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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

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This illustrated and fully updated third edition of the Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available.

The Guide covers everything from Old English to Contemporary Writing from all over the english-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain, Ireland, USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia. It covers poems, novels, literary journals AND plays.

There are more than 280 new author entries.

This is a unique work of reference for the 21st Century that no reader or library should be without.

New Entries include:

  • Kate Atkinson
  • Amit Chaudhuri
  • Clive James
  • Jane Smiley
  • Zadie Smith