Key Features:
BEST-SELLER - has sold over 160,000 in paperback and the hardback sold over 75,000 in latest edition
- Over 600 new entries including Jim Crace, Anglo-Indian Literature, Ben Elton, and travel writing
- Over 5,500 entries - all fully revised and updated for this new edition
- Covers literary theory, historical context, characters, and allusions
- Up-to-date appendices list recent literary prize winners
- Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors, headed by Margaret Drabble
Description:
This is a book 'one turns to with constant pleasure' (TLS).
The classic guide to English literature, fully updated and revised for this paperback new edition.
Based on the best-selling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors working under Margaret Drabble's editorial direction, this handy reference work provides the reader with unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries.
Extensively updated and expanded for this new edition, this book provides essential reading for readers.
New entries on modern authors such as Jim Crace and Ben Elton have been added, alongside new entries on topics such as travel writing and Anglo-Indian literature.
Over 5,500 entries provide a wide coverage, including entries on the literature of other countries.
The fully-updated appendices list literary prize-winners, including the Nobel, Man-Booker, and Pulitzer prizes.
BEST-SELLER - has sold over 160,000 in paperback and the hardback sold over 75,000 in latest edition
- Over 600 new entries including Jim Crace, Anglo-Indian Literature, Ben Elton, and travel writing
- Over 5,500 entries - all fully revised and updated for this new edition
- Covers literary theory, historical context, characters, and allusions
- Up-to-date appendices list recent literary prize winners
- Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors, headed by Margaret Drabble
Description:
This is a book 'one turns to with constant pleasure' (TLS).
The classic guide to English literature, fully updated and revised for this paperback new edition.
Based on the best-selling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors working under Margaret Drabble's editorial direction, this handy reference work provides the reader with unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries.
Extensively updated and expanded for this new edition, this book provides essential reading for readers.
New entries on modern authors such as Jim Crace and Ben Elton have been added, alongside new entries on topics such as travel writing and Anglo-Indian literature.
Over 5,500 entries provide a wide coverage, including entries on the literature of other countries.
The fully-updated appendices list literary prize-winners, including the Nobel, Man-Booker, and Pulitzer prizes.