The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature - Tapa dura

"This splendid compilation surpasses all other guides to New Zealand literature and supplants The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, ed. by Terry Sturm (CH, Mar'92). The more than 90 scholars who contributed entries to the present volume maintain a consistently high standard and cover a wide range of subjects....an extraordinary achievement. Most highly recommended." --Choice "This splendid compilation surpasses all other guides to New Zealand literature and supplants The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, ed. by Terry Sturm (CH, Mar'92). The more than 90 scholars who contributed entries to the present volume maintain a consistently high standard and cover a wide range of subjects....an extraordinary achievement. Most highly recommended." --Choice "This splendid compilation surpasses all other guides to New Zealand literature and supplants The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, ed. by Terry Sturm (CH, Mar'92). The more than 90 scholars who contributed entries to the present volume maintain a consistently high standard and cover a wide range of subjects....an extraordinary achievement. Most highly recommended." --Choice "This splendid compilation surpasses all other guides to New Zealand literature and supplants The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, ed. by Terry Sturm (CH, Mar'92). The more than 90 scholars who contributed entries to the present volume maintain a consistently high standard and cover a wide range of subjects....an extraordinary achievement. Most highly recommended." --Choice

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature offers a comprehensive record of New Zealand writing in easily accessible form. It contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements, and professional organisations. The generous range of plot summaries and author entries will prove invaluable to students and the interested lay reader alike.