You might also like

More about Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 294 loyalty points

Book synopsis

What fiction have we been reading in the last hundred years? Who are the most popular authors and what are the most popular books and the most important genres? Such straight-forward questions raise intriguing literary, cultural, social and intellectual responses which often require much detective work in the annals of lost literature. What unites best-selling authors as diverse as Catherine Cookson and Stephen King, Jilly Cooper and J.R.R. Tolkien? Their fame is not the result of accident but of art, commerce and mass-reading habits which have also elevated writers whose million-sellers are now long forgotten and whose own fictional heroes are nostalgic memories. This new study and reference work is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors and genres over the last one hundred years, providing an unique insight into a century of publishing and reading. From Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, Bestsellers takes us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900
• Author: Clive Bloom
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 306
• EAN: 9780333687420
• ISBN: 0333687426
• ID: 04597619
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 540 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. July 2002

Trending among others

---

---

---