100 Songs

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WINNER OF THE 2016 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

100 Songs is a good start, for anybody lucky enough to be starting out with such a genius The London Evening Standard

A new collection of Bob Dylans most essential lyrics one hundred songs that represent the Nobel Laureates incredible musical range through the entirety of his career so far.

Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time and the first musician in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In100 Songs, Dylan delivers an intimate and carefully curated collection of his most important lyrics that spans from the beginning of his career through the present day. Perfect for students and younger readers as well as long-time fans, this portable, abridged volume of Dylans lyrics shines a light on the songs that mean the most from a music and cultural legend.

The Nobel acknowledges what weve long sensed to be true; that Mr. Dylan is among the most authentic voices America has produced, a maker of images as audacious and resonant as anything in Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson. Dwight Garner, New York Times

'The Nobel committee got this right Dylans ongoing achievement in American song is a literary feat to celebrate in his gaudiest of ways. Rob Sheffield,Rolling Stone

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'The Nobel committee got this right Dylans ongoing achievement in American song is a literary feat to celebrate in his gaudiest of ways. -- Rob Sheffield * Rolling Stone *
The Nobel acknowledges what weve long sensed to be true; that Mr. Dylan is among the most authentic voices America has produced, a maker of images as audacious and resonant as anything in Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *
100 Songsis a good start, for anybody lucky enough to be starting out with such a genius * The London Evening Standard *

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Bob Dylan has released thirty-nine studio albums, which collectively have sold over 125 million copies around the world. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the countrys highest civilian honor. His memoir,Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on theNew York Timesbestseller list.