Rough Guide to Classic Novels, The

✍ Scribed by Mason, Simon

• Publisher: Rough Guides
• Year: 2008;2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Series: Rough Guide Reference
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world’s greatest novels are covered, fromQuixote(1614) to Orhan Pamuk’sSnow(2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors – and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations of the best editions and translations for every genre from the most enticing crime and punishment to love, sex, heroes and anti-heroes, not to mention all the classics of comedy and satire, horror and mystery and many other literary genres. With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you’ll ever need.

✦ Table of Contents

00 prelims.pdf......Page 3
01 love romance sex.pdf......Page 11
02 families.pdf......Page 57
03 Rites NEW.pdf......Page 87
04 Heroes.pdf......Page 113
05 Making It.pdf......Page 143
06 Adventure.pdf......Page 175
07 War.pdf......Page 195
08 sense of place.pdf......Page 237
09 incredible worlds.pdf......Page 275
10 horror and mystery.pdf......Page 297
11 crime and punishment.pdf......Page 313
12 comedy and satire.pdf......Page 341

✦ Subjects

Nonfiction;Writing;Books About Books;Reference;Literature;Classics;Criticism;Literary Criticism;Language;How To