The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble

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Based on the fifth edition of the "Companion", this concise volume contains more than 5,000 updated entries, including some entirely new ones.

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble

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.

Margaret Drabble is the author of several novels, including The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye. She is the editor of the fifth and sixth editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, and has published biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. She was awarded a Dame of the British Empire in 2008 for her contributions to current English writing.

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ISBN 13 9780198661405
ISBN 10 0198661401
Title The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Author Margaret Drabble
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1987-09-01
Number of pages 640
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