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  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141985169
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.99

The Penguin Guide to Literature in English

Britain And Ireland




A helpful introduction to English and Irish Literature aimed at non-native speakers of English

This second edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the end of the twentieth century. It covers the works of novelists, dramatists and poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Austen to Dickens, James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, right through to modern-day authors such as Jeanette Winterson, Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh.

  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141985169
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.99

About the authors

Anonymus

Born in the north of England, the author of THE BOY WHO SAW TRUE chose to remain anonymous and would only allow his diary to appear several years after his death, with the stipulation that the original spellings were to remain and some of the names be changed.
His editor Cyril Scott enjoyed a two-fold career as a musical composer and a writer on the occult and other related matters.

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