The Novel


Robinson Crusoe
Lolita
Great Expectations
Madame Bovary
Crime and Punishment
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Waves
Aspects of the Novel
The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
Don Quixote
Emma
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics)
The Novel: A Biography
To the Lighthouse
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
A.D. Aliwat
There was no great novel of the nineties. The last major books came out in the eighties, and they were Blood Meridian and then I’d say White Noise by Don DeLillo, who very well might have seen where everything was heading and whose work then articulated it all very well.
A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

Rikki Ducornet
Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it sublimates, precipitates, and quickens. House of Keys, it opens all our darkest doors. May the Pol Pot Persons of all genders and denominations take heed: to create a fictional world with rigor and passion, to imagine a character of any sex, place, time, or color and make it palpitate and quiver, to catapult it into the deepest forests of our most luminous reveries, i ...more
Rikki Ducornet, The Monstrous and the Marvelous

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