A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel
Published on 31. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-8156-0697-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this study, Frederick R. Karl defines and evaluates the main movements in the English novel beginning with Joyce. Karl devotes separate chapters to the works of C. P. Snow, Samuel Beckett, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Henry Greene, and Joyce Cary. In a series of composite chapters he considers Iris Murdoch, Anthony Powell, the Angry Young Men, Rosamond Lehmann, Nigel Dennis, William Golding, Doris Lessing, and Angus Wilson.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8156-0697-0 (9780815606970)
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Frederick R. Karl is the author of Reader's Guides to The Nineteenth Century British Novel and Joseph Conrad.