Sophie Thomas
Contributor
Sophie Thomas is a Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, where she teaches a range of subjects, including 18th- and 19th-century literature. She is also a contributor to 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Her work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You, where the work originally appeared.
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Nervous Conditions, semi-autobiographical novel by Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga that was published in English in the United Kingdom in 1988. It won the Africa section of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1989. The novel begins in the late 1960s in what was then Rhodesia (now…
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Publications (1)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2012)
Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have exited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs and presenting quotes from individual novels...
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