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Product Description: This opening volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" begins with the earliest surviving documents of literary importance, dating from around 800 AD. It ends with the works of writers such as John Skelton, William Dunbar and Thomas Malory, whose careers were well established before the accession of Henry VIII in 1509...read more

Product Description: Book by Bolton, W. F.

Product Description: Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition. Large 8vo. xii + 200pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In brick coloured cloth with bright gilt text and vignette illustration with matt beige dustwrapper...read more

Product Description: Short History of Literary English (A Littlefield, Adams quality paperback)

Product Description: This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English...read more