British writers / Parini, Jay

Contains essays that provide information about over twenty major British authors, each featuring a biography, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography, and includes an article on Old English literature. Arranged alphabetically from Austen to Wilde.

Presents biographical and critical profiles of twenty-two British writers spanning the Anglo-Saxon era through the twentieth century, each with a selected bibliography; also includes a chronology and a cumulative index of the "British Writers" series up to Supplement VI. Includes authors from Peter Ackroyd to A.N. Wilson.