8.5" X 11"; 1,848 pages; full color throughout; library binding
Editor(s)
Patrick M. O'Neil
Interest/Age Group
MIDDLE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL AND UP, PUBLIC LIBRARY
No. of Volumes
13
Special Features
Over 1,600 illustrations
List Price
US$ 714.21
Discounted Price
US$ 499.95
This
biographical and literary reference set highlights the lives and works of 93 of
the world’s most influential twentieth-century writers. Whether the
subject is Ireland’s James Joyce, Great Britain’s Iris Murdoch,
Poland’s Joseph Conrad, France’s Albert Camus, Italy’s Italo
Calvino, South Africa’s Nadine Gordimer, or Japan’s Yasunari
Kawabata, the set provides an excellent introduction to its featured
authors.
Arrangement
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12 volumes of articles
arranged alphabetically by writer
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Volume indexes
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Additional index
volume
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Consistent, easy-to-follow
format for all articles:
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Profile and photograph of the
writer
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The Writer’s
Life
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The Writer’s
Work
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The Reader’s Guide to
Major Works (critical analysis of two or more works)
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Other Works
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Highlights box summarizing
writer’s life
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List of published works by
genre and year of publication
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Bibliography
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Suggested
readings
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Related
resources
Scope
A collection of signed
articles that illuminate the life and work of some of the twentieth
century’s most distinguished, non-American writers: novelists, poets,
dramatists, journalists, and essayists. Supported and thematically enriched by
carefully chosen artwork, photographs, and film stills, this reference sheds
light on modern literature and the
personal, political, and social influences that have shaped it.
Index
Volume 13 features:
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Comprehensive index of
writers
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Index of literary
works
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Index of visual
arts
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Index of visual
artists
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Index of films
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Index of literary
characters
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Index of people, places,
movements, and events
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Glossary
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Annotated guide to further
reading
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List of writers by
genre
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List of all winners of the
Nobel Prize for Literature
Complete
List of Authors Covered:
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Kobo Abe
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Andre Malraux
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Chinua Achebe
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Thomas Mann
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Isabel Allende
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Katherine
Mansfield
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W.H. Auden
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Yukio Mishima
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Mariama Bâ
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Farley Mowat
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Samuel Beckett
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Bharati
Mukherjee
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Jorge Luis
Borges
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Haruki Murakami
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Bertolt Brecht
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Iris Murdoch
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Italo Calvino
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Albert Camus
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V.S. Naipaul
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Alejo Carpentier
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R.K. Narayan
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Aimé
Césaire
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Pablo Neruda
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Shu-jen Chou
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Ngügї wa
Thiong’o
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J.M. Coetzee
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Frank
O’Connor
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Joseph Conrad
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George Orwell
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Tsitsi
Dangarembga
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John Osbourne
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Anita Desai
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Wilfred Owen
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Isak Dinesen
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Amos Oz
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Buchi Emecheta
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Alan Paton
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E.M. Forster
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Luigi Pirandello
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Carlos Fuentes
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Erich Maria
Remarque
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Athol Fugard
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Jean Rhys
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Xingjian Gao
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Mordecai Richler
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Federico García
Lorca
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Rainer Marie
Rilke
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Gabriel García
Márquez
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Gabrielle Roy
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William Golding
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Salman Rushdie
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Nadine Gordimer
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Robert Graves
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George Bernard
Shaw
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Graham Greene
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Bapsi Sidhwa
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Nicolás
Guillén
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Alexandr
Solzhenitsyn
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Imil Habibi
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Wole Soyinka
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Václav
Havel
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Muriel Spark
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Seamus Heaney
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John Millington
Synge
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Hermann Hesse
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Rabindranath
Tagore
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Aldous Huxley
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Kotaro Takamura
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Eugène
Ionesco
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Dylan Thomas
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James Joyce
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Franz Kafka
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Mario Vargas
Llosa
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Ghassan Kanafani
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Derek Walcott
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Yasunari
Kawabata
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Evelyn Waugh
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Nikos
Kazantzakis
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Archie Weller
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Thomas Kenneally
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H.G. Wells
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Patrick White
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D.H. Lawrence
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Virginia Woolf
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Doris Lessing
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William Butler
Yeats
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C.S. Lewis
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A.B. Yehoshua
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Naguib Mahfouz
Benefits
This set is a highly
readable and relevant guide to writers from all around the world for junior high
and high school students. Besides providing all the necessary basic information
about the works of the world’s great writers, it offers access to a
broader perspective on their life and times.
Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers Booklist, 2004
Great World Writers: Twentieth Century
"... accessible, appealing, and convenient to
use." American Reference
Books Annual, 2005
"Highly Recommended."
LIBRARY MEDIA
CONNECTION, October 2004
"Don’t miss the
Great World Writers: 20th
Century set, which will reach grades 7 and up with an
excellent set of critical investigations into 20th century writers....Very
Highly recommended."
CHILDREN’S
BOOKWATCH, March 2003
"This is an exemplary
resource for literary-criticism collections."
SCHOOL LIBRARY
JOURNAL, June 2004
"A must addition to every
middle and high school library."
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