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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Pages
496

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Cover of: Titans of literature, from Homer to the present.
Titans of literature, from Homer to the present.
1970, Books for Libraries Press
in English
Cover of: Titans of literature, from Homer to the present.
Titans of literature, from Homer to the present.
1933, George Routledge and Sons
in English
Cover of: Titans of literature, from Homer to the present
Titans of literature, from Homer to the present
1932, G. P. Putnam's Sons
in English
Cover of: Titans of literature, from Homer to the present
Titans of literature, from Homer to the present
1932, G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Cover of: Titans of literature, from Homer to the present.

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Table of Contents

Homer and Greek legend --
Sophocles and Greek drama --
Virgil and Latin poetry --
Dante and the medieval mind --
Boccaccio and the Renaissance --
Villon and medieval music --
Montaigne and the average man --
Cervantes and the spirit of mockery --
Chaucer and the English spirit --
Shakespeare, the mirror --
Voltaire, the critic --
Milton, the conscience --
Defoe, the journalist --
Goethe, the adventurer --
Byron, the yearning --
Balzac, the historian --
Victor Hugo, the romantic --
Verlaine, the musician --
Dickens, the heart --
Shelley, the voice --
Flaubert, the realist --
Whitman, the prophet --
Poe, the inventor --
Dostoievski, the analyst --
Tolstoi, the painter --
Mark Twain, the first American --
Anatole France, the skeptic --
Proust, the invalid --
George Moore, the man of letters --
Coda: a short history of the development of literature since the Victorian period.

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New York, London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
928
Library of Congress
PN451 .R3, PN451 .R3 1970

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 496 p.
Number of pages
496

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24750214M
Internet Archive
titansofliteratu00rasc
ISBN 10
0836917758
ISBN 13
9780836917758
LCCN
32031589, 76121502
OCLC/WorldCat
264713

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