Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK.

Readers should write immediately to Bloomsbury for an examination copy of this book. Many will want to adopt it in their courses, and everybody, to judge from my experience, will derive great quantities of pleasure and profit from reading it.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Language in Print2. Language: Forms and Uses3. Language Through Time4. Writing and Language SkillsFurther Reading

Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK.

Readers should write immediately to Bloomsbury for an examination copy of this book. Many will want to adopt it in their courses, and everybody, to judge from my experience, will derive great quantities of pleasure and profit from reading it.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Language in Print2. Language: Forms and Uses3. Language Through Time4. Writing and Language SkillsFurther Reading