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English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is cour 1st ed. 356p.

John Dryden (1631-1700), the great representative figure in the literature of the latter part of the seventeenth century, exemplifies in his work most of the main tendencies of the time. He came into notice with a poem on the death of Cromwell in 1658, a 1st ed. 314p.

William Shakespeare, in terms of his life and his body of work, is the most written about author in the history of Western civilization. His canon includes 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epic narrative poems. The First critical study on Shakespeare was publ 1st ed. xii+304p., 22cm.

English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer, conversationalist, regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson’s literary reputation is part dependent on James Boswell’s (1740-1795) biography the life of 1st ed. xxii+283p., Appendices; Bibliography; 22cm.