The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

by IanOusby (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.25

  An illustrated, single-volume reference that provides up-to-date, authoritative information on literature from around the English-speaking world. With contributions from over 100 specialists, the Guide presents 4,500 detailed, reliable biographical and critical articles on major poets, essayists, novelists, playwrights, and critics. Over 300 illustrations.

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  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.25

  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