Ronald Carter

The "Cambridge Grammar of English" is a major new reference grammar from the world's leading grammar publisher. Written by highly respected experts in the field using extensive corpus research, it offers comprehensive coverage of spoken and written English based on real everyday usage. A clear two-part structure makes the book particularly user-friendly. In the first section, A-Z entries g...

This second edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the end of the twentieth century. It covers the works of novelists, dramatists and poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Austen to Dickens, James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, right through ...

This completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature with accompanying language notes exploring the interrelationships between language and literature. Highly praised for its readability and narrative style it charts the principal features of lite...

English Grammar Today is an indispensable guide to contemporary English grammar and usage, supported by a practical Workbook for grammar practice. With extensive corpus research, the grammar book provides over 500 entries organised into an easy-to-use A-Z structure and the Workbook provides hundreds of exercises that allow learners to practise the grammar covered in the main book. Authentic exampl...