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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 2d Rev. Ed.
Table of Contents

Publisher's Noteix
Contributorsxi
List of Genresxv
Introductionxix

A
Achebe, Chinua, 1
Adams, Richard, 14
Agee, James, 18
Aiken, Conrad, 23
Alcott, Louisa May, 31
Algren, Nelson, 36
Allende, Isabel, 43
Amado, Jorge, 47
Amis, Kingsley, 54
Amis, Martin, 67
Anaya, Rudolfo A., 73
Anderson, Sherwood, 76
Andrić, Ivo, 84
Armah, Ayi Kwei, 94
Asch, Sholem, 104
Asimov, Isaac, 110
Asturias, Miguel Ángel, 115
Atwood, Margaret, 122
Auchincloss, Louis, 130
Austen, Jane, 140
Auster, Paul, 150
Azuela, Mariano, 154

B
Baldwin, James, 159
Ballard, J. G., 171
Balzac, Honoré de, 179
Bambara, Toni Cade, 189
Banville, John, 193
Barnes, Julian, 201
Barth, John, 207
Barthelme, Donald, 219
Beattie, Ann, 223
Beauvoir, Simone de, 228
Beckett, Samuel, 235
Behn, Aphra, 244
Bellow, Saul, 249
Bennett, Arnold, 261
Berger, Thomas, 270
Berry, Wendell, 280
Böll, Heinrich, 285
Bontemps, Arna, 294
Bowen, Elizabeth, 298
Bowles, Paul, 304
Boyle, Kay, 311
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 321
Bradbury, Ray, 327
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 336
Brautigan, Richard, 340
Brontë, Charlotte, 344
Brontë, Emily, 352
Brookner, Anita, 357
Brown, Charles Brockden, 364
Brown, Rita Mae, 374
Buchan, John, 377
Buck, Pearl S., 386
Bunyan, John, 393
Burgess, Anthony, 398
Burney, Fanny, 406
Burroughs, William S., 413
Butler, Octavia E., 421
Butler, Robert Olen, 427
Butler, Samuel, 431

C
Cabell, James Branch, 438
Cable, George Washington, 445
Cain, James M., 452
Caldwell, Erskine, 456
Callaghan, Morley, 462
Calvino, Italo, 471
Campbell, Bebe Moore, 485
Camus, Albert, 489
Canetti, Elias, 500
Čapek, Karel, 505
Capote, Truman, 511
Carpentier, Alejo, 519
Carroll, Lewis, 526
Carter, Angela, 530
Cary, Joyce, 537
Cather, Willa, 546
Cela, Camilo José, 555
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 565
Cervantes, Miguel de, 574
Chandler, Raymond, 581
Chase-Riboud, Barbara, 592
Chateaubriand, François René de, 596
Chatwin, Bruce, 603
Cheever, John, 607
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 618
Chesterton, G. K., 625
Chopin, Kate, 630
Christie, Agatha, 638
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 646
Clarke, Arthur C., 653
Cocteau, Jean, 658
Coetzee, J. M., 665
Colette, 672
Collins, Wilkie, 679
Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 687
Connell, Evan S., Jr., 694
Conrad, Joseph, 702
Cooper, James Fenimore, 715
Coover, Robert, 726
Cortázar, Julio, 735
Cozzens, James Gould, 743
Crane, Stephen, 752
Cronin, A. J., 759
Cyrano de Bergerac, 770

D
Davies, Robertson, 778
Defoe, Daniel, 785
De Forest, John William, 796
De la Mare, Walter, 803
Delany, Samuel R., 808
DeLillo, Don, 818
Desai, Anita, 826
De Vries, Peter, 834
Dick, Philip K., 841
Dickens, Charles, 848
Dickey, James, 858
Diderot, Denis, 863
Didion, Joan, 872
Döblin, Alfred, 881
Doctorow, E. L., 891
Doerr, Harriet, 898
Donleavy, J. P., 902
Donoso, José, 909
Dos Passos, John, 919
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 926
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 938
Drabble, Margaret, 948
Dreiser, Theodore, 960
Dumas, Alexandre, père, 969
Du Maurier, Daphne, 979
Dunne, John Gregory, 983
Duras, Marguerite, 987
Durrell, Lawrence, 995

