You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a live...
None
None
The remarkable and true story of the nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, and feminist Fanny Fern.
Vols. 1-14, 16- include the society's Proceedings, 1871-1905, 1961-