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Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

By John , Sutherland

Book information

Publisher
Profile Books UK
Year
2011
ISBN
9781846681578, 9781847653437, 0118781952, 4461200000, 1119351979, 184668157X
ASIN
B005PQUX06
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (1887188 bytes)
Pages
704 pages; 23 x 15 cm\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:17:20
Nonfiction;Biography;Writing;Books About Books;His

Description

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.

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