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Bestsellers : popular fiction since 1900 / Clive Bloom.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bloom, Clive.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Best sellers.
- Books and reading.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Best sellers--Great Britain--Bibliography.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 292 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Summary:
- What fiction have British people been reading in the last hundred years? Who are the most popular authors, the most popular books and the most important genres? Such straightforward questions raise intriguing literary, cultural, social and intellectual responses which often require much detective work in the annals of lost literature. This essential guide and reference work is the only available study of all of the bestselling books, authors and genres since the beginning of the twentieth-century, providing an unique insight into over one hundred years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-270) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0333687426
- 0333687434
- OCLC:
- 49225573
- Online:
- Publisher description
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