The whole story of English Literature – Poetry, Prose, Drama, Fiction, and Criticism, from Beowulf to T. E. Lawrence, told in one volume of 1100 pages.

CONTENTS:

1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance
2. The End of the Middle Ages
3. Renascence and Reformation
4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton
5. The Drama to 1642: Part 1
6. The Drama to 1642: Part 2
7. Cavalier and Puritan
8. The Age of Dryden
9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift
10. The Age of Johnson
11. The Period of the French Revolution
12. The Nineteenth Century: Part 1
13. The Nineteenth Century: Part 2
14. The Nineteenth Century: Part 3 and Post-Victorian Literature
15. Late-Victorian and Post-Victorian Literature