This illustrated & fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative & international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain & Ireland the USA Canada India Africa South Africa New Zealand the South Pacific & Australia as well as on many important poems novels literary journals & plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse & to discover many new writers & works while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.