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A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works [Hardcover]

Michael Cox (Editor)

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Publication Date: July 5, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0198662491 | ISBN-13: 978-0198662495

A quick-reference guide to authors and their works. The focus is on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American, Commonwealth, and other foreign writers.

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Michael Cox is Senior Commissioning Editor, Reference Books, at OUP and is currently compiling The Oxford Chronology of English Literature on a freelance basis. His previous books for the Press include The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories and The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (both with R. A. Gilbert); Victorian Detective Stories: An Oxford Anthology; and The Oxford Book of twentieth-Century Ghost Stories.

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Hardcover: 688 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 5, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198662491
ISBN-13: 978-0198662495
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds

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Michael Cox is the biographer of the ghost-story writer and scholar M. R. James. His first novel, The Meaning of Night, was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa First Novel Award. He lives in rural Northamptonshire, England.

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posthumous papers, detective novelist, miscellaneous writer, thriller writer

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Other Poems, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Other Stories, Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Other Stones, Thomas Hardy, Conan Doyle, Henry James, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, Jane Austen, Sir Thomas, Bernard Shaw, John Dryden, Arnold Bennett, Sir Charles, Margaret Oliphant, Rider Haggard, Henry Fielding, George Eliot, Sir Walter Besant, Graham Greene, Lord Byron

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