E
Edgeworth, Maria, 1003
Eliot, George, 1012
Elkin, Stanley, 1023
Ellison, Ralph, 1029
Erdrich, Louise, 1037

F
Farrell, James T., 1045
Faulkner, William, 1051
Fauset, Jessie Redmon, 1068
Ferber, Edna, 1072
Fielding, Gabriel, 1076
Fielding, Henry, 1081
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1092
Flaubert, Gustave, 1103
Fontane, Theodor, 1111
Ford, Ford Madox, 1118
Ford, Richard, 1125
Forster, E. M., 1131
Fowles, John, 1143
France, Anatole, 1155
Frederic, Harold, 1163
Fuentes, Carlos, 1171

G
Gaddis, William, 1180
Gaines, Ernest J., 1188
Galsworthy, John, 1196
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1203
Gardner, John, 1211
Garland, Hamlin, 1224
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 1230
Gass, William H., 1238
Genet, Jean, 1243
Gide, André, 1253
Giono, Jean, 1265
Gissing, George, 1271
Glasgow, Ellen, 1277
Godwin, Gail, 1284
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1293
Gogol, Nikolai, 1304
Golding, William, 1312
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1321
Gombrowicz, Witold, 1325
Gonzalez, N. V. M., 1330
Goodman, Paul, 1335
Gordimer, Nadine, 1344
Gordon, Caroline, 1357
Gordon, Mary, 1364
Gorky, Maxim, 1369
Grass, Günter, 1375
Grau, Shirley Ann, 1384
Graves, Robert, 1393
Green, Henry, 1403
Greene, Graham, 1409
Grisham, John, 1417

H
Hammett, Dashiell, 1421
Hamsun, Knut, 1429
Handke, Peter, 1438
Hannah, Barry, 1449
Hardy, Thomas, 1456
Harris, Wilson, 1470
Harrison, Jim, 1478
Hartley, L. P., 1491
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1497
Heller, Joseph, 1508
Helprin, Mark, 1516
Hemingway, Ernest, 1521
Hersey, John, 1530
Hesse, Hermann, 1536
Highsmith, Patricia, 1545
Highwater, Jamake, 1549
Hijuelos, Oscar, 1557
Himes, Chester, 1561
Hinojosa, Rolando, 1565
Hoagland, Edward, 1569
Horgan, Paul, 1574
Howells, William Dean, 1580
Hudson, W. H., 1589
Hugo, Victor, 1595
Hurston, Zora Neale, 1605
Huxley, Aldous, 1612

I
Irving, John, 1623

J
James, Henry, 1636
James, P. D., 1648
Jensen, Johannes V., 1655
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1660
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1669
Johnson, Charles, 1676
Johnson, Samuel, 1684
Jolley, Elizabeth, 1692
Jones, James, 1698
Joyce, James, 1706

K
Kafka, Franz, 1716
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1724
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 1731
Kelley, William Melvin, 1737
Kemal, Yashar, 1742
Keneally, Thomas, 1748
Kennedy, William, 1756
Kerouac, Jack, 1763
Kesey, Ken, 1771
Kincaid, Jamaica, 1780
King, Stephen, 1784
Kingsolver, Barbara, 1797
Kipling, Rudyard, 1802
Knowles, John, 1809
Koestler, Arthur, 1813
Kosinski, Jerzy, 1820
Kundera, Milan, 1828

L
Lagerkvist, Pär, 1836
Lagerlöf, Selma, 1844
L'Amour, Louis, 1853
Laurence, Margaret, 1861
Lawrence, D. H., 1868
Le Carré, John, 1889
Lee, Harper, 1900
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1904
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1911
Lehmann, Rosamond, 1920
Lem, Stanisław, 1926
Leonard, Elmore, 1937
Lessing, Doris, 1943
Levi, Primo, 1952
Lewis, C. S., 1956
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1964
Lewis, Sinclair, 1971
Lewis, Wyndham, 1981
Lispector, Clarice, 1988
Lively, Penelope, 1993
Lodge, David, 1997
London, Jack, 2005
Lowry, Malcolm, 2011
Lurie, Alison, 2021

