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Critical Survey of Long Fiction

Editor: Carl Rollyson, Baruch College,
   City University of New York
ISBN: 978-1-58765-535-7
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 4th Ed.
Table of Contents

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Complete List of Contents
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A
Abe, Kobo
Abrahams, Peter
Achebe, Chinua
Adams, Alice
Adams, Richard
Agee, James
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Aguilera Malta, Demetrio
Aiken, Conrad
Ainsworth, William Harrison
Aksyonov, Vassily
Alain-Fournier
Alas, Leopoldo
Alcott, Louisa May
Aldington, Richard
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Alegría, Ciro
Aleichem, Sholom
Alexie, Sherman
Algren, Nelson
Allende, Isabel
Alvarez, Julia
Amado, Jorge
Amis, Kingsley
Amis, Martin
Anaya, Rudolfo
Anderson, Sherwood
Andric, Ivo
Appelfeld, Aharon
Arenas, Reinaldo
Armah, Ayi Kewi
Arnow, Harriette
Asch, Sholem
Asimov, Isaac
Asturias, Miguel Ángel
Atwood, Margaret
Auchincloss, Louis
Austen, Jane
Auster, Paul
Azuela, Mariano

B
Bainbridge, Beryl
Baldwin, James
Ballard, J. G.
Balzac, Honoré de
Bambara, Toni Cade
Banks, Russell
Banville, John
Barker, Pat
Barnes, Djuna
Barnes, Julian
Baroja, Pío
Barth, John
Barthelme, Donald
Bates, H. E.
Beattie, Ann
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beckett, Samuel
Behn, Aphra
Bellow, Saul
Benet, Juan
Bennett, Arnold
Berger, Thomas
Bernanos, George
Bernhard, Thomas
Berry, Wendell
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente
Bolaño, Roberto
Böll, Heinrich
Bontemps, Arna
Bowen, Elizabeth
Bowles, Paul
Boyle, Kay
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Bradbury, Malcolm
Bradbury, Ray
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Braine, John
Brautigan, Richard
Broch, Hermann
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Brookner, Anita
Brown, Charles Brockden
Brown, Rita Mae
Buchan, John
Buck, Pearl S.
Bukowski, Charles
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Bunyan, John
Burgess, Anthony
Burney, Fanny
Burroughs, William S.
Butler, Octavia E.
Butler, Robert Olen
Butler, Samuel
Butor, Michel
Buzzati, Dino
Byatt, A. S.

C
Cabell, James Branch
Cable, George Washington
Cain, James M.
Caldwell, Erskine
Callaghan, Morley
Calvino, Italo
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Camus, Albert
Canetti, Elias
Cao Xueqin
Capek, Karel
Capote, Truman
Carey, Peter
Carpentier, Alejo
Carroll, Lewis
Carter, Angela
Cary, Joyce
Cather, Willa
Cela, Camilo José
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Cendrars, Blaise
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chabon, Michael
Chandler, Raymond
Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Chateaubriand, François-René de
Chatwin, Bruce
Cheever, John
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
Chesterton, G. K.
Chopin, Kate
Christie, Agatha
Cisneros, Sandra
Clancy, Tom
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
Clarke, Arthur C.
Cliff, Michelle
Cocteau, Jean
Coetzee, J. M.
Colette
Collins, Wilkie
Compton-Burnett, Ivy
Condé, Maryse
Connell, Evan S.
Conrad, Joseph
Conroy, Pat
Cooper, James Fenimore
Coover, Robert
Cormier, Robert
Cortázar, Julio
Cosic, Dobrica
Cozzens, James Gould
Crane, Stephen
Crichton, Michael
Cronin, A. J.
Cunningham, Michael
Cyrano de Bergerac

D
D'Annunzio, Gabriele
Danticat, Edwidge
Daudet, Alphonse
Davies, Robertson
Davis, H. L.
Dazai, Osamu
Defoe, Daniel
De Forest, John William
De la Mare, Walter
Delany, Samuel R.
Deledda, Grazia
Delibes, Miguel
DeLillo, Don
Desai, Anita
De Vries, Peter
Dick, Philip K.
Dickens, Charles
Dickey, James
Diderot, Denis
Didion, Joan
Dillard, Annie
Döblin, Alfred
Doctorow, E. L.
Doderer, Heimito von
Doerr, Harriet
Donleavy, J. P.
Donoso, José
Dorfman, Ariel
Dos Passos, John
Dostoevski, Fyodor
Douglas, Ellen
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Doyle, Roddy
Drabble, Margaret
Dreiser, Theodore
Dumas, Alexandre, père
Du Maurier, Daphne
Dunne, John Gregory
Duras, Marguerite
D'Urfé, Honoré
Durrell, Lawrence

