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Loading... The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985)by Margaret Drabble
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Classic reference book for any literature buff and first year undergraduates, this dictionary won't leave you indifferent: themes, literary movements and biographies are explained clearly and concisely. It is also very useful for quick reference or as a background check for essays; it can also give some pointers for further reading. This book is recommended for amateur libraries and 1st year undergraduates. ( ) The standard one-volume reference work considerably revised for this edition. but containing some doubtful judgements; Stella Gibbons, for example, doesn't merit a substantive entry even though "Cold Comfort Farm" has been continuously in print since first publication more than seventy years ago. Something which was nothing more than a clever parody of its contemporaries would scarcely have appealed to succeeding generations of readers when many more "literary" writers of the inter-war period have sunk almost without trace. no reviews | add a review
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Offers extensive coverage of the classical roots of English literature, and of European authors and works that have influenced the development of English literature. The wide range of articles in the text covers not only authors and their works, but also many other aspects of literature. No library descriptions found. |
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