Preface to Revised Edition, p. ix.

Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780593234617

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The New York Times Book Review by The New York Times Pdf

A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives. Now the editors have curated the Book Review’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage and photography, this beautiful book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway, along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more. With scores of stunning vintage photographs, many of them sourced from the Times’s own archive, readers will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read today.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200952090

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816045577

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The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Burt Pdf

Rates and evaluates one hundred noteworthy novels, from the medieval Japanese "Tale of Genji" to contemporary works, and provides summaries, details about their origins, critical opinions, and an account of their impact.

Author : James Plath,Gail Sinclair,Kirk Curnutt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538103760

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The 100 Greatest Literary Characters by James Plath,Gail Sinclair,Kirk Curnutt Pdf

This book identifies 100 of the most intriguing characters from some of the most well-known novels published over several centuries, from Hester Prynne and Harry Potter to Jay Gatsby and T.S. Garp. The book profiles these memorable characters and details their significance both at the time they were created and today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590607525

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The Literary panorama by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauren Berlant,Kathleen Stewart
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478003335

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The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant,Kathleen Stewart Pdf

In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615300969

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The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

There are few tools more powerful than the written word. Writers who finely hone their craft possess the ability to spread messages, change minds, or merely create something beautiful. As shown in the pages of this volume, masterful writers through the ages have run the gamut from early dramatists and poets such as Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Shakespeare to successful modern-day novelists, including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, and J.K. Rowling.

Author : F. R. Leavis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571280803

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The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis Pdf

'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course of his argument he adds D. H. Lawrence to the pantheon, and singles out Hard Times as Dickens' one 'completely serious work of art'; while Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, and James Joyce are among those weighed in the balance and found wanting. '[Leavis] gave one a new idea of what it meant to read... the whole business of criticism acquired a new and exhilarating quality.' Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

Author : John Nichols,John Bowyer Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : OXFORD:300149930

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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century by John Nichols,John Bowyer Nichols Pdf