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Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events That Rocked the Literary World
This is a work of reference consisting of 1000 articles by various hands, covering literature from more than 60 countries from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The articles focus variously on key books, writers, passages, characters and events. As well as mainstream literarure, popular genres and children's writing are also covered.
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. This is a guide to the 1000 of the most important moments that shaped over a century of books.
