The Facts on File Encyclopedia of the 20th Century: A Comprehensvie Guide to the Important People

By Inc. Facts on File

Thousands of fascinating entries concerning the 20th century information on: dictators and despots, from Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein; heroes, saints and martyrs, including Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Simone Weil, Mohandas Gandhi and Maximilliam Kolbe; poets and writers, from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig; significant literary and intellectual works, including Elliot's Wasteland, Joyce's Ulysses, Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Freud's Interpretation of Dreams; intellectual ideas and movements, such as logical positivism philosophy, surrealism (art and literature, cubism (art), feminism literature, politics and sociology, serialism (music) and postmodernism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816024618
• ISBN13: 9780816024612
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 1046 Pages
• Weight: 5.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 9.1" x 11.0"