1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Softcover

Peter Boxall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844037401 ISBN 13: 9781844037407

Publisher: Cassell Illustrated, 2012

Synopsis

Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Boxall is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on drama and twentieth-century fiction and contributes regularly to journals such as The Yearbook of English Studies. He has recently published a Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett's drama and current projects include co-editing The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction and a monograph on contemporary fiction, Since Beckett.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844037401
• ISBN 13: 9781844037407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 960