M
Macaulay, Rose, 2030
McCarthy, Cormac, 2035
McCarthy, Mary, 2040
McCullers, Carson, 2046
Macdonald, Ross, 2054
McElroy, Joseph, 2062
McGinley, Patrick, 2069
McGuane, Thomas, 2075
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, 2082
MacLennan, Hugh, 2090
McMurtry, Larry, 2099
Madden, David, 2107
Mahfouz, Naguib, 2117
Mailer, Norman, 2121
Malamud, Bernard, 2137
Mallea, Eduardo, 2146
Malory, Sir Thomas, 2154
Malouf, David, 2160
Malraux, André, 2167
Mann, Thomas, 2174
Manzoni, Alessandro, 2186
Marshall, Paule, 2192
Martin du Gard, Roger, 2197
Matthiessen, Peter, 2205
Maturin, Charles Robert, 2216
Maugham, W. Somerset, 2223
Melville, Herman, 2230
Meredith, George, 2237
Michener, James A., 2245
Miller, Henry, 2253
Mishima, Yukio, 2260
Moore, Brian, 2265
Moore, George, 2275
Moravia, Alberto, 2282
Morris, Wright, 2292
Morrison, Toni, 2300
Murdoch, Iris, 2310

N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 2328
Naipaul, V. S., 2335
Narayan, R. K., 2344
Naylor, Gloria, 2350
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 2357
Nin, Anaïs, 2367
Norris, Frank, 2376

O
Oates, Joyce Carol, 2384
O'Brien, Edna, 2392
O'Brien, Flann, 2399
O'Brien, Kate, 2406
O'Brien, Tim, 2411
O'Connor, Flannery, 2415
Ōe, Kenzaburō, 2421
O'Hara, John, 2432
Ondaatje, Michael, 2442
Orwell, George, 2446
Ozick, Cynthia, 2454

P
Pasternak, Boris, 2459
Pater, Walter, 2466
Paton, Alan, 2475
Pavese, Cesare, 2480
Peacock, Thomas Love, 2488
Percy, Walker, 2496
Pérez Galdós, Benito, 2507
Pirandello, Luigi, 2523
Plante, David, 2533
Porter, Katherine Anne, 2539
Potok, Chaim, 2546
Powell, Anthony, 2554
Powell, Dawn, 2565
Powers, J. F., 2570
Price, Reynolds, 2577
Priestley, J. B., 2585
Pritchett, V. S., 2593
Prokosch, Frederic, 2602
Proust, Marcel, 2609
Puig, Manuel, 2628
Purdy, James, 2636
Pushkin, Alexander, 2644
Pym, Barbara, 2654
Pynchon, Thomas, 2661

Q

R
Rabelais, François, 2671
Radcliffe, Ann, 2676
Rand, Ayn, 2684
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 2688
Reed, Ishmael, 2692
Remarque, Erich Maria, 2700
Renault, Mary, 2707
Rhys, Jean, 2713
Rice, Anne, 2719
Richardson, Dorothy, 2723
Richardson, Samuel, 2730
Richler, Mordecai, 2738
Richter, Conrad, 2746
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 2754
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 2763
Rolland, Romain, 2771
Roth, Henry, 2778
Roth, Philip, 2782
Rowson, Susanna, 2791
Rushdie, Salman, 2799

S
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 2810
Salinger, J. D., 2815
Sand, George, 2822
Saroyan, William, 2831
Sarton, May, 2840
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 2848
Sayers, Dorothy L., 2855
Scott, Sir Walter, 2863
Settle, Mary Lee, 2878
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 2886
Sholokhov, Mikhail, 2895
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 2901
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 2911
Silone, Ignazio, 2915
Simenon, Georges, 2922
Simms, William Gilmore, 2931
Simon, Claude, 2940
Sinclair, Upton, 2950
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 2959
Škvorecký, Josef, 2971
Smiley, Jane, 2975
Smollett, Tobias, 2979
Snow, C. P., 2987
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 2996
Soyinka, Wole, 3006
Spark, Muriel, 3013
Stead, Christina, 3025
Stegner, Wallace, 3031
Stein, Gertrude, 3038
Steinbeck, John, 3048
Stendhal, 3056
Sterne, Laurence, 3069
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 3080
Stone, Robert, 3087
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 3093
Strindberg, August, 3103
Stuart, Jesse, 3113
Sturgeon, Theodore, 3121
Styron, William, 3128
Swift, Jonathan, 3140

