Literature: A Crash Course - Couverture rigide

Bell, Cory

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684858339 ISBN 13 : 9780684858333

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Providing a user-friendly, comprehensive guide to world literature past and present, this volume covers everything from the precision of the Japanese haiku to the baggy, angst ridden maunderings of the Great American Novel.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

LITERATURE - A CRASH COURSE is an exhilarating tour around the well-stocked library of world Literature with a capital L. From the pellucid precision of the Japanese haiku to the baggy, angst-ridden maunderings of the Great American Novel, here is the best and worst of human literary endeavour. Epics, lyrics, Georgics, Romantics, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Indian, hard-boiled thrillers or soft-centred pastorals - all have been exposed to the keen gaze of Cory Bell who has laboured tirelessly to give you the Works. Including all the important writers of every continent as well as every literary movement, LITERATURE - A CRASH COURSE is an invaluable guide. Read it and you will never again confuse your Rilke with your Rimbaud.

Biographie de l'auteur

Cory Bell has impeccable literary connections, being the nephew of Vanessa Bell (one of the Bloomsbury set). He writes for the TLS and is the author of numerous books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684858339
• ISBN 13: 9780684858333
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible