The Reader's Encyclopedia

by WilliamRoseBenet (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.24

  A revised one-volume encyclopedia with over 10,000 informative entries, covering biographies of poets, playwrights, novelists and essayists from Aristophanes, to Toni Morrison, from Chuang Tzu to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There are plot summaries, sketches of principal characters, myths, legends and folklore, biographies of artists, musicians and historical personages, as well as accounts of significant schools and movements in literature, and recipients of major literary awards.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $4.19

  A revised one-volume encyclopedia with over 10,000 informative entries, covering biographies of poets, playwrights, novelists and essayists from Aristophanes, to Toni Morrison, from Chuang Tzu to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There are plot summaries, sketches of principal characters, myths, legends and folklore, biographies of artists, musicians and historical personages, as well as accounts of significant schools and movements in literature, and recipients of major literary awards.