Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about thirty nineteenth-century writers; each with an introduction to the author and his or her works, a list of principal writings, and a selection of critical excerpts.
Nineteen essays concerned with the work of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Stendhal, Kafka, Borges, Flaubert, Garcia Marquez, and other European and Latin American writers.
Examines short stories, poems, plays, and novels by literary greats such as Shakespeare, Keats, Austen, Whitman, and Hemingway to show twenty-first-century readers the pleasure and power of reading.
A collection of six essays exploring the tension between a writer's art and real life, viewed in light of the author's experiences living in South Africa.
