The Literary 100 Revised Edition (The Literature 100)

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A necessary and comprehensive resource for any literary buff. Here is the revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burts fascinating assessment of the 100 most influential novelists playwrights and poets of all times and cultures now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments. From Doris Lessing and Gabriel Garca Mrquez to Homer and Marcel Proust the entries provide a compelling accessible introduction to significant writers of world literature. All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern from the broadest possible perspective what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writers career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader. New writers include: Chinua Achebe W.H. Auden Bertolt Brecht Robert Frost Nikolai Gogol Seamus Heaney Heinrich Heine Horace Ben Jonson Kalidasa Doris Lessing Li Po Christopher Marlowe Arthur Miller Chikamatsu Monzaemon Toni Morrison George Orwell Harold Pinter Luigi Pirandello Samuel Richardson Rainier Maria Rilke Sappho Edmund Spenser Tennessee Williams Kawabata Yasunari.