Julian Patrick
Autore di 501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature
Opere di Julian Patrick
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 165
- Popolarità
- #128,476
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
- Lingue
- 4
What I liked: The book contains the authors in chronological order, so you can group them into periods and eras and whatnot. This is when they were born to when they died(obviously).
The author entries contain their most famous works along with the year they were written, allowing you to find those works.
The entries also might contain a photo or likeness of the author in question and a piece representative of their work. For instance, Miguel de Cervantes has the famous image drawn by Picasso of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
If you are looking for someone in particular the beginning of the book lists all of them in alphabetical order along with a page number.
Sometimes a quote by the author or from a work they did is included.
The book does not limit itself to just novelists; anyone that created something of note could be included. It also has playwrights and poets and essayists and journalists.
What I disliked: I mentioned this before, but the listing of 501 people just seems arbitrary.
There are people that were most certainly missed. I know this means that a lot of compromises had to be made, but still, a mention could have been made.
Some authors get four pages devoted to their lives and others might get a half of a page. I don't know the reason for that, but I assume it had something to do with what was relevant.
This book is good, but I suppose it could have been better. I don't know how, but I am certain there is a way. While we're at it, I also made a list of all the authors so that I could find them again in Goodreads or some other location. I am sure it's been done, but I needed some typing practice.… (altro)