R160.00
The book is an essential academic reference for navigating literary movements, plot summaries, and author bibliographies.
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1102 Pages, Hardback. 24x16x6cm(heavy)
A guide to English literature in which thousands of detailed A-Z entries are combined with a series of essays. The book creates a research network, allowing the user to follow lines of interest, investigate topics, and place them within historical and social contexts.
For this edition, the essays have been arranged chronologically, enabling quick reference and providing a sense of the historical progression of all forms of literature in the English language. The text is cross-referenced and bibliographical references have been checked and updated.
The book is an essential academic reference for navigating literary movements, plot summaries, and author bibliographies.
The essential reference to English literature from Beowulf to The Satanic Verses-The work of more than 50 leading scholars, this A-to-Z guide covers 800 writers and more than 1,000 individual major works of the past 12 centuries. Includes detailed essays, cross-references, a chronology, and 160 halftones.
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