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Thoroughly updated to include writers such as Caryl Chruchill, Brian Friel, Martin Amis and Graham Swift, this book remains the best overall survey of English literature for students beginning a university course in English. Robert Barnard looks selectively at the most important writers within each period from thetime of Chaucer, and focuses on oneor two of their works in detail. He deals briefly with the earlier period and more fully with the last two centuries, moving right to the present with detailed coverage of the post-war novel and theater.
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