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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature( )
Editor: Drabble, Margaret
Stringer, Jenny
Series title:Oxford Quick Reference Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-280039-8
Publication Date:Oct 1996
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.

Book Details
Pages:670
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / American / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.81 x 5.06 x 1.33 Inches
Book Weight:0.968 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Margaret Drabble was born on June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, England. She attended The Mount School in York and Newnham College, Cambridge University. After graduation, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford during which time she understudied for Vanessa Redgrave.

She is a novelist, critic, and the editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her works include A Summer Bird Cage; The Millstone, which won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in 1966; Jerusalem the Golden, which won James Tait Black Prize in 1967; and The Witch of Exmoor. She also received the E. M. Forster award and was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Fellowship in the 1960s and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980.

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