| Author | : Martin Seymour-Smith |
| File Size | : 50,6 Mb |
| Publisher | : Unknown |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 19 May 1985 |
| ISBN | : UOM:39015066378608 |
| Pages | : 1432 pages |
Macmillan Guide to Modern World Literature by Martin Seymour-Smith Book PDF Summary
The Guide to Modern World Literature is a reference book by Martin Seymour-Smith that aims to describe every important 20th-century author (as of 1985), in all languages, in an encyclopedic presentation. The book covers an estimated 2,700 authors and more than 7,500 titles. It contains a total of 33 chapters that treat all modern national literatures individually or in groups. African and Caribbean literature is treated collectively; so are the Baltic, French and Belgian, Indian and Pakistani, Jewish, Latin American, Scandinavian, and both Eastern and Western Minor Literatures. A chapter each is given to American, Arabic, Australian, British, Bulgarian, Canadian, Chinese, Czechoslovakian, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, New Zealand, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, South African, Spanish, Turkish, and Yugoslavian Literature.