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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198793359
Publisert
2019
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
236 gr
Høyde
195 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Redaktør

Biographical note

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).