The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

by Drabble, Margaret; Stringer, Jenny; Hahn, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780198605591
• ISBN10: 0198605595
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Based on the hugely popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature , this volume offers more than 5,500 entries on individual novels and plays; songs and poems; the lives and works of authors, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers and historians; fictional characters; literary movements; legends; theatres; and periodicals. In adapting the parent volume, the editors have eliminated the most peripheral entries and have condensed many of the remaining articles, while retaining the clear and graceful style that characterized the original. New entries on modern authors such as Jim Crace and Ben Elton have been added, alongside new entries on topics such as travel writing and Anglo-Indian literature. The fully-updated appendices list literary prize-winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker prize, and Pulitzer prizes. The result is a book that readers will find indispensable and highly affordable.

Author Biography

Margaret Drabble is a distinguished novelist and biographer. Her many novels include Jerusalem the Golden (1967), The Needle's Eye (1972), The Witch of Exmoor (1996), and The Peppered Moth (2001). She has also written biographies of Arnold Bennett (1974) and Angus Wilson (1995).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Note to the Reader	ix
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature	1	(717)
Poets Laureate	718	(1)
Nobel Prize for Literature	718	(1)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	719	(1)
Man Booker Prize for Fiction	720