Writers Who Changed History

Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers’ homes, studies, and personal artifacts--along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence-- Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. Each entry explains how the person’s writing developed during their lifetime and sets it in context, conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history in which they lived. Covering an eclectic range of authors from the Middle Ages to the present day,

Product details

• Authors: DK, James Naughtie
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2023
• EAN: 9780744096958
• ISBN: 978-0-7440-9695-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 289 mm x 32 mm
• Series: DK History Changers; DK People Who Changed History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies