Lives of the novelists : a history of fiction in 294 lives / John Sutherland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- The Seventeenth Century -- 1. John Bunyan -- 2. Aphra Behn -- 3. Daniel Defoe -- 4. Samuel Richardson -- The Eighteenth Century -- 5. Henry Fielding -- 7. Samuel Johnson -- 6. John Cleland -- 8. Laurence Sterne -- 9. Oliver Goldsmith -- 10. Robert Bage -- 11. Olaudah Equiano -- 12. Fanny Burney -- 13. Susanna Haswell -- 14. Mrs Radcliffe -- 15. James Hogg -- 16. Charles Brockden Brown -- 17. Walter Scott -- 18. Jane Austen -- 19. M.G. Lewis -- 20. Mrs Frances Trollope

21. Thomas De Quincey22. James Fenimore Cooper -- 23. John Polidori -- 24. Mary Shelley -- 25. Mrs Catherine Gore -- The Nineteenth Century -- 26. Harriet Martineau -- 27. The Bulwer-Lyttons: Edward and Rosina -- 28. Benjamin Disraeli -- 29. Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 30. Harrison Ainsworth -- 31. Charles (James) Lever -- 32. J.H. Ingraham -- 33. Postscript: Prentiss Ingraham -- 34. Edgar Allan Poe -- 35. Mrs Gaskell -- 36. Fanny Fern -- 37. William Makepeace Thackeray -- 38. Charles Dickens -- 39. Mrs Henry Wood -- 40. Anthony Trollope

41. Grace Aguilar42. The Brontñs: Patrick, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne -- 43. Maria Monk -- 44. George Eliot -- 45. Postscript: G.H. Lewes -- 46. Herman Melville -- 47. Mrs E.D.E.N. Southworth -- 48. Eliza Lynn Linton -- 49. Postscript: Beatrice Harraden -- 50. Sylvanus Cobb Jr -- 51. Charlotte Yonge -- 52. Wilkie Collins -- 53. R.M. Ballantyne -- 54. Mary J. Holmes -- 55. Dinah Craik -- 56. George Meredith -- 57. Mrs Oliphant -- 58. Horatio Alger Jr -- 59. George du Maurier -- 60. Postscript: Daphne du Maurier -- 61. Frank R. Stockton

62. �Walter�63. Mrs Mary Braddon -- 64. Samuel Butler -- 65. Mark Twain -- 66. B.L. Farjeon -- 67. Ouida -- 68. Thomas Hardy -- 69. Ambrose Bierce -- 70. Lewis Wingfield -- 71. Henry James -- 72. Bram Stoker -- 73. Grant Allen -- 74. Richard Jefferies -- 75. Robert Louis Stevenson -- 76. Mrs Humphry Ward -- 77. Hall Caine -- 78. Sarah Grand -- 79. Marie Corelli -- 80. Lady Florence Dixie -- 81. Olive Schreiner -- 82. William Sharp -- 83. L. Frank Baum -- 84. H. Rider Haggard -- 85. Joseph Conrad -- 86. Ella Hepworth Dixon

87. Mary Cholmondeley88. Arthur Conan Doyle -- 89. Postscript: John (Edmund) Gardner -- 90. Frank Danby -- 91. George Egerton -- 92. Kenneth Grahame -- 93. J.M. Barrie -- 94. Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- 95. Postscript: S. Weir Mitchell -- 96. Amanda Ros -- 97. Owen Wister -- 98. Amy Levy -- 99. Florence L. Barclay -- 100. O. Henry -- 101. Violet Hunt -- 102. Edith Wharton -- 103. W.J. Locke -- 104. Thomas Dixon -- 105. Israel Zangwill -- 106. M.P. Shiel -- 107. H.G. Wells -- 108. Arnold Bennett -- 109. John Oliver Hobbes

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.

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