Literary Masterpieces: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Literary Masterpieces)

By Joan Mellen

Gale Study Guides to Great Literature is a reference line composed of three series: Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces and Literary Topics. Convenient, comprehensive and targeted toward current coursework, these guides place authors, titles and topics into context for high school and college students as well as general researchers. Each Literary Masters volume introduces a significant author, covering basic biographical information. The related Literary Masterpieces volume explores a major title from this author's works in detail. Finally, the Literary Topics volume places the author and work within a relevant literary movement or genre.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787639710
• ISBN13: 9780787639716
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Instant Classic

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of several generations of a Colombian family while supernatural occurrences and unbelievable events are described with unblinking sincerity. Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, commands such mastery of language that his prose reads like verse. The beauty of his words wraps the reader inextricably into the fates of the Buendias. Their loves, their wars, their brutality, their death and dreams, are all told with Marquez's special gift of prose. One Hundred Years of Solitude is probably Marquez's finest work, destined to be a classic of world literature.