Norton Introduction to the Short Novel

by Jerome Beaty (Editor)

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Designed with the undergraduate in mind, theanthology includes a helpful introduction by Professor Beaty thatdefines the short novel in contrast to the short story and the longernovel and explores the formal and thematic corollaries of thisparticular literary form.  Additionally, a short biographical headnoteprecedes each selection to prepare the reader to experience,appreciate, and understand the works as fully as possible during afirst reading. A brief critical afterword follows each novel.

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Jerome Beaty
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Conrad, Joseph (Contributor)
Faulkner, William (Contributor)
García Márquez, Gabriel (Contributor)
James, Henry (Contributor)
Kafka, Franz (Contributor)
Lawrence, D.H. (Contributor)
Porter, Katherine Anne (Contributor)
Roth, Philip (Contributor)

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Chopin, Kate (Contributor)
Delillo, Don (Contributor)
Joyce, James (Contributor)
Lessing, Doris (Contributor)
Morrison, Toni (Contributor)
Munro, Alice (Contributor)
Stevenson, Robert Louis (Contributor)
Tolstoy, Leo (Contributor)
Toomer, Jean (Contributor)
Wharton, Edith (Contributor)

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Norton Introduction to the Short Novel
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Norton Introduction to the Short Novel
Original publication date
1982

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
808.83 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections Collections of fiction
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PN6120.2 .N63 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature
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