The Novel: A Guide to the Novel From Its Origins to the Present Day

by Andrew Michael Roberts

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747520542
• ISBN13: 9780747520542
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A well- written but insular guide

This work should more properly have been called a Guide to the English Novel'. It has as a good series of critical essays on the novel from Renaissance times to the nineteen nineties. It has an alphabetical section which includes biographical and bibliographical information on many novelists.It has also plot summaries of major novelists and definitions of literary terms. It does not however include very many major novelists and in this regard the absence of Americans is particularly noticeable. Nonetheless it has much valuable information.