The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel - Parker
KORTE INHOUD
Can you remember who marries the narrator of A Dance to the Music of Time? Or what happens at the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four? Of which English classic did the author remark: 'How unexpected, how odd that people can read that difficult, grinding stuff'? Which American classic, left unfinished at its author's death, was put together by editors? Which novel did Evelyn Waugh (inaccurately) describe as 'an obscene book about domestic servants'? How many times has the Booker Prize been awarded to non-British writers? Who won the National Book Award in 1960: John Updike? Flannery O'Connor? John Barth? Harper Lee? What novels were people reading when the TLS was first published? When Madame Butterfly was first performed? When Matisse painted The Dance? When Wall Street crashed? When the Titanic sank? When Einstein formulated his General Theory of Relativity? When bobbed hair was all the rage? And which year was that? The answer to all these questions, and many more, will be found in The Reader's Companion to the Twe...
Categorie
Details
1994Uitgever: Oxford University Press900 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1857022092ISBN-13: 9781857022094Koop dit boek tweedehands
bij volgende verkopers
1 foto's
[Auteur: Parker, Peter] [Pagina's: 748] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Fourth Estate/Helicon] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: The Readers Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel]
