The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature - Tapa dura

Based on the fifth edition of "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", this is a concise reference guide for the student. More than 5,000 entries illuminate fictional characters, literary movements, legends, theatres, periodicals, the plots of novels, plays, songs and poems, and the lives and works of authors, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, and historians. The entries have been updated and several entirely new essays added.

About the Editors: Margaret Drabble is one of modern Britain's most distinguished novelists. Her books include The Middle Ground, The Realms of Gold, The Ice Age, and A Writer's Britain. Jenny Stringer was an assistant editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition and has since contributed to and edited several other reference works.