A Biography
A Biography
A unique one volume history of the novel in which over 340 novelists are discussed and whose overview spans the entirety of English-language fiction: the work of Canadian, Australian, African and Caribbean writers is included in a single context with the great British, Irish and American writers.
Levertijd: ca. 4 tot 6 werkdagen
The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is geographically and culturally boundless and influenced by great novelists working in other languages. Michael Schmidt, choosing as his travel companions not critics or theorists but other novelists, does full justice to its complexity.