| Description |
xiii, 496 pages : frontispieces, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
ǂt Homer and Greek legend -- ǂt Sophocles and Greek drama -- ǂt Virgil and Latin poetry -- ǂt Dante and the medieval mind -- ǂt Boccaccio and the Renaissance -- ǂt Villon and medieval music -- ǂt Montaigne and the average man -- ǂt Cervantes and the spirit of mockery -- ǂt Chaucer and the English spirit -- ǂt Shakespeare, the mirror -- ǂt Voltaire, the critic -- ǂt Milton, the conscience -- ǂt Defoe, the journalist -- ǂt Goethe, the adventurer -- ǂt Byron, the yearning -- ǂt Balzac, the historian -- ǂt Victor Hugo, the romantic -- ǂt Verlaine, the musician -- ǂt Dickens, the heart -- ǂt Shelley, the voice -- ǂt Flaubert, the realist -- ǂt Whitman, the prophet -- ǂt Poe, the inventor -- ǂt Dostoievski, the analyst -- ǂt Tolstoi, the painter -- ǂt Mark Twain, the first American -- ǂt Anatole France, the skeptic -- ǂt Proust, the invalid -- ǂt George Moore, the man of letters -- ǂt Coda: a short history of the development of literature since the Victorian period. |
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Authors.
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Authors. |
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
836917758 |
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