A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year. UP.
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About the Editors:
Editor Peter Parker is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos and a biography of J.R. Ackersley. Consultant EditorFrank Kermode is a co-editor of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, with John Hollander, and contributes toThe New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Partisan Review.
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