Great world writers : twentieth century
This nicely illustrated reference for junior high and high school students offers 20-page profiles of 93 of the world's most influential writers of the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, each profile provides facts about the writer's life and works as well as a commentary on his or her significance, discussion of political and social events that occurred during his or her lifetime, a reader's guide to major works, and events, beliefs or traditions that inspired the writer's works
Biography
13 volumes (1848 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm
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v. 1: Kobo Abe
Chinua Achebe
Isabel Allende
W.H. Auden
Mariama Ba
Samuel Beckett
Jorge Luis Borges
Bertolt Brecht
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V.2: Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Alejo Carpentier
Aime Cesaire
Chou Shu-jen
J.M. Coetzee
Joseph Conrad
Tsitsi Danagarembga
Anita Desai
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V.3: Isak Dinesen
Buchi Emecheta
E.M. Forster
Carlos Fuentes
Athol Fugard
Gao Xingjian
Federico Garcia Lorca
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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V.4: William Golding
Nadine Gordimer
Robert Graves
Graham Greene
Nicolas Guillen
Imil Habibi
Vaclav Havel
Seamus Heaney
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V.5: Hermann Hesse
Aldous Huxley
Eugene Ionesco
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Ghassan Kanafani
Yasunari Kawabata
Nikos Kazantzakis
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V.6: Thomas Keneally
Jamaica Kincaid
D.H. Lawrence
Doris Lessing
C.S. Lewis
Naguib Mahfouz
Andre Malraux
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V.7: Thomas Mann
Katherine Mansfield
Yukio Mishima
Farley Mowat
Bharati Mukherjee
Haruki Murakami
Irisi Murdoch
Vladimir Nabokov
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V.8: V.S. Naipaul
R.K. Narayan
Pablo Neeruda
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Frank O'Connor
George Orwell
John Osborne
Wilfred Owen
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Amos Oz
Alan Paton
Luigi Pirandello
Erich Maria Remarque
Jean Rhys
Mordecai Richler
Rainer Maria Rilke
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V.10: Gabrielle Roy
Salman Rushdi
Jean-Paul Sartre
George Bernard Shaw
Bapsi Sidhwa
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Wole Soyinka
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V.11: Muriel Spark
John Millington Synge
Rabindranath Tagore
Kotaro Takamura
Dylan Thomas
J.R.R. Tolkien
Mario Vargas Llosa
Derik Walcott
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V.12: Evelyn Waugh
Archie Weller
H.G. Wells
Patrick White
Virginia Woolf
William Butler Yeats
A.B. Yehoshua
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V.13: Index volume
Vol. 13 is an index volume