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A Reader's Guide to Fifty British Novels 1600-1900
by Phelps, Gilbert
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0435187511
- ISBN 13
- 9780435187514
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London, England: Heninemann Educational Books, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Former High School Book, with pocket on front endpaper and a few stamps, tag on jacket spine. Otherwise, clean, tight and solid book. Pages quite clean, no markings. Tight, solid and square volume. A wide-ranging survey of Englsh novels, beginning with Nashes' "The Unfortunate Traveller' with the final novel H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds". Between these two, the English novel developed from its Elizabethan beginnings to the Regency and Victorian years. In each of the fifty essays, Phelps gives a brief biographical account, then summarizes the plot, and finally offers a critical commentary. Earlt novels include "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Moll Flanders", "Gulliver's Travels". Authors include Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Walpole, Austen, Brontes, Scott, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, Hardy, and Conrad. 573 pages. 5.4 x 8.2 inches. 1978, Heninemann Educational Books, London, England
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- Title
- A Reader's Guide to Fifty British Novels 1600-1900
- Author
- Phelps, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0435187511
- ISBN 13
- 9780435187514
- Publisher
- Heninemann Educational Books
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- LITERATURE ENGLISH
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- Literature;
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- 0 oz
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