E
Eça de Queirós, José Maria de
Eco, Umberto
Edgeworth, Maria
Eliot, George
Elkin, Stanley
Ellison, Ralph
Emecheta, Buchi
Endo, Shusaku
Erdrich, Louise
Everett, Percival

F
Farrell, J. G.
Farrell, James T.
Faulkner, William
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
Ferber, Edna
Fielding, Gabriel
Fielding, Henry
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flanagan, Richard
Flaubert, Gustave
Follett, Ken
Fontane, Theodor
Foote, Shelby
Ford, Ford Madox
Ford, Richard
Forster, E. M.
Forsyth, Frederick
Fowles, John
Frame, Janet
France, Anatole
Franzen, Jonathan
Frederic, Harold
Frisch, Max
Fuentes, Carlos

G
Gadda, Carlo Emilio
Gaddis, William
Gaines, Ernest J.
Gallant, Mavis
Galsworthy, John
García, Cristina
García Márquez, Gabriel
Gardner, John
Garland, Hamlin
Garrett, George
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Gass, William H.
Genet, Jean
Gibbons, Kaye
Gibson, William
Gide, André
Ginzburg, Natalia
Giono, Jean
Gironella, José María
Gissing, George
Glasgow, Ellen
Godden, Rumer
Godwin, Gail
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gogol, Nikolai
Golding, William
Goldsmith, Oliver
Gombrowicz, Witold
Goncharov, Ivan
Goncourt, Edmond de, and Jules de Goncourt
Gonzalez, N. V. M.
Goodman, Paul
Gordimer, Nadine
Gordon, Caroline
Gordon, Mary
Gorky, Maxim
Grass, Günter
Grau, Shirley Ann
Graves, Robert
Gray, Alasdair
Green, Henry
Green, Julien
Greene, Graham
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von
Grisham, John
Grove, Frederick Philip

H
Hagedorn, Jessica
Hall, Radclyffe
Hamilton, Jane
Hammett, Dashiell
Hamsun, Knut
Handke, Peter
Hanley, James
Hannah, Barry
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Wilson
Harrison, Jim
Hartley, L. P.
Hasek, Jaroslav
Hauge, Alfred
Hawkes, John
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Head, Bessie
Hébert, Anne
Hegi, Ursula
Heidenstam, Verner von
Heinlein, Robert A.
Heller, Joseph
Helprin, Mark
Hemingway, Ernest
Herbert, Frank
Hersey, John
Hesse, Hermann
Highsmith, Patricia
Highwater, Jamake
Hijuelos, Oscar
Himes, Chester
Hinojosa, Rolando
Hinton, S. E.
Hoagland, Edward
Hoffman, Alice
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
Horgan, Paul
Hornby, Nick
Hosseini, Khaled
Howells, William Dean
Hudson, W. H.
Hugo, Victor
Hurston, Zora Neale
Huxley, Aldous
Huysmans, Joris-Karl

I
Irving, John
Ishiguro, Kazuo

J
James, Henry
James, P. D.
Jean Paul
Jen, Gish
Jensen, Johannes V.
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, Diane
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Uwe
Jolley, Elizabeth
Jones, James
Jones, Madison
Joyce, James

K
Kadare, Ismail
Kadohata, Cynthia
Kafka, Franz
Kavan, Anna
Kawabata, Yasunari
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Keillor, Garrison
Keller, Gottfried
Kelley, William Melvin
Kemal, Yashar
Keneally, Thomas
Kennedy, William
Kerouac, Jack
Kesey, Ken
Kincaid, Jamaica
King, Stephen
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kipling, Rudyard
Kis, Danilo
Kleist, Heinrich von
Knowles, John
Koestler, Arthur
Konwicki, Tadeusz
Kosinski, Jerzy
Kundera, Milan

L
La Fayette, Madame de
Lagerkvist, Pär
Lagerlöf, Selma
L'Amour, Louis
Larsen, Nella
Laurence, Margaret
Law-Yone, Wendy
Lawrence, D. H.
Laxness, Halldór
Le Carré, John
Lee, Harper
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lehmann, Rosamond
Lem, Stanislaw
Leonard, Elmore
Lermontov, Mikhail
Lesage, Alain-René
Lessing, Doris
Levi, Primo
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Wyndham
Lispector, Clarice
Lively, Penelope
Lodge, David
London, Jack
Lovelace, Earl
Lowry, Malcolm
Ludlum, Robert
Lurie, Alison

M
Macaulay, Rose
McCarthy, Cormac
McCarthy, Mary
McCullers, Carson
McDermott, Alice
Macdonald, Ross
McElroy, Joseph
McEwan, Ian
McGinley, Patrick
McGuane, Thomas
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
McKay, Claude
MacLennan, Hugh
McMillan, Terry
McMurtry, Larry
Madden, David
Mahfouz, Naguib
Mailer, Norman
Malamud, Bernard
Mallea, Eduardo
Malory, Sir Thomas
Malouf, David
Malraux, André
Mann, Thomas
Manzoni, Alessandro
Marivaux
Marquand, John P.
Marshall, Paule
Martin du Gard, Roger
Matthiessen, Peter
Maturin, Charles Robert
Maugham, W. Somerset
Mauriac, François
Maxwell, William
Melville, Herman
Meredith, George
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry
Mérimée, Prosper
Michener, James A.
Miller, Henry
Miller, Sue
Min, Anchee
Mishima, Yukio
Mistry, Rohinton
Moore, Brian
Moore, George
Moravia, Alberto
Morris, Wright
Morrison, Toni
Mosley, Walter
Mukherjee, Bharati
Murakami, Haruki
Murasaki Shikibu
Murdoch, Iris
Musil, Robert
Myers, Walter Dean

N
Nabokov, Vladimir
Naipaul, V. S.
Narayan, R. K.
Naylor, Gloria
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Nin, Anaïs
Norris, Frank

O
Oates, Joyce Carol
O'Brien, Edna
O'Brien, Flann
O'Brien, Kate
O'Brien, Tim
O'Connor, Flannery
Oe, Kenzaburo
O'Hara, John
Ondaatje, Michael
Onetti, Juan Carlos
Orwell, George
Oz, Amos
Ozick, Cynthia

P
Pardo Bazán, Emilia
Pasternak, Boris
Patchett, Ann
Pater, Walter
Paton, Alan
Paulsen, Gary
Pavese, Cesare
Peacock, Thomas Love
Percy, Walker
Pérez de Ayala, Ramón
Pérez Galdós, Benito
Phillips, Jayne Anne
Pinget, Robert
Pirandello, Luigi
Plante, David
Porter, Katherine Anne
Potok, Chaim
Powell, Anthony
Powell, Dawn
Powers, J. F.
Powers, Richard
Prévost, Abbé
Price, Reynolds
Priestley, J. B.
Pritchett, V. S.
Prokosch, Frederic
Prose, Francine
Proulx, E. Annie
Proust, Marcel
Puig, Manuel
Purdy, James
Pushkin, Alexander
Pym, Barbara
Pynchon, Thomas

Q
Queneau, Raymond

R
Raabe, Wilhelm
Rabelais, François
Radcliffe, Ann
Rand, Ayn
Rao, Raja
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Reed, Ishmael
Remarque, Erich Maria
Renault, Mary
Reymont, Wladyslaw
Rhys, Jean
Rice, Anne
Richardson, Dorothy
Richardson, Samuel
Richler, Mordecai
Richter, Conrad
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox
Robinson, Marilynne
Rolland, Romain
Romains, Jules
Ross, Sinclair
Roth, Henry
Roth, Joseph
Roth, Philip
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowling, J. K.
Rowson, Susanna
Roy, Gabrielle
Rushdie, Salman
Russo, Richard

