Each volume in the "Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature" series contains a representative and wide-ranging selection of drama, poetry and prose extracted from the literature of English, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The items are arranged chronologically, and supported by full notes and biographical details of the authors. The writers represented in this volume show the diversity of writing in our times, from Thomas Hardy to Philip Larkin, G.B.Shaw to Tom Stoppard, and Henry James to Iris Murdoch. It also includes fantasy by P.G.Wodehouse, satires by Saki, letters by Virginia Woolf and speeches by Winston Churchill.