The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521440866 ISBN 13: 9780521440868

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Substantially enlarged and updated for this new edition, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the definitive guide to the vast and extraordinarily rich heritage of literature written in English. It covers all the major novelists, poets and dramatists - from Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens to Conrad and to contemporary writers from all over the English-speaking world - Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Les Murray, Wole Soyinka, and Janet Frame. More than 100 specialist contributors provide detailed biographical and critical articles not only on writers and their works. Substantial coverage is also given to such literary genres as popular fiction, science fiction, detective novels, and children's classics. All literary concepts and movements are described in detail. · Over 4,500 alphabetical entries, cross-referenced throughout · Includes all literature in English - British, Irish, American, Australian, African, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian and Caribbean · Illustrated throughout with over 115 photographs and line drawings

About this title

Review:

'... immense browsability.' Anthony Burgess, The Observer

'... an indispensable and indeed path-breaking guide'. The L. A. Times

'... conceptually generous ... on overall points Cambridge wins. Its breadth of vision is the chief reason'. The Guardian

Book Description:

This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521440866
• ISBN 13: 9780521440868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1067
• Editor: Ousby Ian