100 years

An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years traces the passages of life from birth to age one hundred through quotations from the world's greatest writers. Moving year by year, with surprising and illuminating juxtapositions of quotations from figures as diverse as Plato and Virginia Woolf, Leon Tolstoy and John Barth, this wise, beautiful, and moving portrait of the universal patterns of life will delight readers of all ages and backgrounds. Authors include Herman Melville, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, David Foster Wallace, Anne Frank, Fyodor Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and dozens of others.