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A helpful introduction to English and Irish Literature aimed at non-native speakers of English This second 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 end of the twentieth century. It covers the works of novelists, dramatists and poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Austen to Dickens, James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, right through to modern-day authors such as Jeanette Winterson, Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh.

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Ronald Carter (Author) Ronald Carter is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham. John McRae (Author) John McRae is Professor of English at the University of Nottingham.

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