This is a second-hand hardcover book

Condition: The dust jacket has light fading to the spine area, and a 1cm tear to the bottom edge with creasing and wear around the tear. There is a name written tidily on the first page, and there is a light discolouring and age spots to the edges of the compressed pages. There is light surface wear in a few places to the top and bottom edge of the cover. The rest of the book has no faults.

Dimensions: 198x253mm Pages: 608 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication date: 1998 1st edition

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature Edited by Roger Robinson & Nelson Wattie

This book offers a comprehensive record of New Zealand writing in easily accessible form. It contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements, and professional organisations. Its broad scope extends from pre-European Maori oral forms to work across all forms of writing in the late 1990s. Detailed biographies examine the careers and contributions of notable New Zealand writers, while longer entries on such themes as art in New Zealand literature, the Depression, gold-mining, landscape, science fiction, and war and literature provide a strong structural underpinning to the work. The generous range of plot summaries and author entries will prove invaluable to students and all readers with an interest in New Zealand and its literature.

The Companion extends beyond the major traditional fields of fiction to provide generous treatment of New Zealand's children's literature, popular fiction, and other forms, including journals, music lyrics, and television drama.

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