The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures

by Carol Strickland

Professors, students, and anyone who loves to read will want this fascinating and attractive volume. Beginning with great works from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, this literary timeline gallops from Mesopotamian pictograms and Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic to Renaissance and Baroque masterworks by Machiavelli and Molire, and on to modernism. Along the way, it presents the birth of the novel, Gothic chills, Thomas Paine's rabble-rousing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402748604
• ISBN13: 9781402748608
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 5.5"