The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

This fully revised edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the present day. It covers the works of novelists, dramatists and poets from Chauser to Shakespeare, Austen to Dickens, James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, right through to modern-day authors such as Ian Banks, Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh.