DK Publishing

Examines "the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 ... articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time, whether Ancient Greece, post-classical Europe, or modern-day Korea"--Amazon.com.

The Literature Book

Jamieson

This is a non fiction book with a brief history of .. the entirety of literature and it's pretty interesting! I did really enjoy reading about the books and the authors, I especially enjoyed the sections on romanticism and modernism.

I read this cover to cover but you can definitely jump around and read a little bit here and there if you wanted to. It's not /super/ in depth, but it does pretty well for a three hundred page book. I just wish more diverse writers had been included prior to the contemporary literature section. This book has a foreword about how including more "non white male" authors in the canon was important but I don't know how much they actually incorporated that

However, for such a short book I think this was really interesting and I liked reading about some books I hadn't heard of before, or had heard the name of but didn't really know what it was about

There is another book in this series about history so I will probably read that one too

The Literature Book

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