The History of English Literature

by Perry Keenlyside

Other authorsDerek Jacobi (Narrator)
CD audiobook, 2001

Publication

Naxos Audio Books (2001), Edition: Unabridged, 4 pages

Genres

Description

Tells the remarkable story of the world's richest literary resource, the story telling, poetry, the growth of the novel and the greatest histories and essays, which have informed the language and the imagination wherever English is spoken

User reviews

LibraryThing member benuathanasia
This offers excellent insight into the authors it DOES cover, but SOOOO much is missing (in favor of garbage no one has ever heard of).
No monastic nuns writing from their cloisters in medieval England?
Arthur Conan Doyle presented as a footnote?
NO AGATHA CHRISTIE??
A brief mention of the arrival of
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children's lit with Robinson Crusoe, but no A. A. Milne? Woefully incomplete.
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Language

Original language

English

ISBN

9626342218 / 9789626342213

Physical description

4 p.; 5.75 inches

Pages

4

Rating

½ (6 ratings; 3.8)
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