A comprehensive survey of fiction from the classics of English literature to the best of the moderns. More than 2000 entries provide information on novelists from all countries where English is written - Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Philippines; summaries of the major novels; trends such as realism, naturalism, modernism, magic realism; particular types of novel from the Gothic novel to the campus novel; and popular genres from detective fiction to spy fiction and science fiction. A wide-ranging and authoritative Introduction surveys the history and theory of fiction. An aid for students and teachers of literature as well as all readers of fiction.
