Sutherland, John, 1938-
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books Ltd. –Title page verso.
• 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 lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer’s work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann.
• The Seventeenth Century. John Bunyan Aphra Behn Daniel Defoe Samuel Richardson — The Eighteenth Century. Henry Fielding Samuel Johnson John Cleland Laurence Sterne Oliver Goldsmith Robert Bage Olaudah Equiano Fanny Burney Susanna Haswell Mrs Radcliffe James Hogg Charles Brockden Brown Walter Scott Jane Austen M.G. Lewis Mrs Frances Trollope Thomas De Quincey James Fenimore Cooper John Polidori Mary Shelley Mrs Catherine Gore — The Nineteenth Century. Harriet Martineau The Bulwer-Lyttons : Edward and Rosina Benjamin Disraeli Nathaniel Hawthorne Harrison Ainsworth Charles (James) Lever J.H. Ingraham Postscript : Prentiss Ingraham Edgar Allan Poe Mrs Gaskell Fanny Fern William Makepeace Thackeray Charles Dickens Mrs Henry Wood Anthony Trollope Grace Aguilar The Brontës : Patrick, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne Maria Monk George Eliot Postscript : G.H. Lewes Herman Melville Mrs E.D.E.N. Southworth Eliza Lynn Linton Postscript : Beatrice Harraden Sylvanus Cobb Jr Charlotte Yonge Wilkie Collins R.M. Ballantyne Mary J. Holmes Dinah Craik George Meredith Mrs Oliphant Horatio Alger Jr George du Maurier Postscript : Daphne du Maurier Frank R. Stockton ‘Walter’ Mrs Mary Braddon Samuel Butler Mark Twain B.L. Farjeon Ouida Thomas Hardy Ambrose Bierce Lewis Wingfield Henry James Bram Stoker Grant Allen Richard Jefferies Robert Louis Stevenson Mrs Humphry Ward.
• Hall Caine Sarah Grand Marie Corelli Lady Florence Dixie Olive Schreiner William Sharp L. Frank Baum H. Rider Haggard Joseph Conrad Ella Hepworth Dixon Mary Cholmondeley Arthur Conan Doyle Postscript : John (Edmund) Gardner Frank Danby George Egerton Kenneth Grahame J.M. Barrie Charlotte Perkins Gilman Postscript : S. Weir Mitchell Amanda Ros Owen Wister Amy Levy Florence L. Barclay O. Henry Violet Hunt Edith Wharton W.J. Locke Thomas Dixon Israel Zangwill M.P. Shiel H.G. Wells Arnold Bennett John Oliver Hobbes Norman Douglas Booth Tarkington Erskine Childers Saki B.M. Bower Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser Zane Grey W. Somerset Maugham John Buchan Edgar Rice Burroughs Sabatini Edgar Wallace Jack London Rex Beach Warwick Deeping Jeffery Farnol E.M. Forster Mazo de la Roche Daisy Ashford Mary Webb James Joyce Virginia Woolf Sax Rohmer Edna Ferber DuBose Heyward D.H. Lawrence H. Bedford-Jones Vicki Baum Raymond Chandler Katherine Mansfield Michael Sadleir Sapper Hervey Allen Enid Bagnold Erle Stanley Gardner Agatha Christie Richmal Crompton Richard Aldington Djuna Barnes Max Brand Pearl S. Buck James M. Cain Captain W.E. Johns Phyllis Bentley Dashiell Hammett Postscript : Lillian Hellman Aldous Huxley J.B. Priestley Henry Williamson Louis Bromfield Peter Cheyney Scott (and Zelda) Fitzgerald Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Heminway William Faulkner Dennis Wheatley Elizabeth Bowen Vladimir Nabokov.
• The Twentieth Century. Margaret Mitchell Lewis Grassic Gibbon Georgette Heyer John Steinbeck Postscript : John Hersey, John O’Hara George Orwell Evelyn Waugh Postscript : Alec Waugh Nathanael West Margery Allingham Graham Greene Patrick Hamilton Christopher Isherwood Henry Green Arthur Koestler Anthony Powell Ayn Rand C.P. Snow Rex Warner Samuel Beckett John Dickson Carr Catherine Cookson Robert E. Howard Jim Thompson Leslie Charteris James A. Michener John Creasey Ian Fleming Louis L’Amour Eric Ambler Chester Himes Malcolm Lowry Postscript : Charles R. Jackson Nicholas Monsarrat William Golding John Cheever Lawrence Durrell Patrick White Howard Fast Saul Bellow Herman Wouk Harold Robbins Anthony Burgess Arthur C. Clarke Muriel Spark Mickey Spillane Postscript : Carroll John Daly Jacqueline Susann Iris Murdoch Frederik Pohl J.D. Salinger Charles Willeford Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury Charles Bukowski Dick Francis P.D. James Paul Scott Patricia Highsmith Kingsley Amis Allistair Maclean Postscript : Robert Shaw Kurt Vonnegut Austin M. Wright V.C. Andrews Norman Mailer Michael Avallone James Baldwin Brian Aldiss Elmore Leonard Flannery O’Connor William Styron John Berger John Fowles Richard Yates Jennifer Dawson Marilyn French Guillermo Cabrera Infante Dan Jacobson Chinua Achebe J.G. Ballard John Barth Harold Brodkey Edna O’Brien Donald Barthelme Toni Morrison Alice Munro.
• Trevanian Beryl Bainbridge Malcolm Bradbury V.S. Naipaul Sylvia Plath John Updike B.S. Johnson William L. Pierce Reynolds Price Philip Roth Wilbur Smith David Storey Alasdair Gray J.G. Farrell Postscript : George MacDonald Fraser David Lodge Alistair MacLeod John Kennedy Toole Margaret Atwood Postscript : Susanna Moodie Jeffrey Archer J.M. Coetzee Postscript : Bret Easton Ellis Michael Crichton Peter Carey W.G. Sebald Vernor Vinge Julian Barnes Sue Townsend Paul Auster Postscript : Lydia Davis and Siri Hustvedt Postscript : Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt Salman Rushdie Stephen King Robert Jordan Ian McEwan Martin Amis and Richard Hughes Patricia Cornwell Alice Sebold Rana Dasgupta.

Subjects:

• English fiction — History and criticism.
• Novelists, English — Biography.
• American fiction — History and criticism.
• Fiction — History and criticism.
• Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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