The History of English Literature, Perry Keenlyside
The History of English Literature, Perry Keenlyside
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The History of English Literature

Author: Perry Keenlyside

Narrator: Derek Jacobi, and full cast

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 10/01/2005


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on May 30, 2019

An admittedly brief, and certainly not comprehensive, yet very readable and thought-provoking overview of literature written in the English tongue - even if you stumble on Chaucer. In any case, Keenlyside has put before us the major points of English literature, spanning most of the cultural events......more