Benét's Reader's EncyclopediaBruce Murphy For nearly 50 years, this unique single-volume encyclopedia of world literature has been hailed as the best available. Here are over 10,000 informative entries, covering everything a reader could wish to know, including biographies of poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists and belletrists from around the world and through the ages, from Aristophanes to Toni Morrison, from Chuang Tzu to Juan Rulfo; plot summaries of important literary works, ranging from Beowulf to Wuthering Heights to Things Fall Apart; sketches of principal characters from literature, from Salome to Leopold Bloom; myth, legend and folklore, covering everything from Isis to the Midgard Serpentto to the paladins; biographies of artists, musicians, philosophers and other historical personages ranging from Roman emperors to U.S. presidents who figure prominently in literature; accounts of significant schools and movements in literature, such as the Bloomsbury Group and the Beat writers; original titles, as well as the most familiar English titles, for works in languages other than English and recipients of major literary awards, including Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners. From book cover. |
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Page 361
... successful novel by Jorge AMADO that focuses on Brazil's internal problems in the 1920s through a Marxist perspective . The Brazilian provinces during this time were still dominated by a feudal system , a system by which the " colonels ...
... successful novel by Jorge AMADO that focuses on Brazil's internal problems in the 1920s through a Marxist perspective . The Brazilian provinces during this time were still dominated by a feudal system , a system by which the " colonels ...
Page 449
... successful play and served as the basis for George GERSHWIN's opera Porgy and Bess . Mamba's Daughter ( 1929 ) was another novel of Charleston black life , and it was also successfully dramatized ( 1939 ) . Heyward's other novels ...
... successful play and served as the basis for George GERSHWIN's opera Porgy and Bess . Mamba's Daughter ( 1929 ) was another novel of Charleston black life , and it was also successfully dramatized ( 1939 ) . Heyward's other novels ...
Page 470
... successful with Spanish forms , as is shown by his witty , sometimes cynical redondillas . The authorship of Lazarillo de Tormes has also been attributed to him . At his death he left all his books and manuscripts to the library of the ...
... successful with Spanish forms , as is shown by his witty , sometimes cynical redondillas . The authorship of Lazarillo de Tormes has also been attributed to him . At his death he left all his books and manuscripts to the library of the ...
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