Writers: Their Lives and Works
深入了解100多位世界最伟大作家的传记
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内容简介 · · · · · ·
From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, delve into 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.
Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers’ homes, studies, and personal artefacts - 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. With a foreword introduction by James Naughtie, and 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.
从莎士比亚和简·奥斯汀到加布里埃尔·加西亚·马尔克斯和托妮·莫里森，深入了解 100 多位世界最伟大作家的传记。
传记条目以每位小说家、剧作家或诗人的精彩肖像作为开端，追溯了激励每个人并影响他们作品的友谊、爱情和竞争，揭示了他们所创造的传奇人物、情节和令人回味的场景。
本书配有大量插图，包括作家的家、书房和个人物品的照片和绘画，以及原始手稿、初版和他们的信件，介绍了每位作家的主要思想、主题和文学技巧，揭示了世界上一些最伟大的小说、短篇故事、诗歌和戏剧背后的想象力和个性。詹姆斯·诺蒂撰写了序言，涵盖了从中世纪到当今的各种作家，《作家》为读者提供了每位伟大作家的生活和爱情的引人入胜的一瞥。
作者简介 · · · · · ·
James Naughtie is an award-winning radio presenter and broadcaster, who began his career as a journalist before moving to radio presenting in 1986. For over 20 years he co-presented on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and he has chaired Radio 4’s monthly bookclub since it began in 1997. James Naughtie has chaired both the Man Booker and Samuel Johnson judging panels and written a number of books including The Rivals: The Intimate Story Of A Political Marriage; The Accidental American: Tony Blair And The Presidency; The Making Of Music; The New Elizabethans and The Madness of July.
詹姆斯·诺蒂是一位屡获殊荣的电台主持人和广播员，他以记者的身份开始了自己的职业生涯，之后于 1986 年转而从事电台主持工作。20 多年来，他一直在英国广播公司第四频道的《今日》节目中担任联合主持人，并自 1997 年第四频道每月一次的读书俱乐部成立以来一直担任主席。詹姆斯·诺蒂曾担任布克奖和塞缪尔·约翰逊奖的评审团主席，并撰写了许多书籍，包括《情敌：一段政治婚姻的私密故事》、《意外的美国人：托尼·布莱尔和总统》、《音乐的形成》、《新伊丽莎白时代》和《疯狂的七月》。
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