The literary 100 : a ranking of the most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all time / Daniel S. Burt.

Presents biographical information on the top 100 authors, playwrights and poets of all time including criticism of their works and portraits where available, listed in order from the most influential literary artist of all time, William Shakespeare.

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Main Author: Burt, Daniel S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Facts on File, ©2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • William Shakespeare
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Homer
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Charles Dickens
  • James Joyce
  • John Milton
  • Virgil
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • Murasaki Shikibu
  • Sophocles
  • William Faulkner
  • Feodor Dostoevsky
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Marcel Proust
  • Jane Austen
  • George Eliot
  • William Butler Yeats
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Euripides
  • John Donne
  • Herman Melville
  • John Keats
  • Ovid
  • Tu Fu
  • William Blake
  • Aeschylus
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Franz Kafka
  • Moliere
  • William Wordsworth
  • Aristophanes
  • Thomas Mann
  • Henrik Ibsen
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Henry James
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Walt Whitman
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Stendhal
  • Thomas Hardy
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • D.H. Lawrence
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Alexander Pope
  • Francois Rabelais
  • Francesco Petrarch
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Henry Fielding
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Robert Browning
  • Albert Camus
  • Charlotte Bronte
  • Emily Bronte
  • Jean Racine
  • Mark Twain
  • August Strindberg
  • Emile Zola
  • Jorge Luis Borges
  • Cao Xueqin
  • Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Voltaire
  • Laurence Sterne
  • William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Wallace Stevens
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Walter Scott
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Robert Musil
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • Catullus
  • Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Anthony Trollope
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Victor Hugo
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Daniel Defoe
  • Gunter Grass
  • Lu Xun
  • E.M. Forster
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
  • Richard Wright
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Zeami Motokiyo
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Honorable Mentions.