The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1275
ISBN-13: 9780521831796
Subjects: Encyclopaedias & Reference Works; Literary & Linguistic Reference Works; Technology & Industrial Arts; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Dictionaries; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Reference; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Commonwealth literature (English); Remote Sensing; Authors, English; Bio-bibliography; Biography; English literature
First sentence: A Beckett, Gilbert (Abbott) 1811-56 Humorist. Born in London of an old Wiltshire family claiming descent from the father of St Thomas a Becket, he attended Westminster School and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn.