1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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A bold and bright reference to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. An incisive guide to the books that have had impact - whether in the form of critical acclaim or cult classic. An eclectic selection by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists. A new take on old classics and a guide to what's hot in the huge contemporary fiction market. Featuring over 600 full-colour images of book covers and frontispieces, posters and other contextual images, and presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves to read.

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People have always written stories, either to teach moral lessons, as records drawn from history, for entertainment or as very real accounts of events derived from remarkable—and Indeed not-so-remarkable—lives.The advent of the novel unfolded worlds in which the boundaries of delineation have become as varied as the pens, languages, presses, bookshops, and... Tovább

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A bold and bright reference to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. An incisive guide to the books that have had impact - whether in the form of critical acclaim or cult classic. An eclectic selection by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists. A new take on old classics and a guide to what's hot in the huge contemporary fiction market. Featuring over 600 full-colour images of book covers and frontispieces, posters and other contextual images, and presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves to read.

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People have always written stories, either to teach moral lessons, as records drawn from history, for entertainment or as very real accounts of events derived from remarkable—and Indeed not-so-remarkable—lives.The advent of the novel unfolded worlds in which the boundaries of delineation have become as varied as the pens, languages, presses, bookshops, and readers who have collectively shaped the imaginative culture of the literary world.
From Aesop's Fables to Zeno's Conscience and from Achebe to Zola, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die offers concise critical insight into the books and the writers that have fired imaginations and influenced cultures across the world. Organized chronologically, and covering the whole gamut of literary styles, this indispensable reference traces the publishing history of world fiction. From the popular drama of Louisa May Alcott to the stomach-turning cult fiction of Chuck Palahniuk, you'll find critiques of the most important and best-selling fiction ever written.
Discover the stories behind the adjectives: Dickensian, Kafkaesque, Rabelaisian and the writers behind the stories. From the dark recesses of the Marquis de Sade's jail cell to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, from The Awakening to The End of the Story, explore the greatest novels of all time.
Peter Boxall is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on twentieth-century fiction and drama. He regularly contributes essays and articles to journals such as Textual Practice and The Yearbook of English Studies, and is currently co-editor of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. He has recently published a Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett's drama, and his latest book is entitled Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction. He is currently writing a monograph on contemporary fiction, entitled Since Beckett.
Peter Ackroyd is well known for his historical fiction, which frequently draws from historical personalities. His writing has won various awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Guardian Fiction Prize, Whitbread Biography Award, Royal Society of Literature William Heinemann Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is the holder of a CBE for services to literature. He has written biographies on T. S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, William Blake and Thomas More, and is the author of the acclaimed London: The Biography. Vissza