100 novels that changed the world
Salter, Colin, 1949-2023
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Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey recounted ancient Greece, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was a chivalric romance in Middle English, but it was not until the seventeenth century, when the European middle classes had money and leisure, that anything so frivolous as a novel could be sold for entertainment. Colin Salter traces the evolution of the novel from the earliest examples through to the postmodernist best-sellers of the 21st century. Rather than dwelling too long on the technical nuances of innovative writing style he has amassed 100 of the greatest novel writers and chosen their most significant work.
100 novels that changed the world / Colin Salter.
Salter, Colin, 1949-, author
London : Pavilion, 2023.
224 pages ; 24 cm
9780008599089 (hbk)
016.80883016.808
English
100 novels that changed the world
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