My Naughty Little Sister (Audio cassette)

In this updated edition, Peter Conrad offers not an encyclopaedic survey but a personal, chronological interpretation of the history through an emphasis on the continuity of major literary forms and on the ways in which major figures transform the tradition, which in turn is accommodated, reacted against or reinterpreted by later generations. He attempts to characterize the literature as a whole, to suggest something of its Englishness. Above all, he emphasizes that English literature represents the self-image of English people whose testament and inheritance it is.