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Hardcover The Lives of the Novel: A History Book

ISBN: 0691121893

ISBN13: 9780691121895

The Lives of the Novel: A History

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A bold new account of the history of the novel, from ancient Greece to the present

This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it. Impelled by this conflict,...

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