Genius Writers Playing Cards: (52 Playing Cards, Standard Playing Card Deck, Traditional Cards with Suits)
Marcel George
(Illustrator)
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Description
Add a touch of class to your poker table with Genius Writers, featuring some of the most exciting literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Fifty-four writers from the last 100 years have been chosen from the following periods: Modern, Mid-Century, Postmodern, Contemporary. Marcel George's stunning watercolour portraits of writers of fiction ensure that even if you don't win, you're in good company. Genius Writers can be used in exactly the same way as regular playing cards. Each suit features a group of writers from history with numbers and court cards, including two jokers. The following periods: ModernJames Joyce
William Faulkner
George Orwell
Colette
Thomas Mann
Katherine Mansfield
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
Marcel Proust
Ernest Hemingway
Franz Kafka
Virginia Woolf
Samuel Beckett Mid-Century
Albert Camus
Ursula K. Le Guin
Chinua Achebe
Philip K. Dick
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Jean Rhys
Doris Lessing
Philip Roth
Marguerite Duras
Raymond Chandler
Jack Kerouac
Clarice Lispector
John Updike Postmodern
Gabriel García Márquez
Italo Calvino
Maya Angelou
Günter Grass
Susan Sontag
J.M. Coetzee
Milan Kundera
Haruki Murakami
David Foster Wallace
Don DeLillo
Roberto Bolaño
Toni Morrison
Thomas Pynchon Contemporary
Hilary Mantel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Orhan Pamuk
Lydia Davis
Michel Houellebecq
Jonathan Franzen
Karl Ove Knausgard
Joan Didion
J.K. Rowling
Alice Munro
Zadie Smith
Elena Ferrante
Margaret Atwood The Jokers
Jorge Luis Borges
Vladamir Nabokov Other Genius decks include:
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Product Details
Price
$10.99
$10.22
Publisher
Laurence King
Publish Date
August 13, 2019
Dimensions
2.6 X 3.6 X 0.8 inches | 0.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Other
EAN/UPC
9781786274977
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Marcel George is a London-based illustrator who specializes in creating hand-painted contemporary watercolor illustrations. His clients include the Financial Times, Stella Artois, and Anthropologie.
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