English literature:

Basic overview of the history of English literature and language, followed by thumbnail sketches of lasting English novels that have never been out of print. Burgess was never without something insightful and interesting to say, whether in interviews or in this basic introduction to the subject. However, reviews and commentary are limited to specifically English novels and novelists, that is, the novelists of Great Britain, e.g. Lawrence, Austen, Woolf, Waugh, Carey, Maugham, etc. Nothing on American-English authors such as Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc.