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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition

Table of Contents

Table of Contents: Critical Survey of Long Fiction




Bibliography




Guide to Online Resources




Glossary of Literary Terms




Major Awards




Time Line




Chronological List of Authors




Geographical Index of Authors and Essays




Categorized Index of Authors




Kōbō Abe




Peter Abrahams




Chinua Achebe




Alice Adams




Richard Adams




James Agee




Shmuel Yosef Agnon




Demetrio Aguilera Malta




Conrad Aiken




William Harrison Ainsworth




Vassily Aksyonov




Alain-Fournier




Leopoldo Alas




Louisa May Alcott




Richard Aldington




Thomas Bailey Aldrich




Ciro Alegría




Sholom Aleichem




Sherman Alexie




Nelson Algren




Isabel Allende




Julia Alvarez




Jorge Amado




Kingsley Amis




Martin Amis




Rudolfo Anaya




Sherwood Anderson




Ivo Andrić




Aharon Appelfeld




Reinaldo Arenas




Ayi Kwei Armah




Harriette Arnow




Sholem Asch




Isaac Asimov




Miguel Ángel Asturias




Margaret Atwood




Louis Auchincloss




Jane Austen




Paul Auster




Mariano Azuela




Beryl Bainbridge




James Baldwin




J. G. Ballard




Honoré de Balzac




Toni Cade Bambara




Russell Banks




John Banville




Pat Barker




Djuna Barnes




Julian Barnes




Pío Baroja




John Barth




Donald Barthelme




H. E. Bates




Ann Beattie




Simone de Beauvoir




Samuel Beckett




Aphra Behn




Saul Bellow




Juan Benet




Arnold Bennett




Thomas Berger




Georges Bernanos




Thomas Bernhard




Wendell Berry




Vicente Blasco Ibáñez




Roberto Bolaño




Heinrich Böll




Arna Bontemps




Elizabeth Bowen




Paul Bowles




Kay Boyle




T. Coraghessan Boyle




Malcolm Bradbury




Ray Bradbury




Marion Zimmer Bradley




John Braine




Richard Brautigan




Hermann Broch




Charlotte Brontë




Emily Brontë




Anita Brookner




Charles Brockden Brown




Rita Mae Brown




John Buchan




Pearl S. Buck




Charles Bukowski




Mikhail Bulgakov




John Bunyan




Anthony Burgess




Fanny Burney




William S. Burroughs




Octavia E. Butler




Robert Olen Butler




Samuel Butler




Michel Butor




Dino Buzzati




A. S. Byatt




James Branch Cabell




George Washington Cable




James M. Cain




Erskine Caldwell




Morley Callaghan




Italo Calvino




Bebe Moore Campbell




Albert Camus




Elias Canetti




Cao Xueqin




Karel Čapek




Truman Capote




Peter Carey




Alejo Carpentier




Lewis Carroll




Angela Carter




Joyce Cary




Willa Cather




Camilo José Cela




Louis-Ferdinand Céline




Blaise Cendrars




Miguel de Cervantes




Michael Chabon




Raymond Chandler




Barbara Chase-Riboud




François-René de Chateaubriand




Bruce Chatwin




John Cheever




Charles Waddell Chesnutt




G. K. Chesterton




Kate Chopin




Agatha Christie




Sandra Cisneros




Tom Clancy




Walter Van Tilburg Clark




Arthur C. Clarke




Michelle Cliff




Jean Cocteau




J. M. Coetzee




Colette




Wilkie Collins




Ivy Compton-Burnett




Maryse Condé




Evan S. Connell




Joseph Conrad




Pat Conroy




James Fenimore Cooper




Robert Coover




Robert Cormier




Julio Cortázar




Dobrica Ćosić




James Gould Cozzens




Stephen Crane




Michael Crichton




A. J. Cronin




Michael Cunningham




Cyrano de Bergerac




Gabriele D’Annunzio




Edwidge Danticat




Alphonse Daudet




Robertson Davies




H. L. Davis




Osamu Dazai




Daniel Defoe




John William De Forest




Walter de la Mare




Samuel R. Delany




Grazia Deledda




Miguel Delibes




Don DeLillo




Anita Desai




Peter De Vries




Philip K. Dick




Charles Dickens




James Dickey




Denis Diderot




Joan Didion




Annie Dillard




Alfred Döblin




E. L. Doctorow




Heimito von Doderer




Harriet Doerr




J. P. Donleavy




José Donoso




Ariel Dorfman




John Dos Passos




Fyodor Dostoevski




Ellen Douglas




Arthur Conan Doyle




Roddy Doyle




Margaret Drabble




Theodore Dreiser




Alexandre Dumas, Père




Daphne du Maurier




John Gregory Dunne




Marguerite Duras




Lawrence Durrell




José Maria de Eça de Queirós




Umberto Eco




Maria Edgeworth




George Eliot




Stanley Elkin




Ralph Ellison




Buchi Emecheta




Shūsajy Endō




Louise Erdrich




Percival Everett




J. G. Farrell




James T. Farrell




William Faulkner




Jessie Redmon Fauset




Edna Ferber




Gabriel Fielding




Henry Fielding




F. Scott Fitzgerald




Richard Flanagan




Gustave Flaubert




Ken Follett




Theodor Fontane




Shelby Foote




Ford Madox Ford




Richard Ford




E. M. Forster




Frederick Forsyth




John Fowles




Janet Frame




Anatole France




Jonathan Franzen




Harold Frederic




Max Frisch




Carlos Fuentes




Carlo Emilio Gadda




William Gaddis




Ernest J. Gaines




Mavis Gallant




John Galsworthy




Cristina García




Gabriel García Márquez




John Gardner




Hamlin Garland




George Garrett




Elizabeth Gaskell




William H. Gass




Jean Genet




Kaye Gibbons




William Gibson




André Gide




Natalia Ginzburg




Jean Giono




José María Gironella




George Gissing




Ellen Glasgow




Rumer Godden




Gail Godwin




Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




Nikolai Gogol




William Golding




Oliver Goldsmith




Witold Gombrowicz




Ivan Goncharov




Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt




N. V. M. Gonzalez




Paul Goodman




Nadine Gordimer




Caroline Gordon




Mary Gordon




Maxim Gorky




Günter Grass




Shirley Ann Grau




Robert Graves




Alasdair Gray




Henry Green




Julien Green




Graham Greene




Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen




John Grisham




Frederick Philip Grove




Jessica Hagedorn




Radclyffe Hall




Jane Hamilton




Dashiell Hammett




Knut Hamsun




Peter Handke




James Hanley




Barry Hannah




Elizabeth Hardwick




Thomas Hardy




Wilson Harris




Jim Harrison




L. P. Hartley




Jaroslav HaŠek




Alfred Hauge




John Hawkes




Nathaniel Hawthorne




Bessie Head




Anne Hébert




Ursula Hegi




Verner von Heidenstam




Robert A. Heinlein




Joseph Heller




Mark Helprin




Ernest Hemingway




Frank Herbert




John Hersey




Hermann Hesse




Patricia Highsmith




Jamake Highwater




Oscar Hijuelos




Chester Himes




Rolando Hinojosa




S. E. Hinton




Edward Hoagland




Alice Hoffman




E. T. A. Hoffmann




Paul Horgan




Nick Hornby




Khaled Hosseini




William Dean Howells




W. H. Hudson




Victor Hugo




Zora Neale Hurston




Aldous Huxley




Joris-Karl Huysmans




John Irving




Kazuo Ishiguro




Henry James




P. D. James




Jean Paul




Gish Jen




Johannes V. Jensen




Sarah Orne Jewett




Ruth Prawer Jhabvala




Charles Johnson




Diane Johnson




Samuel Johnson




Uwe Johnson




Elizabeth Jolley




James Jones




Madison Jones




James Joyce




Ismail Kadare




Cynthia Kadohata




Franz Kafka




Anna Kavan




Yasunari Kawabata




Nikos Kazantzakis




Garrison Keillor




Gottfried Keller




William Melvin Kelley




Yashar Kemal




Thomas Keneally




William Kennedy




Jack Kerouac




Ken Kesey




Jamaica Kincaid




Stephen King




Barbara Kingsolver




Rudyard Kipling




Danilo Kiš




Heinrich von Kleist




John Knowles




Arthur Koestler




Tadeusz Konwicki




Jerzy Kosinski




Milan Kundera




Madame de La Fayette




Pär Lagerkvist




Selma Lagerlöf




Louis L’Amour




Nella Larsen




Margaret Laurence




Wendy Law-Yone




D. H. Lawrence




Halldór Laxness




John le Carré




Harper Lee




Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu




Ursula K. Le Guin




Rosamond Lehmann




Stanisław Lem




Elmore Leonard




Mikhail Lermontov




Alain-René Lesage




Doris Lessing




Primo Levi




C. S. Lewis




Matthew Gregory Lewis




Sinclair Lewis




Wyndham Lewis




Clarice Lispector




Penelope Lively




David Lodge




Jack London




Earl Lovelace




Malcolm Lowry




Robert Ludlum




Alison Lurie




Rose Macaulay




Cormac McCarthy




Mary McCarthy




Carson McCullers




Alice McDermott




Ross Macdonald




Joseph McElroy




Ian McEwan




Patrick McGinley




Thomas McGuane




Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis




Claude McKay




Hugh MacLennan




Terry McMillan




Larry McMurtry




David Madden




Naguib Mahfouz




Norman Mailer




Bernard Malamud




Eduardo Mallea




Sir Thomas Malory




David Malouf




André Malraux




Thomas Mann




Alessandro Manzoni




Marivaux




John P. Marquand




Paule Marshall




Roger Martin du Gard




Peter Matthiessen




Charles Robert Maturin




W. Somerset Maugham




François Mauriac




William Maxwell




Herman Melville




George Meredith




Dmitry Merezhkovsky




Prosper Mérimée




James A. Michener




Henry Miller




Sue Miller




Anchee Min




Yukio Mishima




Rohinton Mistry




Brian Moore




George Moore




Alberto Moravia




Wright Morris




Toni Morrison




Walter Mosley




Bharati Mukherjee




Haruki Murakami




Murasaki Shikibu




Iris Murdoch




Robert Musil




Walter Dean Myers




Vladimir Nabokov




V. S. Naipaul




R. K. Narayan




Gloria Naylor




Ngugi wa Thiong’o




Anaïs Nin




Frank Norris




Joyce Carol Oates




Edna O’Brien




Flann O’Brien




Kate O’Brien




Tim O’Brien




Flannery O’Connor




Kenzaburō Ōe




John O’Hara




Michael Ondaatje




Juan Carlos Onetti




George Orwell




Amos Oz




Cynthia Ozick




Emilia Pardo Bazán




Boris Pasternak




Ann Patchett




Walter Pater




Alan Paton




Gary Paulsen




Cesare Pavese




Thomas Love Peacock




Walker Percy




Ramón Pérez de Ayala




Benito Pérez Galdós




Jayne Anne Phillips




Robert Pinget




Luigi Pirandello




David Plante




Katherine Anne Porter




Chaim Potok




Anthony Powell




Dawn Powell




J. F. Powers




Richard Powers




Abbé Prévost




Reynolds Price




J. B. Priestley




V. S. Pritchett




Frederic Prokosch




Francine Prose




E. Annie Proulx




Marcel Proust




Manuel Puig




James Purdy




Alexander Pushkin




Barbara Pym




Thomas Pynchon




Raymond Queneau




Wilhelm Raabe




François Rabelais




Ann Radcliffe




Ayn Rand




Raja Rao




Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings




Ishmael Reed




Erich Maria Remarque




Mary Renault




Władysław Reymont




Jean Rhys




Anne Rice




Dorothy Richardson




Samuel Richardson




Mordecai Richler




Conrad Richter




Alain Robbe-Grillet




Elizabeth Madox Roberts




Marilynne Robinson




Romain Rolland




Jules Romains




Sinclair Ross




Henry Roth




Joseph Roth




Philip Roth




Jean-Jacques Rousseau




J. K. Rowling




Susanna Rowson




Gabrielle Roy




Salman Rushdie




Richard Russo




Ernesto Sábato




Françoise Sagan




Antoine de Saint-Exupéry




J. D. Salinger




James Salter




George Sand




José Saramago




William Saroyan




Nathalie Sarraute




May Sarton




Jean-Paul Sartre




Dorothy L. Sayers




Leonardo Sciascia




Sir Walter Scott




W. G. Sebald




Anna Seghers




Ousmane Sembène




Ramón José Sender




Mary Lee Settle




Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley




Carol Shields




Mikhail Sholokhov




Henryk Sienkiewicz




Leslie Marmon Silko




Frans Eemil Sillanpää




Alan Sillitoe




Ignazio Silone




Georges Simenon




William Gilmore Simms




Claude Simon




Upton Sinclair




Isaac Bashevis Singer




Andrei Sinyavsky




Josef Škvorecký




Jane Smiley




Zadie Smith




Tobias Smollett




C. P. Snow




Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn




Susan Sontag




Wole Soyinka




Muriel Spark




Christina Stead




Wallace Stegner




Gertrude Stein




John Steinbeck




Stendhal




Richard G. Stern




Laurence Sterne




Robert Louis Stevenson




Adalbert Stifter




Robert Stone




David Storey




Theodor Storm




Harriet Beecher Stowe




August Strindberg




Jesse Stuart




Theodore Sturgeon




William Styron




Italo Svevo




Graham Swift




Jonathan Swift




Amy Tan




Jun’ichirō Tanizaki




Booth Tarkington




William Makepeace Thackeray




Paul Theroux




J. R. R. Tolkien




Leo Tolstoy




Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa




Michel Tournier




Rose Tremain




William Trevor




Anthony Trollope




Ivan Turgenev




Scott Turow




Amos Tutuola




Mark Twain




Anne Tyler




Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo




Sigrid Undset




John Updike




Honoré d’Urfé




Leon Uris




Juan Valera




Ramón María del Valle-Inclán




Carl Van Vechten




Mario Vargas Llosa




Giovanni Verga




Jules Verne




Gore Vidal




Elio Vittorini




Voltaire




Kurt Vonnegut




John Wain




Alice Walker




David Foster Wallace




Edward Lewis Wallant




Joseph Wambaugh




Robert Penn Warren




Frank Waters




Evelyn Waugh




Fay Weldon




H. G. Wells




Eudora Welty




Franz Werfel




Glenway Wescott




Nathanael West




Paul West




Rebecca West




Edith Wharton




Patrick White




T. H. White




Colson Whitehead




John Edgar Wideman




Elie Wiesel




Marianne Wiggins




Oscar Wilde




Thornton Wilder




John A. Williams




A. N. Wilson




Angus Wilson




Ethel Wilson




Jeanette Winterson




P. G. Wodehouse




Larry Woiwode




Christa Wolf




Thomas Wolfe




Tom Wolfe




Virginia Woolf




Herman Wouk




Richard Wright




Wu Chengen




Wu Jingzi




A. B. Yehoshua




Frank Yerby




José Yglesias




Al Young




Marguerite Yourcenar




Yevgeny Zamyatin




Émile Zola




Long Fiction in the Ancient Greco-Roman World




Origins and Development of the Novel Before 1740




Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890




Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980




Postcolonial Long Fiction




Contemporary Long Fiction




African Long Fiction




The Australian Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Polish Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Czech Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Slovak Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Hungarian Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Serbian Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Croatian Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Slovenian Novel




Central and Southeastern European Long Fiction: The Macedonian Novel




Chinese Long Fiction




The English Novel




The European Novel




French Long Fiction to the 1850’s




French Long Fiction Since the 1850’s




German Long Fiction to the Mid-Nineteenth Century




German Long Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to World War I




German Long Fiction Since World War I




Irish Long Fiction




Italian Long Fiction




Japanese Long Fiction




Latin American Long Fiction




The Middle Eastern Novel




Russian Long Fiction




Scandinavian Long Fiction




South Asian Long Fiction




Spanish Long Fiction




African American Long Fiction




The American Novel




Asian American Long Fiction




Canadian Long Fiction




The Caribbean Novel




The Euro-American Immigrant Experience in Long Fiction




Jewish American Long Fiction




Latino Long Fiction




Native American Long Fiction




The Southern Novel




The Western Novel




The Academic Novel




The Bildungsroman




The Detective Novel




The Epistolary Novel




The Espionage Novel




Experimental Long Fiction




The Fantasy Novel




Feminist Long Fiction




Gay and Lesbian Long Fiction




The Gothic Novel




The Historical Novel




The Horror Novel




The Legal Novel




The Modern Novel




Naturalistic Long Fiction




The Novella




The Picaresque Novel




The Political Novel




The Postmodern Novel




Psychological Long Fiction




The Science-Fiction Novel




Self-Reflexive Long Fiction




Sports Long Fiction




Young Adult Long Fiction