The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure

The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
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Publisher : Melville House
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781612193793
ISBN-13 : 161219379X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by : C. D. Rose

A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Chambers Biographical Dictionary
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Publisher : Chambers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0550106936
ISBN-13 : 9780550106933
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Chambers Biographical Dictionary by : Joan Bakewell

Dictionaries of biography.

The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law

The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 637
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ISBN-10 : 9780300113006
ISBN-13 : 0300113005
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law by : Roger K. Newman

This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others

American Authors, 1600-1900

American Authors, 1600-1900
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:174426249
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis American Authors, 1600-1900 by : Stanley Kunitz

Southern Writers

Southern Writers
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 080710390X
ISBN-13 : 9780807103906
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis Southern Writers by : Joseph M. Flora

Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summaries--many of which are not readily available elsewhere--provide in their total effect a brief history of southern literature from colonial times to the present.The volume is, in part, a companion to A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., ed.), a work that has become a standard reference for anyone seriously interested in the literature of the South. With its wealth of essential biographical information on the region's writers, both major and minor, this new guide will take its place alongside that earlier volume as an invaluable aid to the study of southern writing. Especially useful will be complete listings of the first printings of the books by each writer provided after the respective summaries.Included as contributors of the individual biographical summaries are most of the better-known scholars of southern literature, plus a number of promising young scholars. The editors, each of whom is an outstanding scholar in southern literary studies, are:

The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary

The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 495
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521567807
ISBN-13 : 9780521567800
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary by : David Crystal

Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present

A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists

A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 744
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1843761394
ISBN-13 : 9781843761396
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists by : Philip Arestis

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Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary
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Publisher : Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Total Pages : 1192
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015042930803
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary by : Merriam-Webster, Inc

A biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

British Authors Before 1800

British Authors Before 1800
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:25476676
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis British Authors Before 1800 by : Stanley Kunitz