Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.
Divorced and estranged from her grown daughters, Candida Wilton moves to a rundown flat well below her means and finds exhilaration in her self-imposed poverty, during which she confides her thoughts to a computer and makes friends with new peers.
Contains more than nine thousand alphabetical entries including biographical information on authors, composers, and artists, over two thousand plot summaries, movements in literature, literary prizes, and articles on literary societies.
Provides encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of English literature and includes entries on Anglo-Indian literature, censorship, and gay and lesbian literature.
