本書按詩、戲劇、小說及散文等文類,精要介紹各時代英國文學的流變。書中評述範圍極廣,涵蓋綿延不絕的英國文學傳統以迄1970年代。原作文筆典雅,敘述精簡;在體例分明的格局中,以寬廣的視野、開闊的胸懷、深入的見解和清晰的闡釋,將文學落實於社會。因此出版以來盛譽不衰,在眾多英國文學史著作中脫穎而出,早有定論。Ivor Brown 在《觀察家報》(The Observer)撰文稱譽本書為「典範之作」,確是實
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works.It tells the sa