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Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Lives of the NovelistsProvides the lives of some 294 novelists writing in English, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. This book shows the changing forms of the genre, and how the aspirations of authors to divert and sometimes to educate their readers, has in some respects, radically changed over the centuries.
Full description- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Published: 01 November 2011
- Format: Hardback 704 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Literary Reference Works
- ISBN 13: 9781846681578 ISBN 10: 184668157X
- Sales rank: 57,801
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Full description for Lives of the Novelists
This is the most complete history of fiction in English ever published. The world's greatest authority - arguably the only person who could have written it, John Sutherland - provides the lives of some 294 novelists writing in English, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Arranged in chronological order the novelist's lives are opinionated, informative, frequently funny and often shocking. Professor Sutherland's authors come from all over the world; their writings illustrate every kind of fiction from gothic, penny dreadfuls and pornography to fantasy, romance and high literature. The book shows the changing forms of the genre, and how the aspirations of authors to divert and sometimes to educate their readers, has in some respects, radically changed over the centuries, and in others - such as their interest in sex and relationships - remained remarkably constant.
