The new authority on English literature.

This fully revised and expanded new edition gives practical help and guidance to students and sets out a logical method for approaching novels, plays and poems.

This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renai

"Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean," is how Vanessa Bell described France in a letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf. Remarking on the vivifying effect of Cassis,

In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment