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內容簡介 賽凡提斯、莎士比亞、珍‧奧斯丁、伍爾芙、馬奎斯、卡謬、海明威……以上哪位是你最喜歡的作家?這些作家們,都是歷史上相當重要的文豪,他們的作品都是永世不朽的經典,也代表了文學的輝煌。英國知名圖像書出版社DK將超過一百位的知名作家、詩人、劇作家的生平故事、家人、朋友間的關係整理成文章,收錄在本書中,以上所提到的作家都在名單中,並且以全彩的圖片、手稿照片、作品首刷收藏本照片等讓內文豐富度更為提升。透過這本書的介紹,讀者將可以了解在這些文豪的創作過程中,究竟被怎樣的人事物圍繞,或者創作靈感是否來自生活中,讀完本書,對於每個作者的作品就會有更上一層樓的理解。不管是一般讀者,或者剛入門的文學相關系所學生,都很適合。From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers.Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. Each entry explains how the person's writing developed during their lifetime, and sets it in context, conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history in which they lived.Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers' homes, studies, and personal artifacts--along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence--this book introduces the key ideas, themes, and literary techniques of each writer, revealing the imaginations and personalities behind some of the world's greatest novels, short stories, poems, and plays. Covering an eclectic range of authors from the Middle Ages to the present day, Writers provides a compelling glimpse of the lives and loves of each great writer."