A gorgeously illustrated, centuries-spanning journey through the pages of some of history’s most beloved storytellers.
This beautifully illustrated book explores the stories behind over fifty literary manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library. Covering a timespan of nearly three millennia, the book features the work of some of the world’s best-known authors, including novelists, poets, dramatists, and children’s writers. From Sappho, Homer, and Ise no Go through the ages to Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton, then onward still to Ian Fleming, Shirley Hughes, and John le Carré, Literary Manuscripts is a journey through history within the pages of some of our most beloved storytellers.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Homer
Sappho
Cædmon
Ise no Go (Lady Ise)
H. ari¯ri¯ of Basra
Judah Halevi
La Chanson de Roland
Marie de France
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun
William Langland
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christine de Pizan
John Audelay
Mary Stewart
John Donne
George Herbert
John Milton
Thomas Traherne
Aphra Behn
Mary Astell
Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson
Jane Austen
Maria Edgeworth
Lord Byron
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Christina Rossetti
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
William Morris
Gerard Manley Hopkins
H.G. Wells
Thomas Hardy
Kenneth Grahame
Rupert Brooke
Edward Thomas
Wilfred Owen
W.B. Yeats
Franz Kafka
T.E. Lawrence
T.S. Eliot
C.S. Lewis
Joyce Cary
J.R.R. Tolkien
Barbara Pym
Raymond Chandler
Philip Larkin
Evan Jones
Ian Fleming
Jenny Joseph
Michael Bond
C. Day-Lewis
John le Carré
Shirley Hughes
Alan Bennett
Joanna Trollope
Philip Pullman
Notes
Further Reading
List of Manuscripts and
Picture Credits
Index
Homer
Sappho
Cædmon
Ise no Go (Lady Ise)
H. ari¯ri¯ of Basra
Judah Halevi
La Chanson de Roland
Marie de France
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun
William Langland
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christine de Pizan
John Audelay
Mary Stewart
John Donne
George Herbert
John Milton
Thomas Traherne
Aphra Behn
Mary Astell
Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson
Jane Austen
Maria Edgeworth
Lord Byron
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Christina Rossetti
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
William Morris
Gerard Manley Hopkins
H.G. Wells
Thomas Hardy
Kenneth Grahame
Rupert Brooke
Edward Thomas
Wilfred Owen
W.B. Yeats
Franz Kafka
T.E. Lawrence
T.S. Eliot
C.S. Lewis
Joyce Cary
J.R.R. Tolkien
Barbara Pym
Raymond Chandler
Philip Larkin
Evan Jones
Ian Fleming
Jenny Joseph
Michael Bond
C. Day-Lewis
John le Carré
Shirley Hughes
Alan Bennett
Joanna Trollope
Philip Pullman
Notes
Further Reading
List of Manuscripts and
Picture Credits
Index