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    The History of English Literature
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    The History of English Literature

    Written by Perry Keenlyside

    Narrated by Derek Jacobi and Full Cast

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    About this audiobook

    Perry Keenlyside tells the remarkable story of the world’s richest literary resource. The story-telling, the poetry, the growth of the novel and the great histories and essays which have informed the language and the imagination wherever English is spoken. This is the fourth in the Naxos AudioBooks Histories series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateMay 1, 2001
    ISBN9789629547196
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    • 5/5
      Wonderful and engaging reading with highlights of passages from famous novels and poems. A good overview with a broad brush; not a detailed treatment.
    • 4/5
      Excellent app in the world of education.
      made me happy
    • 5/5
      I didn't think I would find an audiobook of The History of English Literature. It's really tiresome to read the book in a single sitting. Luckily, I came across this after searching everywhere for an audiobook version. Thank you so much, Derek Jacobi and cast.
    • 3/5
      Good material but the sound editing is terrible and excerpts as well as narration are often cut off or cut short.
    • 4/5
      Scritto molto bene, ma a volte non termina una frase e riparte con un'altra!
    • 4/5
      This offers excellent insight into the authors it DOES cover, but SOOOO much is missing (in favor of garbage no one has ever heard of). No monastic nuns writing from their cloisters in medieval England?Arthur Conan Doyle presented as a footnote?NO AGATHA CHRISTIE??A brief mention of the arrival of children's lit with Robinson Crusoe, but no A. A. Milne? Woefully incomplete.

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