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Oxford Paperback Reference
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Description edit
Based on the vastly popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer, this indispensable volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs, poems, novelists, poets, playwrights,... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Dr *johnson: Add a description of this character.
- William
- Milton
- Dryden
- Byron
- Chaucer
- Spenser
- Thomas
- Wordsworth
- James
- Richardson
- Tennyson
- Eliot
- Henry
- Charles
- George
- Shelley
- Mary
- Sidney
- Arthur
- Thackeray
- Elizabeth
- Blake
- Robert
- T. S.
- Southey
- W. *scott
- Margaret
- Woolf
- Auden
- Edward
- Queene
- Shakespeare
- Fletcher
- Horace
- Donne
- David
- Anne
- Dekker
- Tom
- Virgil
- Carlyle
- Gawain
Setting & Locations edit
- England
- London
- France
- Cambridge
- Paris
- Britain
- Italy
- Ireland
- America
- Scotland
- Europe
- Oxford
- Dublin
- Rome
- India
- New York
- Spain
- Edinburgh
- Wales
- Germany
- Africa
- Australia
- Boccaccio
- Heaven
- Monmouth
- Athens
- Cornwall
- Trinity College
- Jerusalem
- Venice
- Florence
- Arcadia
- Orlando
- Canterbury
- Berlin
- Malory
- Russia
- Goethe
- Greece
- Alexandria
- Glasgow
- Hardy
- Rochester
- Virginia
- Canada
- Middle Ages
- Charlotte
- New Zealand
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Oxford Paperback Reference. (standard series)
This book is in Oxford Companions. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Margaret Drabble (Editor)
- Jenny Stringer (Editor)
Other Contributors:
- Daniel Hahn - Assistant Editor
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0198661401
Page Count: 640
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0198661401
Page Count: 640
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 820.90003
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism
- Books › Reference › Publishing & Books › Bibliographies & Indexes › Literature
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › Drabble, Margaret
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › Reference
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