Great Writers Of The English Language: Novelists and Prose Writers
Vinson, James (editor)
| Publication Date | 1979 |
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| ISBN | 9780333252925 |
| Publisher | Macmillan, |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Good + copy in very good dw. |
| SKU | 9826 |
| Notes | Green boards with silver titles to spine. Hint of bumping to spine ends. Lower edge is rubbed with exposed board. Light surface scuffing to dust wrapper. |
Description
Hardback 1367pp. A substantial and very useful reference volume. Each entry, on one of 500 dramatists, gives biography, bibliography, brief further reading and an attributed essay by an established academic. Covers from Peter Abrahams to Israel Zangwill; from Delarivier Manley, Robert Herrick and Thomas Hobbes to John Updike and Nadine Gordimer. Editor James Vinson ; associate editor DL Kirkpatrick.