The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.
In these contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media students can read about how Lady Chatterly's Lover shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's A Doll's House meant to the early women's movement.
These carefully selected sources include:

• little-known documentary material, such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers and critics
• landmark essays in the history of criticism
• significant pieces of criticism from later periods to demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time.

The Collected Critical HeritageII is available as a set of 42 volumes and the series is also available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes), and as individual volumes.