Summary
"In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"-- Full description
- The lost traveller's dream
- Don Quixote /
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Clarissa /
- Samuel Richardson
- Tom Jones /
- Henry Fielding
- Pride and prejudice /
- Jane Austen
- Emma /
- Jane Austen
- Persuasion /
- Jane Austen
- I promessi sposi (the bethrothed) /
- Alessandro Manzoni
- The red and black /
- Stendhal
- The charterhouse of Parma /
- Stendhal
- The vautrin saga: old goriot, lost illusions, the splendor and misery of the courtesans /
- Honoré de Balzac
- The captain's daughter /
- Alexander Pushkin
- Wuthering heights /
- Emily Brontë
- Vanity fair /
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Moby-Dick /
- Herman Melville
- Bleak house /
- Charles Dickens.