S
Sábato, Ernesto
Sagan, Françoise
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Salinger, J. D.
Salter, James
Sand, George
Saramago, José
Saroyan, William
Sarraute, Nathalie
Sarton, May
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Sciascia, Leonardo
Scott, Sir Walter
Sebald, W. G.
Seghers, Anna
Sembène, Ousmane
Sender, Ramón José
Settle, Mary Lee
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Shields, Carol
Sholokhov, Mikhail
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Sillanpää, Frans Eemil
Sillitoe, Alan
Silone, Ignazio
Simenon, Georges
Simms, William Gilmore
Simon, Claude
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Sinyavsky, Andrei
Skvorecky, Josef
Smiley, Jane
Smith, Zadie
Smollett, Tobias
Snow, C. P.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Sontag, Susan
Soyinka, Wole
Spark, Muriel
Stead, Christina
Stegner, Wallace
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Stendhal
Stern, Richard G.
Sterne, Laurence
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stifter, Adalbert
Stone, Robert
Storey, David
Storm, Theodor
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strindberg, August
Stuart, Jesse
Sturgeon, Theodore
Styron, William
Svevo, Italo
Swift, Graham
Swift, Jonathan

T
Tan, Amy
Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro
Tarkington, Booth
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Theroux, Paul
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Tournier, Michel
Tremain, Rose
Trevor, William
Trollope, Anthony
Turgenev, Ivan
Turow, Scott
Tutuola, Amos
Twain, Mark
Tyler, Anne

U
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de
Undset, Sigrid
Updike, John
Uris, Leon

V
Valera, Juan
Valle-Inclán, Ramón María del
Van Vechten, Carl
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Verga, Giovanni
Verne, Jules
Vidal, Gore
Vittorini, Elio
Voltaire
Vonnegut, Kurt

W
Wain, John
Walker, Alice
Wallace, David Foster
Wallant, Edward Lewis
Wambaugh, Joseph
Warren, Robert Penn
Waters, Frank
Waugh, Evelyn
Weldon, Fay
Wells, H. G.
Welty, Eudora
Werfel, Franz
Wescott, Glenway
West, Nathanael
West, Paul
West, Rebecca
Wharton, Edith
White, Patrick
White, T. H.
Whitehead, Colson
Wideman, John Edgar
Wiesel, Elie
Wiggins, Marianne
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, John A.
Wilson, A. N.
Wilson, Angus
Wilson, Ethel
Winterson, Jeanette
Wodehouse, P. G.
Woiwode, Larry
Wolf, Christa
Wolfe, Thomas
Wolfe, Tom
Woolf, Virginia
Wouk, Herman
Wright, Richard
Wu Chengen
Wu Jingzi

XYZ
Yehoshua, A. B.
Yerby, Frank
Yglesias, José
Young, Al
Yourcenar, Marguerite
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Zola, Émile

TOPICAL ESSAYS
Long Fiction in History
Long Fiction in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Origins and Development of the Novel Before 1740
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980
Postcolonial Long Fiction
Contemporary Long Fiction

World Long Fiction
African Long Fiction
Australian Novel, The
Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian)
Chinese Long Fiction
English Novel, The
European Novel, The
French Long Fiction to the 1850's
French Long Fiction Since the 1850's
German Long Fiction to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
German Long Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to World War I
German Long Fiction Since World War I
Irish Long Fiction
Italian Long Fiction
Japanese Long Fiction
Latin American Long Fiction
Middle Eastern Novel, The
Russian Long Fiction
Scandinavian Long Fiction
South Asian Long Fiction
Spanish Long Fiction

North American Long Fiction
African American Long Fiction
American Novel, The
Asian American Long Fiction
Canadian Long Fiction
Caribbean Novel, The
Euro-American Immigrant Experience in Long Fiction, The
Jewish American Long Fiction
Latino Long Fiction
Native American Long Fiction
Southern Novel, The
Western Novel, The

Genre Overviews
Academic Novel, The
Bildungsroman, The
Detective Novel, The
Epistolary Novel, The
Espionage Novel, The
Experimental Long Fiction
Fantasy Novel, The
Feminist Long Fiction
Gay and Lesbian Long Fiction
Gothic Novel, The
Historical Novel, The
Horror Novel, The
Legal Novel, The
Modern Novel, The
Naturalistic Long Fiction
Novella, The
Picaresque Novel, The
Political Novel, The
Postmodern Novel, The
Psychological Long Fiction
Science-Fiction Novel, The
Self-Reflexive Long Fiction
Sports Long Fiction
Young Adult Long Fiction

Resources
Bibliography
Guide to Online Resources
Glossary of Literary Terms
Major Awards
Time Line
Chronological List of Authors

Indexes
Geographical Index of Authors and Essays
Categorized Index of Authors
Subject Index


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