T
Tan, Amy, 3147
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 3151
Tarkington, Booth, 3157
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 3162
Theroux, Paul, 3172
Tolkien, J. R. R. , 3179
Tolstoy, Leo, 3190
Trevor, William, 3198
Trollope, Anthony, 3202
Turgenev, Ivan, 3211
Turow, Scott F., 3220
Tutuola, Amos, 3224
Twain, Mark, 3230
Tyler, Anne, 3238

U
Undset, Sigrid, 3252
Updike, John, 3258

V
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 3270
Verga, Giovanni, 3279
Verne, Jules, 3287
Vidal, Gore, 3296
Voltaire, 3304
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 3315

W
Wain, John, 3325
Walker, Alice, 3335
Wallace, David Foster, 3344
Wallant, Edward Lewis, 3348
Wambaugh, Joseph, 3354
Warren, Robert Penn, 3360
Waters, Frank, 3370
Waugh, Evelyn, 3378
Weldon, Fay, 3387
Wells, H. G., 3393
Welty, Eudora, 3400
Werfel, Franz, 3409
Wescott, Glenway, 3416
West, Nathanael, 3423
West, Paul, 3429
West, Rebecca, 3437
Wharton, Edith, 3442
White, Patrick, 3451
White, T. H., 3462
Wideman, John Edgar, 3467
Wiesel, Elie, 3475
Wilde, Oscar, 3487
Wilder, Thornton, 3491
Williams, John A., 3498
Wilson, A. N., 3502
Wilson, Angus, 3508
Wilson, Ethel, 3516
Wodehouse, P. G., 3523
Woiwode, Larry, 3531
Wolf, Christa, 3537
Wolfe, Thomas, 3546
Wolfe, Tom, 3556
Woolf, Virginia, 3559
Wouk, Herman, 3575
Wright, Richard, 3588

X

Y
Yerby, Frank, 3597
Young, Al, 3603
Yourcenar, Marguerite, 3611

Z
Zola, Émile, 3622

LONG FICTION IN HISTORY
Long Fiction in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 3635
Origins and Development of the Novel Before 1740, 3651
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890, 3659
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980, 3677
Postcolonial Long Fiction, 3696
Contemporary Long Fiction, 3703

WORLD LONG FICTION
African Long Fiction, 3723
The Australian Novel, 3745
Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction, 3750
Chinese Long Fiction, 3767
The English Novel, 3788
The European Novel, 3801
French Long Fiction to the 1850's, 3812
French Long Fiction Since the 1850's, 3827
German Long Fiction to World War I, 3841
German Long Fiction Since World War I, 3872
Irish Long Fiction, 3889
Italian Long Fiction, 3895
Japanese Long Fiction, 3920
Latin American Long Fiction, 3938
The Middle Eastern Novel, 3954
Russian Long Fiction, 3964
Scandinavian Long Fiction, 3986
South Asian Long Fiction, 4017
Spanish Long Fiction, 4031

NORTH AMERICAN LONG FICTION
African American Long Fiction, 4053
The American Novel, 4063
Asian American Long Fiction, 4070
Canadian Long Fiction, 4076
The Caribbean Novel, 4085
The Euro-American Immigrant Experience in Long Fiction, 4092
Jewish American Long Fiction, 4097
Latino Long Fiction, 4104
Native American Long Fiction, 4109
The Southern Novel, 4113
The Western Novel, 4117

GENRE OVERVIEWS
The Bildungsroman, 4127
The Detective Novel, 4136
The Epistolary Novel, 4144
Experimental Long Fiction, 4155
The Fantasy Novel, 4161
Feminist Long Fiction, 4168
Gay and Lesbian Long Fiction, 4173
The Gothic Novel, 4178
The Historical Novel, 4188
The Horror Novel, 4195
Naturalistic Long Fiction, 4199
The Novella, 4204
The Picaresque Novel, 4211
Psychological Long Fiction, 4219
The Science-Fiction Novel, 4224
Self-Reflexive Long Fiction, 4230
Glossary of Literary Terms, 4237
Chronological List of Authors, 4246
Geographical List of Authors and Essays, 4252
Categorized List of Authors, 4257

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