Infographic Guide to Literature
Published on 6. October 2014
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-84403-787-2 (ISBN)
Description
100 stunning, ingenious and absorbing infographics all about literature, featuring your favourite books and authors!
Infographic Guide to Literature presents unique, witty and surprising facts about literature, from Shakespeare and Austen to Nabakov and Orwell, to George R. R. Martin and E. L. James. Fascinating stats and all the facts on your favourite writers, poets and playwrights, it features infamous tales from behind the scenes of the literary world.
This book celebrates the power of words with graphs, Venn diagrams and charts, this book provides a unique overview of your favourite figures in literature, boasting over 100 original artworks and illustrations and at-a-glance facts to amaze and astound readers.
Brilliant infographics include:
War Words: The conflicts and the writers who fought, wrote and perished in them across timeline and geography
100 Years of Family: The family tree of Garcia Marquez's huge novel traced
Shakespeare Eternal: Seven key plays and their rewrite in different genres, including crime, chick-lit, thriller, comedy, Adult, YA and literary
Banned Books: timeline and location of titles that have and continue to be banned in different countries
Infographic Guide to Literature presents unique, witty and surprising facts about literature, from Shakespeare and Austen to Nabakov and Orwell, to George R. R. Martin and E. L. James. Fascinating stats and all the facts on your favourite writers, poets and playwrights, it features infamous tales from behind the scenes of the literary world.
This book celebrates the power of words with graphs, Venn diagrams and charts, this book provides a unique overview of your favourite figures in literature, boasting over 100 original artworks and illustrations and at-a-glance facts to amaze and astound readers.
Brilliant infographics include:
War Words: The conflicts and the writers who fought, wrote and perished in them across timeline and geography
100 Years of Family: The family tree of Garcia Marquez's huge novel traced
Shakespeare Eternal: Seven key plays and their rewrite in different genres, including crime, chick-lit, thriller, comedy, Adult, YA and literary
Banned Books: timeline and location of titles that have and continue to be banned in different countries
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Illustrations
80+
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84403-787-2 (9781844037872)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Joanna Eliot
Infographic Guide to Literature
E-Book
10/2014
1st Edition
Cassell Illustrated
€3.99
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Person
Joanna Eliot has a BA Hons in Literature and a Masters Degree in Modernism in English Literature. She has previously worked as a bookseller, and for the last ten years as a marketing director at major publishing companies.