Literary Genius

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Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature

What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Get Literary Genius literature books for free.
Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with illustrations based upon their texts.Contents:
1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare
3. Reynolds Price on John Milton
4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope
5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson
6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon
7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth
8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen
9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt
10. Evan Boland on John Keats
11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. A. N. Wilson o Check Literary Genius our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with illustrations based upon their texts.Contents:
1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare
3 Wilson o

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