Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Literature in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Literature Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in.This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Literature, with:- More than 100 ground-breaking ideas on major literary works- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understandingThe Literature Book is the perfect introduction to masterpieces from the world's greatest authors, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject, and literature students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you'll discover more than 100 articles exploring landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time.Your Literature Questions, Simply ExplainedFrom the Iliad to The Great Gatsby, embark on a fascinating, graphic-led journey through the greatest works of poetry and prose. If you thought it was difficult to learn about the fictional masterpieces of our time and the literary geniuses behind them, The Literature Book presents key information in a clear layout. From Modernism to Shakespearean, Realism to Romanticism, discover the literary movements through superb mind maps and step-by-step summaries.The Big Ideas SeriesWith millions of copies sold worldwide, The Literature Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand....

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From the Iliad to The Great Gatsby, DK's The Literature Book is a fascinating graphic-led journey through the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them. More than 100 articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time. In The Literature Book, you'll discover masterpieces from the world's greatest authors, and explore the context, creative history, and literary traditions that influenced each major work.

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Featuring plays and poetry from all over the world, including Latin American and African fiction, this book offers a deeper look into the famed fiction of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and more, as in-depth literary criticism and interesting authorial biographies give each work of literature a new meaning.

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• 1: Introduction
• 2: Heroes and legends 3000BCE 1300CE
• • 1: Only the gods dwell forever in sunlight, The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • 2: To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance, Book of Changes, attributed to King Wen of Zhou
  • 3: What is this crime I am planning, O Krishna? Mahabharata, attributed to Vyasa
  • 4: Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles, Iliad, attributed to Homer
  • 5: How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth! Oedipus the King, Sophocles
  • 6: The gates of hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way, Aeneid, Virgil
  • 7: Fate will unwind as it must, Beowulf
  • 8: So Scheherazade began One Thousand and One Nights
  • 9: Since life is but a dream, why toil to no avail? Quan Tangshi
  • 10: Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams, The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
  • 11: A man should suffer greatly for his Lord, The Song of Roland
  • 12: Tandaradei, sweetly sang the nightingale, Under the Linden Tree, Walther von der Vogelwelde
  • 13: He who dares not follow love's command errs greatly, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Chretien de Troyes
  • 14: Let another's wound be my warning, Njal's Saga
  • 15: Further reading
• 2: Renaissance to enlightenment 1300 - 1800
• • 1: I found myself within a shadowed forest, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
  • 2: We three will swear brotherhood and unity of aims and sentiments, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong
  • 3: Turn over the leef and chese another tale, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 4: Laughter's the property of man. Live joyfully, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais
  • 5: As it did to this flower, the doom of age will blight your beauty, Les Amours de Cassandre, Pierre de Ronsard
  • 6: He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall, Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
  • 7: Every man is the child of his own deeds, Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
  • 8: One man in his time plays many parts, First Folio, William Shakespeare
  • 9: To esteem everything is to esteem nothing, The Misanthrope, Moliere
  • 10: But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, Miscellaneous Poems, Andrew Marvell
  • 11: Sadly, I part from you; like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too, The Narrow Road to the Interior, Matsuo Basho
  • 12: None will hinder and none be hindered on the journey to the mountain of death, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, Chikamatsu Monzaemon
  • 13: I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good family, Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
  • 14: If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others? Candide, Voltaire
  • 15: I have courage enough to walk through hell barefoot, The Robbers, Friedrich Schiller
  • 16: There is nothing more difficult in love than expressing in writing what one does not feel, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • 17: Further reading
• 3: Romanticism and the rise of the novel 1800 - 1855
• • 1: Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 2: Nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, Nachtstucke, E T A Hoffmann
  • 3: Man errs, till he has ceased to strive, Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 4: Once upon a time Children's and Household Tales, Brothers Grimm
  • 5: For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • 6: Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  • 7: All for one, one for all, The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
  • 8: But happiness I never aimed for, it is a stranger to my soul, Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin
  • 9: Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
  • 10: You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
  • 11: I am no bird; and no net ensnares me, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • 12: I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! Wurthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  • 13: There is no folly of the beast of the Earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
  • 14: All partings foreshadow the great final one, Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • 15: Further Reading
• 4: Depicting real life 1855 1900
• • 1: Boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart, Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  • 2: I too am a child of this land; I too grew up amid this scenery, The Guarani, Jose de Alencar
  • 3: The poet is a kinsman in the clouds, Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire
  • 4: Not being heard is no reason for silence, Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
  • 5: C…