The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature - Hardcover

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9780198661405: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198661401 ISBN 13: 9780198661405

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1987

Based on the fifth edition of "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", this is a concise reference guide for the student. More than 5,000 entries illuminate fictional characters, literary movements, legends, theatres, periodicals, the plots of novels, plays, songs and poems, and the lives and works of authors, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, and historians. The entries have been updated and several entirely new essays added.

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Review from previous edition It is a fascinating, compact and readable reference work. (Day by Day)

a work of extraordinary value ... No library, no matter how small, can claim not to be able to afford at least one copy of this invaluable and almost incomparable, reference book. Another authoritative reference work of remarkable value will be welcome news to those libraries wich found themselves unable to purchase the full edition. (Library Review)

accessible, readable (Mail on Sunday)

If you are at all interested in literature, then this is your essential reference book (Writers News)

REVIEWS of the Parent Hardback 'It's the best' Times Higher Education Supplement 'A book one turns to with constant pleasure' Times Literary Supplement 'Indispensable' The Economist

About the Author:

About the Editors: Margaret Drabble is one of modern Britain's most distinguished novelists. Her books include The Middle Ground, The Realms of Gold, The Ice Age, and A Writer's Britain. Jenny Stringer was an assistant editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition and has since contributed to and edited several other reference works.

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