Girls Guide to Everything by Melissa Kirsch

Girls Guide to Everything by Melissa Kirsch

Journey into the best of British Isles literati in this comprehensive and concise review of 50 of the greatest writers and poets. Learn how these distinctive individuals shaped prose from the late medieval period through the mid-twentieth century. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, this anthology takes a fresh approach to the lives and burial places of these literary greats. It includes such masters as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Wilde, Kipling, Woolf, Joyce, and many more. Featuring complete introductions to each period, there is an overview of the historical, cultural, and literary backgrounds of the era. Through engaging biographies, extensive descriptive observations, and 158 illustrations, these great writers come alive. Innovative, authoritative, and comprehensive, Literary Legends of the British Isles embodies a new perspective to the study of English literature and the authors whose works have become classics.

MELISSA KIRSCH has written for publications such as New York magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Nerve, and Good Housekeeping, and has served as an expert for publications such as Vogue, Jezebel, and Cosmopolitan. In New York City, she works as an editor.

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ISBN 13	9780761135791
ISBN 10	0761135790
Title	Girls Guide to Everything
Author	Melissa Kirsch
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Workman Publishing
Year published	2006-11-01
Number of pages	477
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