Book description
The fourth volume of The Penguin Companion is a guide to the older or (for the European) less accessible reaches of world literature.
Ancient Greece and Rome occupy the first section of the volume, and Byzantium the second. The third section, devoted to Oriental writing, covers Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Sanskrit among major languages, and Polynesian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese and Tibetan among the less familiar. The fourth section, on Africa, emphasizes the growing importance of new writers there and contains musch information which is not readily available elsewhere.
