The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature |
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| Editor:
| Drabble, Margaret
Stringer, Jenny |
| Series title: | Oxford Paperback Reference Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-282667-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1990 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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Based on the vastly popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, this new volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs, poems, poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, historians, fictional characters, literary movements, legends, and more. For this abridgement, the editors have eliminated the most peripheral entries from the parent volume and have condensed many of the remaining articles,...
More DescriptionBased on the vastly popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, this new volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs, poems, poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, historians, fictional characters, literary movements, legends, and more. For this abridgement, the editors have eliminated the most peripheral entries from the parent volume and have condensed many of the remaining articles, while retaining the clear and graceful style that characterized the original. They have also updated information on modern authors and works and have added several entirely new essays on a number of topics such as parody, anachronism, autobiography, heroic drama, and foreign influences on English literature.