The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world
of literature and popular culture. 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. For
writers such as Herman Melville, James Joyce or Harper Lee the
decision is not a difficult one. For Charles Dickens, Salman
Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, the choice is perhaps more difficult.
Following the style set with previous books in the 100 series, most
notably 100 Children’s Books and 100 Science Discoveries, each
author is given a concise biography and their major novel analysed
and then set in context with their other published work. Readers
can become ridiculously well-read in 224 pages. Authors included:
Alexandre Dumas, Daniel Defoe, Victor Hugo, Mary Shelly, Charles
Dickens, Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, Hilary Mantel, Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson,
Walter Scott, Lewis Carroll, JRR Tolkien, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel
Proust, Henry James, Harper Lee, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway,
Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Jules Verne, HG Wells, Virginia
Woolf, Leo Tolstoy, Louisa M. Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram
Stoker, John Steinbeck, CS Lewis, Chinua Achebe, Jack Kerouac, John
Le Carre, Arundhati Roy, Mila Kundera, Joseph Heller, JD Salinger,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Miguel Cervantes, Graham
Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Evelyn
Waugh, Robert Graves, Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, PG
Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, Hunter S. Thompson, Khaled Hosseini.
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