The Little Black Book: Books
Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Rocked the Literary World
Cassell Illustrated (Publisher)
Published on 15. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
800 pages
978-1-84403-588-5 (ISBN)
Description
Poets and playwrights, novels and novelists, publishing coups and personal stories, literature as we know it has been shaped by the key exponents of the craft, quirks of fate, meetings, love affairs and moments of despair and death. Characters such as Atticus Finch, Lily Bart, and Harry Potter have carried us through the century, while the discussion still rages on about the Da Vinci Code. Here is the world of literature in a nutshell, each vital and intriguing moment placed in it's historic and cultural context creating an intelligent, accessible guide to the writings of the world.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 200 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84403-588-5 (9781844035885)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Lucy Daniel is a reviewer and critic who has published widely on twentieth-century and contemporary fiction. Her essays, articles and reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Time Out, Mslexia and FT Magazine. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the cultural contexts for reading modernism, and has taught English literature at University College, London. She has also helped edit an encyclopaedia of censorship, and now works as a freelance editor. She is currently writing a monograph on Gertrude Stein.
Content
A decade-by-decade review of a the greatest books, writers, characters, passages and events that rocked the literary world, including: The Time Machine, Jude the Obscure, Zola, Sigmund Freud, Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Beatrix Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Anton Chekhov, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, The Secret Agent, The Wind in the Willows, Howards' End, Tolstoy, The Secret Garden, Encyclopaedia Britannica, August Strindberg, The Metamorphosis, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Yeats, The Waste Land, Just William, The Great Gatsby, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Hobbit, Brighton Rock, Rebecca, Virginia Woolf, The Little Prince, Dr Zhivago, Anne Frank, A Streetcar Named Desire, George Orwell, The Chronicles of Narnia, Samuel Beckett, The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Judy Blume, Germaine Greer, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Beloved, Foucault's Pendulum, Sophie's World, The Secret History, Wild Swans, Northern Lights, Harry Potter, The Shadow of the Wind, The Kite Runner, and many more.