Product Description

A best-seller for more than forty years, this is the survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. Over 75 colour plates and thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27074 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 3072 pages

Customer Reviews

Handy tool
Get it cheaper 2nd hand if you can. Great selections but remember you may need to purchase full, annotated versions of selected pieces for Uni anyway. Provides very useful cross-reference sources for essays.

Literature Overload
Don't be fooled, this book is big, and heavy too but it's definitely a worthwhile purchase.

I brought it as it is a mandatory book for my degree course at University, and I imagine that's what you're buying too, but if not, and you just really like literature, then it's definitely worth considering.

The pages are very thin and can be torn out easily, which is no bad thing, especially if you don't want to lug the whole book around campus with you all day.

The text is very readable, set in about 7/8pt type, so not too small, although due to the amount of literature crammed into the book, it can be difficult finding the novel/play/poem you're looking for.

Overall, worth a look at, expensive but this is the cheapest place I've found it on.

16/20