Great World Writers: Twentieth CenturyPatrick M. O'Neil Marshall Cavendish, 2004 - 1848 páginas 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. |
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Thomas Mann | 869 |
Katherine Mansfield | 891 |
Yukio Mishima | 907 |
Farley Mowat | 927 |
Haruki Murakami | 953 |
Vladimir Nabokov | 985 |
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